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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/15/1/16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/16
Title:
Vol 16 Letters outward
Scope & Content:
Volume of outgoing copy correspondence from William Bruce, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to various correspondents within the East India Company discussing financial, administrative and political matters relating to the running of the residency at Bushire. Particular attention throughou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1815-30 Dec 1815
Extent:
1 volume, 195 items (99 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/21
Title:
‘Vol 21 Letters inward’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence addressed to the Resident at Bushire, Captain William Bruce, and to James Dow, Acting Resident at Bushire. Correspondence is sent to the Resident by a range of individuals, including various secretaries to the Government in Bombay, representatives of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1819-31 Dec 1820
Extent:
1 volume, 95 items (62 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/23
Title:
Vol 23: Reports to the Government of Bombay respecting a British military expedition to the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence primarily between Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Bombay Government, and Captain Thomas Perronet Thompson. Other correspondents included in the volume are Major-General Lionel Smith; Mountstuart Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay; James Henderson, Se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1820 ?-1 Aug 1821
Extent:
1 volume, 29 items (120 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/40
Title:
'Book No. 46. 31 July 1826 to 19 February 1827'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, the Resident in the Persian Gulf, primarily to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to Government at Bombay and Lieutenant Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to the Court of Persia. The main subject of correspondence within the volume is the relationship betw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1826-19 Feb 1827
Extent:
1 volume, 156 items (140 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/45

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/45
Title:
Book No: 53 Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in this volume consists of letters from the Resident at Bushire (Lieutenant-Colonel Ephraim Gerrish Stannus; Captain David Wilson) and the Assistant Resident at Bushire (Samuel Hennell) mainly to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay (William Newnham); The Accountant Gener...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1827-1 Sep 1827
Extent:
1 volume (130 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/47
Title:
Vol 55 Letters outward
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters written by David Wilson, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf based at Bushire. The bulk of the letters are addressed to William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government in Bombay and John Wedderburn, Accountant General in Bombay. The letters discuss relations ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1828-21 Dec 1828
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/56
Title:
‘Letters outward’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters, many with copies of their enclosures, sent by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain Samuel Hennell, to Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government in Bombay. The letters deal with a range of subjects, as follows: The extent of the slave trade betw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1831-24 Dec 1831
Extent:
1 volume (67 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/77

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/77
Title:
Book 105: Letters inwards 1838
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a selection of correspondence sent from the Political Department of the Bombay Government to the Resident in the Persian Gulf during 1838; Samuel Hennell took up the position of Resident during that year. The subject matter covered includes the kidnapping of slaves from the B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1838-5 Dec 1838
Extent:
1 file, 6 items (16 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/83

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/83
Title:
Secret Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
The file consists of secret letters sent to Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf. The majority of this correspondence is from either the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], or the Secret Committee based at India House in London. These letters frequently contain enclosures (i.e. copies...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jan 1839-7 Dec 1839
Extent:

1 file (158 folios)