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1. IOR/R/15/1/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/49
Title:
Vol 59: Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters received by David Wilson, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay, and Charles Norris, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay. The letters cover the following subjects: the concerns of Mahomed B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1829-21 Jul 1829
Extent:
1 volume, 3 items (18 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/168
Title:
Vol 255 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 Felix Jones), H. L. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1857-18 Dec 1861
Extent:
1 volume (184 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/90
Title:
‘Vol 124 Secret letters inward and outward’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to the crisis in Britain’s relations with Persia in the early 1840s, in the wake of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839-42) and the siege of Herat (1838), which led to British occupation of the island of Karrak [Jazīreh-ye Khārk] in the Persian Gulf. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1840-8 Feb 1843
Extent:
1 volume (72 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/749

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/749
Title:
Oil Concessions
Scope & Content:
The file consists of five volumes containing copies of oil concessions in the Persian Gulf region and correspondence between British officials related to them. 1) Persian Gulf - Concessions in Bahrein [Bahrain], Kuwait &c. (sic) Correspondence 1932 to July, 1933 (folios 1-140); 2) Qatr [Q...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-c 1964
Extent:

5 volumes (306 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/99

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/99
Title:
Letters outward
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters sent by the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, mainly to J P Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, in 1843. Although Captain Samuel Hennell was Resident at this time, letters dated January to October 1843 were sent by Lieutenant Col...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Dec 1842-30 Dec 1843
Extent:
1 volume (100 folios)

6. 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)

7. IOR/R/15/1/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/48
Title:
Vol 58 Native Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file contains translations of letters sent to David Wilson, the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. The letters contained in the file are from Britain's native agents (based at Bahrain, Muscat, Sharqah [Sharjah] and Lingah) and from several local rulers including the Chief of Bushire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1828-17 Jul 1829
Extent:
1 volume (95 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/91
Title:
‘Vol 125 Native letters inward’
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises copies of letters sent to the Residency (with some addressed to the Resident, Captain Samuel Hennell) by the various government agents, including: Moollah Hussain, the agent at Sharjah; Khojah Reuben, the agent at Muscat; the Government agent at Bahrain [referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1840-27 Nov 1841
Extent:
1 volume (133 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/157
Title:
‘Vol 224 1856/57 Bahrain; Abu Dhabi; Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah; Hamriya; Muscat and Bandar `Abbas; Slave Trade’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to a number of subjects, listed below. The principal correspondents throughout are Commander (James) Felix Jones, initially Acting Resident, then Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1855-21 Mar 1857
Extent:
2 volumes, 96 items (309 folios)

10. 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)