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032-000173250 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Bussorah, Asia

1. IOR/G/29/25, ff 7-21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 7-21
Title:
Correspondence of the East India Company with the Levant Company
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) with the Levant Company related to the right to trade at Bussorah [Basra, also spelled as Bussora]. The correspondence includes a copy of a letter to Mr Henry Grenville, His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]; copies of extracts from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1600-7 Mar 1765
Extent:
1 item (15 folios)

2. IOR/G/29/25, ff 22-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 22-30
Title:
Correspondence Related to the Trade in Mecca, Judda, Bussorah and Mocha
Scope & Content:
Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) with Lord Shelburne [William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne], Secretary of State for the Southern Department, related to the complaints of the Sheriff of Mecca [Sharīf of Mecca] with respect to the inhabitants of Mecca and Medina s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1763-10 Jan 1767
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

3. IOR/G/29/25, ff 31-110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 31-110
Title:
Correspondence Regarding the Naval Powers in the East Indies and the Gulph of Persia
Scope & Content:
Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) related to the request of naval assistance for the Company in order to use against its maritime enemies in the Gulph [Gulf]. The correspondence includes: A ‘Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Troubles in the Gulph of Persia [Iran].’ The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1767-30 Aug 1769
Extent:
1 item (80 folios)

4. IOR/G/29/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/15
Title:
Letters and Enclosures etc., Received from Gombroon
Scope & Content:
Two volumes containing a collection of letters and enclosures dispatched from Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbas, also written as Gomroon] Factory to ‘the Court of Directors for affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies’. Almost every letter includes the date it was...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Marathi
Date Range:
18 Feb 1703-25 Oct 1727
Extent:
2 volumes (270 folios)

5. IOR/G/29/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/22
Title:
Factory Records, Persia, Vol 22, Pts 1-4
Scope & Content:
These volumes contain the correspondence of the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] with the Court of Directors and Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the Company in London, as well as occasional correspondence with the Bacha of Bagdat [Pāshā of Baghdad], the British Ambassad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1784-22 Nov 1792
Extent:

4 volumes (804 folios)

6. 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)

7. IOR/G/29/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/18
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pts 1-2
Scope & Content:
These volumes contain letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 April 1725 and 25 August 1731. The letters describe the power struggle between Ashraf Sultan Ghilza'i and Shah Tahmasb II for supremacy in Persia, political and economic relations with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1725-25 Aug 1731
Extent:
2 volumes (239 folios)

8. IOR/G/29/19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/19
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1732-1752), Vols I-II
Scope & Content:
These two volumes contain letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 March 1732 and 13 February 1753. The letters contain material relating to the overthrow of the Safavid Dynasty, and the rise of the Afshar Dynasty in Persia [Iran]; Nadir Shah Afshar's...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1732-13 Feb 1753
Extent:
2 volumes (250 folios)

9. IOR/G/29/16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/16
Title:
Letters and Enclosures etc., Received from Gombroon
Scope & Content:
Two volumes in one slipcase containing a collection of letters and enclosures dispatched from Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbas] Factory to ‘the Court of Directors for affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies’. Almost every letter includes the date it was received...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1728-20 Jun 1744
Extent:

2 volumes (291 folios)

10. 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)