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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Bussora, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 200-448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 200-448
Title:
The Indus steam flotilla, Scinde and Luss, Afghanistan and Bussora
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 38 of 1840, dated 22 June 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-90 and are dated 10 August 1839 to 22 June 1840. Enclosure numbers 4, 6-8, 10, 12-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1840
Extent:
1 item (249 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/482, ff 187-192

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/482, ff 187-192
Title:
Bussora Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 63 of 1854, dated 28 October 1854. The enclosures are numbered 3-5 and are dated 27-28 October 1854. The papers relate to arrangements for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Oct 1854
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 1a-11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 1a-11
Title:
Bagdad Pachalic Affairs
Scope & Content:
The item consists of letters discussing an uprising in Bussorah [Basra] and Bagdad [Baghdad] involving the Bani Tamim. The correspondents are Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Bagdad; I M Dalrymple, Under-Secretary to the Government of India in the For...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1854-1 Jan 1855
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/8
Title:
'LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 31. JAN. 1793 TO 21. JUNE 1803 VOL 8'
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises letters to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company from the Resident and Factor at Bussora [Basra], Samuel Manesty. The letters are dated 31 January 1793-21 June 1803 and the date each letter was received is recorded on the back of it...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1793-21 Jun 1803
Extent:
1 volume (609 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/9
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 7. MAR. 1803 TO 31. MAR. 1811. MR MANESTY & HIS ASSISTANT. VOL. 9.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, mostly to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and mainly from the Resident at Busssora [Basra, also spelled Bussarah in this volume], Samuel Manesty, and the following, successively in temporary charge of the Bussora Residency (a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1803-6 Aug 1810
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/68/64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/64
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Jean Raymond to Govenor-General of Isle de France, Capitaine Général De Caen
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter in French from Jean Raymond to the Governor-General of the Isle de France [Mauritius] Capitaine Général De Caen [Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen], of 31 January 1809. This letter was part of the papers seized from French courier Jean Robbio at Bushire by Stephen Babington, in cha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
31 Jan 1809
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/76/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/102
Title:
Trade Reports on Bagdad and Bussora
Scope & Content:
This item contains two trade reports compiled by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]: 1. Tables displaying goods imported to Bagdad from Bussora [Basra], other parts of the Ottoman Empire, and Persia [Iran] and their approximate annual value in piastres. Attached are notes concerning ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c. 1799
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/76/297

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/297
Title:
Letter from Samuel Manesty to Lord Wellesley
Scope & Content:
This item contains copies of two letters: 1. A letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bussora and dated 10 September 1803. The letter concerns the threat from the Whahabees [Wahhābī movement] to Bussora and to line...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jun 1803-10 Sep 1803
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/162
Title:
File 757/1909 'Persian Gulf:- Turkey and Turkish aggression (Occupation of Zakhnuniyeh Island. Attitude in piracy cases. Mudirs at Zubara, Odaid and Wakra) British Relations with Turkey in Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Turkish occupation of Zakhnuniyah Island, the Ottoman attitude towards piracy cases, and the appointment of officials in Zubara, Odeid and Wakra. The discussion in the volume relates to the Turkish...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1909-1911
Extent:
1 volume (245 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B165
Title:
Report (with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as Termini of proposed Bagdad Railway, by Captain E W S Mahon, RE July 1905
Scope & Content:
The report, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled by Captain Edward Willoughby Sandys Mahon, Royal Engineer on 24 July 1905 to identify places suitable as termini of the Baghdad Railway. He advises Bussorah [Basra] as the best place, for strategic and commercial reasons. The r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1905
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)