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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar, 1841-1914

1. IOR/R/15/6/143-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/143-144
Title:
File 6: Zanzibar
Scope & Content:
The Zanzibar files of the Political Agency, Muscat concern political affairs linking the Sultanate of Zanzibar with the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The main themes are political intrigues and unrest designed to bring about the deposition of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and his replacement w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1880-1905
Extent:
2 files (162 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/124
Title:
Vol 167: Miscellaneous Letters Inward and Outward
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters written and received by Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, in 1850. Other correspondents include Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, and Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government at Bombay. The topics covered in th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1850-18 Nov 1850
Extent:
1 volume, 7 items (18 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/123
Title:
Vol 166: 1850 Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The file is comprised of correspondence and reports sent to and from the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, relating to reports of slaves being imported from Africa to the Persian and Arabian coasts of the Gulf. Intelligence reports are sent to Hennell by his agents...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1850-12 Dec 1850
Extent:
1 file, 16 items (38 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/93

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/93
Title:
‘Secret Letters Outward’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of letters sent under the heading ‘Secret Department’ from the Residency in the Persian Gulf (either from the Resident, Captain Samuel Hennell, or the Assistant Resident, T Mackenzie), to the Chief Secretary to the Government Bombay, throughout 1840 and 1841. The princi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1840-30 Dec 1840
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/171

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/171
Title:
Vol 259 Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The volume's correspondence and other papers document British officials' attempts to suppress the slave trade in the Gulf, and their procedures for dealing with liberated slaves. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Captain (James) Felix Jones)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
18 Nov 1857-30 Nov 1861
Extent:
1 volume (237 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/112
Title:
‘Book 155 1848’ Vol 155 Letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, from Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay in the Political Department, Bombay Castle written between July and December 1848. Arthur Malet’s letters contain ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1848-21 Dec 1848
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/89
Title:
‘Letters inward; `diaries of Captain Hamerton’s proceedings at Sharjah’’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers received by the Residency in the Persian Gulf during 1840. The principal correspondents are Commodore George Barnes Brucks, Commanding the Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, Commander Anthony H Nott of the Honourable Company’s Brigantine Tigris,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1839-19 Dec 1840
Extent:
1 file (114 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/134
Title:
‘Vol 182 1852/53 Persia; Slave Trade; Muscat; Commerce; miscellaneous’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of incoming and outgoing correspondence for the Persian Gulf Residency. At the start of 1852 Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell is Resident, before being superseded by Captain Arnold Kemball. Correspondence in the volume falls under the following headings: Persia, Basra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1852-23 Nov 1852
Extent:
1 volume, 38 items (57 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/96

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/96
Title:
‘Book 131’ Secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in 1841, mainly from J P Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. At this period, the British Residency was based temporarily on the island of Karrack. The letters to the Reside...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1840 - 27 Dec 1841
Extent:
1 file (119 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/163
Title:
British Agents
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the employment and activities of British Agents responsible to the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire. The correspondents include: Felix Jones, British Resident at Bushire; the Government of Bombay; Captain Christopher Palmer Rigby, British Consul an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1857-27 Jan 1862
Extent:
1 volume (318 folios)