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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. IOR/R/15/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/10
Title:
Vol 10 Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
A volume of letters sent outwards. Most of the correspondence is from Nicholas Hankey Smith, Resident at Bushire, mainly to various company officials in India or elsewhere in the Gulf and surrounding regions. Correspondence is also frequently sent to Jaffer Ali Khan [Ja‘afar ‘Alī Khān], the Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
3 Nov 1806-6 Dec 1808
Extent:

2 volumes, 314 items (212 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/11
Title:
VOL 11 LETTERS INWARD AND OUTWARD
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters received by the Resident at Bushire. For most of the period covered by this volume the Acting Resident at Bushire was Lieutenant William Bruce. The two other occupants of the Residency during this period were Andrew Jukes, Surgeon, and Stephen Babington. Corresponden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1808-22 Dec 1811
Extent:
1 volume, 98 items (48 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/15
Title:
Book No: 15 (Inward) for the years 1813-1814
Scope & Content:
The volume contains mainly letters addressed to Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident at Bushire at the time. Bruce was Acting Resident until 1812, but in this volume he is still often referred to as Acting Resident. A few letters are written to James Orton, Assistant Surgeon at Bushire, who took te...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1813-29 Nov 1814
Extent:
1 volume, 174 items (149 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/27
Title:
Vol 27 Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters outward by John MacLeod, Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, between 12 December 1822 and 1 September 1823. The majority of letters are sent to British officials at Basrah, Tehran and Tabriz, including Captain Robert Taylor and Major Henry Willock, and to British nava...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1822-1 Sep 1823
Extent:
1 volume, 37 items (23 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/758

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/758
Title:
Photocopy of Letters Outward and Inward
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters sent outwards (between 1 February 1789 and 18 July 1796), and inwards (between 20 October 1792 and 13 April 1798) from or to the Bushire Residency; the position of Resident at Bushire being initially held by Charles Watkins, but he was relieved in December 1792 by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1789-13 Apr 1798
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)