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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/15/1/10-37

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)

3. IOR/R/15/1/38-118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/38-118
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire: correspondence received and sent
Scope & Content:
The records consist of separate volumes of letters inward and outward; secret letters inward and outward; and 'native letters' inward and outward (also referred to as 'translation books': letters from Native Agents at Bahrain, Shiraz, Sharjah, Muscat, and elsewhere, and local rulers and official...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1826-1849
Extent:
81 files and volumes (7642 folios)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. IOR/R/15/1/424

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/424
Title:
File 35/101 VI A 64 Miscellaneous Muscat papers
Scope & Content:
Correspondence mainly relating to the collection of finances. Non-payment by certain tribes on the Batinah Coast is identified as a threat to the revenue of the Muscat State and the visit of a sloop or flying boat to these regions is recommended. Correspondents include the Political Agent, Musca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1933-15 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 volume (24 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/431

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/431
Title:
‘File 35/106 (A 43) Exclusive Treaty with Masqat’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence, chiefly exchanged between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Major Stuart George Knox, and the Political Agent at Muscat, Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Arthur Edward Benn, on British policy with regard to the Sultan of Muscat’s [Taymūr bin Fa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1913-12 Jan 1919
Extent:
1 volume (21 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/432

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/432
Title:
Persian representation at Muscat
Scope & Content:
This file includes correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political Agent at Muscat. There are also correspondence with Walter Beaupré Townley, Minister to Persia; Muhammad Amin Beg [Muḥammad Amīn Beg], the Turk; the Commissioner of Sind, Karachi; Edward Gelson...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
5 Jun 1914-23 Jul 1921
Extent:
1 file (119 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/448
Title:
‘File 35/137 I (A 57) Muscat budget’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of various budget reports for the State of Muscat, forwarded by the Political Agent Muscat to the Political Resident during the period July 1927 to March 1932. The list of reports sent to the Political Resident are as follows: Six-month statement of actual revenues and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1927-13 May 1932
Extent:
1 volume (235 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/449

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/449
Title:
‘File 35/137 II (A 61) Muscat state budget’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises submissions of monthly statements of the revenue and expenditure of the Muscat State for the period April 1932 to March 1933; and quarterly submissions of statements on the progress of loans and debts, along with the cash balance of the Muscat Treasury for the same period. A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1932-16 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 volume (184 folios)