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1. 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)

2. IOR/R/15/1/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/70
Title:
Book 96: Letters Inward 1837
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent during 1837 to Captain Samuel Hennell, the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf. It primarily concerns the operations of the Indian Navy in the Persian Gulf; the movement of ships, the transfer of officers, and the payment of allowances. Major topics cov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jan 1837-14 Aug 1837
Extent:
1 file, (44 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/76
Title:
Letters Outward 1837
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters sent outwards from the British Residency in the Persian Gulf by Samuel Hennell (the Resident), and Thomas Mackenzie (Acting Assistant in Charge of the Residency). The main recipient being John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Political Department of the Bombay Gover...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1838-28 Dec 1838
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/94
Title:
‘Book 128’ Letters outward
Scope & Content:
All letters in the file are from the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at his Residency on the Island of Karrack [Khārk, Jazīreh-ye] and are addressed mainly to the British Government in Bombay. Many of the Resident’s letters include extracts from reports submitted to him by the Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Jan 1841-23 Dec 1841
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/95

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/95
Title:
'Book 130' Letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains: Letters exchanged between the British Government in London, the British Government of India and the Bombay Government, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf and the British Agent Muscat, September 1840 to February 1841 about alleged French demands on the East African territ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1840-29 Oct 1841
Extent:
1 file (40 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/97
Title:
'Book 133' Secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains an exchange of letters between British Government officials in India and London, copied to Lieutenant H D Robertson (Officiating British Resident in the Persian Gulf) for his information and guidance. The letters often refer to the regular reports submitted by the British Resid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1841-15 Dec 1842
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/98
Title:
Vol 134 Secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The volume contains three letters and a company circular received by the British Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, from: a British company in Baghdad advertising its new overland postal service in Arabia (folios 1A-3), Commander Porter reporting on his sea patrol of the Persian Gulf in Ja...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1842-14 Jun 1843
Extent:
1 volume, 3 items (6 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/100
Title:
'Book 140 1843' letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Assistant British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, who was in charge of the Persian Gulf Residency at Bushire, from August to October 1843. Later letters were received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1843-2 Dec 1843
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/101
Title:
'Book 141 1844-1849' secret letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, from the Government of Bombay, between 1843 and 1848. Some correspondents address him as Major Hennell rather than Captain Hennell. A few of the letters received in 1843 are a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1843-14 Dec 1848
Extent:
1 file (111 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/103

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/103
Title:
'Old index Book No 143 From January To Dec' Vol 143 Letters outward
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of letters sent by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, mainly to J P Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, in 1844. The letters from the British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to the British Governme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1844-31 Dec 1844
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)