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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Resident, Bussora, 1778-1810 Digitised Content No

1. IOR/L/PS/9/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/9
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 7. MAR. 1803 TO 31. MAR. 1811. MR MANESTY & HIS ASSISTANT. VOL. 9.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, mostly to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and mainly from the Resident at Busssora [Basra, also spelled Bussarah in this volume], Samuel Manesty, and the following, successively in temporary charge of the Bussora Residency (a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1803-6 Aug 1810
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

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)