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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Resident, Bussora, 1778-1810

11. IOR/F/4/418/10306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/418/10306
Title:
‘Expense of presents incurred by Mr Rich the Resident at Bagdad’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay. It concerns the amount spent on presents by the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency, and includes a statement showing this expenditure since 1798, along with instructions f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1809-16 Jan 1813
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

12. IOR/F/4/448/10771

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/448/10771
Title:
‘Application from Lt. E. H. Bellasis of the Engineers for some remuneration for the duties he performed as Acting Resident at Bussorah during the absence of Mr Manesty in the year 1805.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes, orders, and memoranda cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. It concerns the application from Lieutenant Edward Hutchins Bellasis, of the Corps of Engineers in the Bombay Army, for remuneratio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1803-19 Oct 1813
Extent:
1 item (35 folios)

13. IOR/G/29/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/23
Title:
Factory Records, Persia, Vol 23
Scope & Content:
This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] between 22 November 1792 and 11 January 1799, and includes material relating to: The negotiations between the Factor, Harford Jones, and the Bacha of Bagdad [Pāshā of Baghdad, also spelt Bagdat in the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1792-11 Jan 1799
Extent:
1 volume (747 folios)

14. IOR/G/29/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/24
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia received from Bassora, 1799-1811
Scope & Content:
Originals and duplicates of correspondence, comprising secret letters, excerpts of reports, schedules, translated letters and transcripts in original languages (Ottoman Turkish and French), in 331 enclosures received from Bassora [Basra, Iraq] and addressed to the Secret Department. Papers relate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
13 Jan 1799-18 Dec 1811
Extent:
1 volume (767 folios)

15. IOR/G/29/25, ff 143-152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 143-152
Title:
French Naval Activities in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Extracts of letters from William Digges Latouche, the East India Company’s (EIC) Resident at Bussorah [Basra], to the Company’s Court of Directors reporting on French activities in the Persian Gulph [Gulf]. In particular, their capture of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat’s ship bound at Catiffe [Qatif...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Oct 1781-31 Jul 1784
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

16. IOR/G/29/25, ff 153-199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 153-199
Title:
Letters and Enclosures from the East India Company’s Residents at Bussorah
Scope & Content:
Copies of letters and enclosures from the East India Company’s (EIC) Residents at Bussorah [Basra], William Digges Latouche and then later, Samuel Manesty, respectively, to the Court of Directors of the Company. The correspondence covers the following matters: Latouche reporting on settling the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1784-24 May 1785
Extent:
1 item (47 folios)

17. IOR/G/29/25, ff 200-289

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 200-289
Title:
‘Report on the British Trade with Persia and Arabia.’
Scope & Content:
Extract of Bombay Commercial Consultations prepared by Charles Walking, the Secretary to the Court of Directors, in which he includes an enclosure from the Resident and joint Factor at Bussora [Basra] and from the Resident at Bushire [Bushehr], Samuel Manesty and Harford Jones respectively. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1790-22 Jan 1791
Extent:
1 item (90 folios)

18. IOR/G/29/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/28
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter of 2 Sep 1806: copies of correspondence of Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bushire, relating to his political proceedings in Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mostly of correspondence, with enclosures, from Samuel Manesty, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Richard Colley Wellesley, Governor-General of India, Fort William. The letters concern Manesty's unauthorised diplomatic mission to the Court of the Shah of Persia ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1803-15 Sep 1806
Extent:
1 volume (287 folios)

19. IOR/G/29/29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/29
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter of 2 Sep 1806: Copies of Correspondence of Mr Lovett, Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of correspondence, intelligence reports, diary extracts, and memoranda relating to the appointment, service, and conduct of Jonathon Henry Lovett (1778-1805) as Resident in Bushire [Būshehr]. The principal subjects covered are: Lovett's instructions to deliver a lette...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1802-2 Sep 1806
Extent:
1 volume (202 folios)

20. IOR/G/29/32, ff 483-508

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 483-508
Title:
Papers Relating to Disputes and Relations between the Bussora [Basra] Residency and the Pasha of Bagdad [Baghdad]
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to disputes between the Bacha of Bagdad [Pasha of Baghdad] and the Residency at Bussora [Basra] which resulted in the removal of the East India Company Factory from Bussora to Grain [Kuwait] and the establishment of a Residency at Baghad in 1798, with Harford Jones as Resident. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1794-3 Jul 1798
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)