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1541. IOR/G/29/25, ff 153-199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 153-199
Title:
Letters and Enclosures from the East India Company’s Residents at Bussorah
Scope & Content:
Copies of letters and enclosures from the East India Company’s (EIC) Residents at Bussorah [Basra], William Digges Latouche and then later, Samuel Manesty, respectively, to the Court of Directors of the Company. The correspondence covers the following matters: Latouche reporting on settling the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1784-24 May 1785
Extent:
1 item (47 folios)

1542. IOR/G/29/32, ff 483-508

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 483-508
Title:
Papers Relating to Disputes and Relations between the Bussora [Basra] Residency and the Pasha of Bagdad [Baghdad]
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to disputes between the Bacha of Bagdad [Pasha of Baghdad] and the Residency at Bussora [Basra] which resulted in the removal of the East India Company Factory from Bussora to Grain [Kuwait] and the establishment of a Residency at Baghad in 1798, with Harford Jones as Resident. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 May 1794-3 Jul 1798
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)

1543. IOR/G/29/18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/18
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pts 1-2
Scope & Content:
These volumes contain letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 April 1725 and 25 August 1731. The letters describe the power struggle between Ashraf Sultan Ghilza'i and Shah Tahmasb II for supremacy in Persia, political and economic relations with the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1725-25 Aug 1731
Extent:
2 volumes (239 folios)

1544. IOR/G/29/19

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/19
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1732-1752), Vols I-II
Scope & Content:
These two volumes contain letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 March 1732 and 13 February 1753. The letters contain material relating to the overthrow of the Safavid Dynasty, and the rise of the Afshar Dynasty in Persia [Iran]; Nadir Shah Afshar's...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1732-13 Feb 1753
Extent:
2 volumes (250 folios)

1545. IOR/G/29/32, ff 515-525

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 515-525
Title:
Correspondence Relating to Sir Harford Jones's Position as Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between Charles Arbuthnot, Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire; Lord Castlereagh [Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh], President of the Board of Control for India; Jacob Bosanquet (and his successor, Charles Grant), Chairman of the Court of Directors; and Sir Harford Jones, Resident...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1805-3 Apr 1806
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

1546. IOR/G/29/5/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/5/3
Title:
Diary and Consultations of Mr John Horne, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1729 and ending July 1730
Scope & Content:
The item is in the form of a diary (ff 80-120), which contains records of consultations at the Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory. The Chief Agent, John Horne, and the Factory Council members, including William Cordeaux, Edward Clift and William May, headed the consultations. They recorded the d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1729-26 Jul 1730
Extent:
1 item (40 folios)

1547. IOR/G/29/16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/16
Title:
Letters and Enclosures etc., Received from Gombroon
Scope & Content:
Two volumes in one slipcase containing a collection of letters and enclosures dispatched from Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbas] Factory to ‘the Court of Directors for affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies’. Almost every letter includes the date it was received...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1728-20 Jun 1744
Extent:

2 volumes (291 folios)

1548. IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers relating to the first years of the East India Company Residency in Bagdad [Baghdad, also spelled Bagdat in this volume]. The first section (folios 4-153) consists of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798-20 May 1801
Extent:
1 item (511 folios)

1549. IOR/G/29/25, ff 290-311

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 290-311
Title:
Correspondence Related to the Mission of Mirza Mahdi Ali Khan to Impede the Advance of Zeman Shah into India
Scope & Content:
The correspondence is about the mission of Mirza Mehedy Ali Khan [Mīrzā Mahdī ‘Alī Khān, several spellings appear in this part], Resident at Bushire [Bushehr] to the Persian Court. It includes copies of letters from him to the East India Company (EIC) reporting mainly on his diplomatic efforts t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Dec 1798-26 Jan 1799
Extent:
1 item (22 folios)

1550. IOR/G/29/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/6
Title:
Diaries, Consultations, and Accounts of John Geekie, Esq, and Nathaniel Whitwell, Esq, Agents of the East India Company at Gambroon [Bandar-e ʿAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing 1 August 1737 and ending 31 August 1746
Scope & Content:
Diaries, consultations, and accounts of the East India Company merchants in Persia [Iran], specifically factories at Gambroon [Bandar-e ʿAbbās, Laristan, Iran], written and signed by John Geekie (Agent and Council) and Nathaniel Whitwell (succeeding Agent and Council) respectively, countersigned...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1737-31 Aug 1746
Extent:
1 volume (346 folios)