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1. IOR/R/15/1/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3
Title:
Vol 3 Letters Outward (from Bushire)
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters sent outwards from the Residency in Bushire between 1778 and 1787. The majority of the letters are sent to East India Company officials at Bussora [Basra] and Bombay. Letters are also sent to numerous ship captains and a limited number are sent to local rulers. The letters...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1778-22 Sep 1787
Extent:
1 volume, 252 items (180 pages)

2. IOR/R/15/1/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/4
Title:
Vol 4 Letters inward
Scope & Content:
This volume is a letter book which is comprised of contemporaneous copies of letters received at the Residency at Bushire between 1779 and 1787. Most of the letters are from East India Company officials at Bussora [Basra] and Bombay. Many of the letters from Bombay also include enclosed letters ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1778-28 Jan 1787
Extent:
1 volume, 133 items (61 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/13
Title:
Vol 13 Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises 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 three other occupants of the Residency during this period were Lieutenant Robert Taylor, James Orton, and Thomas Flower...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1810-6 Aug 1813
Extent:
1 volume, 191 items (145 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/29
Title:
Vol 29, 30, 32, 33: Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence addressed to the Resident in the Persian Gulf in 1823. Initially, Captain John Macleod fills the role of Resident, but he is replaced following his death by Lieutenant-Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus towards the end of the year. This file is made up of corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1823-11 Dec 1823
Extent:
1 volume, 11 items (57 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/32
Title:
Vol 34: Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of contemporaneous copies of outward letters from the Bushire Residency. Most of the letters are written by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Ephraim Gerrish Stannus. A small number of letters are written by the Assistant Surgeon at Bushire, James Pringle Riach, who was temp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1824-21 Jun 1824
Extent:
1 volume, 105 items (75 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/33
Title:
Vol 35: Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters sent out by Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, the Resident in the Persian Gulf, and James Pringle Riach, the officer placed in charge of the Bushire Residency during his absences; the Resident is required to make a number of trips to the Arabian Coast during the period cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1824-10 Jun 1825
Extent:
1 volume, 148 items (142 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/34
Title:
Vol 36: Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence addressed to the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Ephraim Gerrish Stannus. The subject matter covered includes British trade in the Persian Gulf, the settling of disputes between signatories of the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf 1820, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Jul 1824-2 Dec 1824
Extent:
1 volume, 14 items (80 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/42
Title:
'Book No. 49'
Scope & Content:
The volume of private and secret letters contains correspondence from successive Residents in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, including Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Captain David Wilson, Dr John MacNeil, Lieutenant Samuel Hennell and David Arnold Blane. The correspondence is to William Newnham,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1827-11 Feb 1836
Extent:
1 volume (96 folios)

9. 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)

10. 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)