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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name President and Governor of Bombay in Council, 1662-1947

1. IOR/R/15/1/1-5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/1-5
Title:
Letters Sent and Received by the Bushire Residency
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain copies of correspondence sent to and from the Residency at Bushire, which was established on 12 April 1763 following the conclusion of a trade agreement with the Shaikh of Bushire. The Residency went into temporary abeyance from 1769 to 1775, owing to a deterioration in both ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1763-1803
Extent:
5 volumes (516 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/6-9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/6-9
Title:
Bushire Diaries
Scope & Content:
The first two volumes bear the original title 'Diary of the Proceedings of the Resident at the Honourable Company's Factory at Bushire'. The volumes consist of chronological diary entries containing transcripts of correspondence sent and received, and notes on the arrival and departure of vesse...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1803-1807
Extent:
4 volumes (612 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/10-37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/10-37
Title:
Letters Received and Sent by the Bushire Residency
Scope & Content:
The volumes contain transcribed copies of letters received and sent by the Residency at Bushire, arranged separately in roughly annual volumes. There is almost complete coverage of both inward and outward correspondence for the years 1806-1826, but a number of volumes are incomplete. The corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1806-1826
Extent:
28 volumes (2757 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/41
Title:
'Book 47: 1826-1827'
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters and enclosures inwards from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, to Captain Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire between 1826 and 1827. There are letters relating to Shaikh ‘Abd al-Rasūl Khān, the former Governor o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
3 Nov 1826-28 Apr 1827
Extent:
1 file, 9 items (33 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/R/15/1/54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/54
Title:
‘Vol 69 Letters Outward’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence sent by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain David Wilson. Most of the recipients of the letters are officials of the Government of Bombay, including Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Wedderburn, Accountant General, Major Ge...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1830-12 Dec 1830
Extent:
1 volume (437 pages)

7. IOR/R/15/1/58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/58
Title:
Vols 75 and 76: Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
This file consists of contemporaneous copies of outgoing letters from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The Resident at this time was David Anderson Blane. Recipients of the Resident's letters include: Captain John Campbell, Assistant in Charge of the British Mission in Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1832-17 Sep 1832
Extent:
1 volume (26 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/60
Title:
Vol 78: Miscellaneous Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
This file consists almost entirely of letters received by the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. The Resident at this time was David Anderson Blane. The principal correspondents are the following: Commodore William Sowden Collinson, Commander of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf; Charles N...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1832-24 Sep 1832
Extent:
1 volume (28 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/65

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/65
Title:
Letters inward
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters from the Government of Bombay to the Residency in the Persian Gulf at Bushire. Correspondents include Charles Norris, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, and William Henry Wathen, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. The recipients are David Anderson Blane, R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1834-12 Sep 1834
Extent:
1 volume, 7 items (25 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/73

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/73
Title:
Letters Inward
Scope & Content:
A collection of letters received by the Acting Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire. Two letters are from Edward M Wood, Secretary to Government, Bombay. The first contains copies of letters between Wood and Charles Malcolm, Superintendent of the Indian Navy, concerning the ship the Hugh Lindsay...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1837-19 Aug 1837
Extent:
1 volume, 8 items (16 folios)