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61. IOR/L/PS/9/70/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/128
Title:
Copy of a Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in camp near Aher, to the Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in camp near Aher [Ahar], to the Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], Mountstuart Elphinstone, of 10 September 1826. In the letter Willock praises the Resident at Bushire [Būshehr], Colonel Ephriam Gerrish Stannus, for his co-op...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1825
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/9/76/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/4
Title:
Letters from William Hornby to William Digges Latouche
Scope & Content:
Two letters from William Hornby, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], to William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra]. The first letter, dated 2 March 1781, reports the presence of French ships near Madras [Chennai], the safe arrival in port of China country ships [local vessels trading with C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1781-3 Mar 1781
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

63. IOR/L/PS/9/76/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/5
Title:
Letters from William Hornby to William Digges Latouche
Scope & Content:
Two letters from William Hornby, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], to William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra]. The first letter, dated 2 March 1781, reports the presence of French ships near Madras [Chennai], the safe arrival in port of China country ships [local vessels] and East Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1781-3 Mar 1781
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/9/76/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/100
Title:
Letter from Sir William Sidney Smith to John Barker. Letters from Jonathan Duncan to Harford Jones and Samuel Manesty
Scope & Content:
This item contains two letters with enclosures: 1. A copy of a letter from Sir William Sidney Smith, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Levant, to John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, sent from HMS Tigre off Limasol [Limassol] and dated 12 October 1799. The letter concerns difficulties...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Oct 1799-16 Oct 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/9/76/208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/208
Title:
Correspondence of Harford Jones with J A Grant, Jonathan Duncan and Lord Elgin
Scope & Content:
This item contains copies of three letters: 1. A letter from J A Grant, Sub-Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 17 October 1801. Grant reports that Jones’s letters to the Governor of Bombay concerning ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1801-9 Dec 1801
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/10/856/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/856/3
Title:
File 5015/1919 Pt 3 'Persia: Revision of Customs Tariff'
Scope & Content:
This item comprises: deciphered telegrams; correspondence; covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; and India Office draft telegrams, draft letters, minu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Aug 1919-16 Jun 1923
Extent:
1 item (155 folios)

67. IOR/R/15/1/1-5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1-5
Title:
Letters Sent and Received by the Bushire Residency
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain copies of correspondence sent to and from the Residency at Bushire, which was established on 12 April 1763 following the conclusion of a trade agreement with the Shaikh of Bushire. The Residency went into temporary abeyance from 1769 to 1775, owing to a deterioration in both ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1763-1803
Extent:
5 volumes (516 folios)

68. IOR/R/15/1/6-9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/6-9
Title:
Bushire Diaries
Scope & Content:
The first two volumes bear the original title 'Diary of the Proceedings of the Resident at the Honourable Company's Factory at Bushire'. The volumes consist of chronological diary entries containing transcripts of correspondence sent and received, and notes on the arrival and departure of vesse...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1803-1807
Extent:
4 volumes (612 folios)

69. IOR/R/15/1/10-37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/10-37
Title:
Letters Received and Sent by the Bushire Residency
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain transcribed copies of letters received and sent by the Residency at Bushire, arranged separately in roughly annual volumes. There is almost complete coverage of both inward and outward correspondence for the years 1806-1826, but a number of volumes are incomplete. The corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1806-1826
Extent:
28 volumes (2757 folios)

70. IOR/R/15/1/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/41
Title:
'Book 47: 1826-1827'
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters and enclosures inwards from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, to Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire between 1826 and 1827. There are letters relating to Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān, the former Governor o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
3 Nov 1826-28 Apr 1827
Extent:
1 file, 9 items (33 folios)