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6791. IOR/G/29/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/36
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia to the Secret Department, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises a single packet addressed to the Secret Department, containing transcripts and supplementary duplicate copies of secret letters, excerpts of intelligence reports, itineraries, travel accounts, translated diplomatic letters, treaties, royal edicts or firmaun [farmān], and tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1809-12 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 volume (362 folios)

6792. IOR/G/29/25, ff 452-478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 452-478
Title:
Home Correspondence of the East India Company in Relation to its Naval Force in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) in relation to its naval force in the Gulph [Gulf]. The correspondence includes duplicate copies of the ‘Charges and Losses sustained in the Gulph of Persia [Iran]’; duplicate copies of ‘An Account of Woollens exported for Persia’; and letters ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1769-17 Mar 1769
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)

6793. IOR/G/29/25, ff 22-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 22-30
Title:
Correspondence Related to the Trade in Mecca, Judda, Bussorah and Mocha
Scope & Content:
Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) with Lord Shelburne [William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne], Secretary of State for the Southern Department, related to the complaints of the Sheriff of Mecca [Sharīf of Mecca] with respect to the inhabitants of Mecca and Medina s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1763-10 Jan 1767
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

6794. IOR/G/29/25, ff 31-110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 31-110
Title:
Correspondence Regarding the Naval Powers in the East Indies and the Gulph of Persia
Scope & Content:
Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) related to the request of naval assistance for the Company in order to use against its maritime enemies in the Gulph [Gulf]. The correspondence includes: A ‘Narrative of the Rise and Progress of the Troubles in the Gulph of Persia [Iran].’ The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1767-30 Aug 1769
Extent:
1 item (80 folios)

6795. IOR/G/29/5/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/5/9
Title:
Diary and Consultations of Mr William Cockell, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing August 1736 and ending July 1737
Scope & Content:
The item is in the form of a diary (ff 350-388), which contains records of consultations at the Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory. The Chief Agent, William Cockell, and the Factory Council members, including Nathaniel Whitwell, Thomas Waters, Walter Ray, and George Pack, headed the consultation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1736-31 Jul 1937
Extent:

1 item (38 folios)

6796. IOR/G/29/20/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/20/1
Title:
PERSIA FACTORY RECORDS: LETTERS FROM BASRA, 1753-1773, PT 1
Scope & Content:
This item contains correspondence sent to and received from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] from 17 January 1753 to 19 April 1765. It contains correspondence relating to the following: The Mussaleem of Bussora’s [Mutasallim of Basra] arrest of the Dutch Resident [Tiddo Frederik ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1753-19 Apr 1765
Extent:
1 item (180 folios)

6797. IOR/G/29/32, ff 665-678

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 665-678
Title:
Draft of a Secret Committee Memorandum Regarding Sir Harford Jones's Conduct During his Diplomatic Mission to Persia [Iran]
Scope & Content:
A memorandum by the Secret Committee of the East India Company's Court of Directors, with notes on the conduct of Sir Harford Jones during his diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran]. The memorandum is in response to the charges made by Lord Minto [Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)

6798. IOR/G/29/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/34
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter, dated 17th September 1808
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Brigadier-General John Malcolm’s 1808 mission to Persia [Iran] as East India Company Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The papers are enclosures to a packet sent to the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1808-17 Sep 1808
Extent:
1 volume (416 folios)

6799. IOR/G/29/38, ff 451-454

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 451-454
Title:
Memorandum on the contents of a dispatch from Mr Rich to the Chairman, relative to the state of affairs in Persia.
Scope & Content:
The item consists of an India Board [Board of Control] memorandum relating to Persia [Iran] and concerning the contents of a dispatch from Claudius James Rich, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], to the Chairman of the Court of Directors (dated 10 June 1817). The memorandum discusses the danger to Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1817
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

6800. IOR/G/29/32, ff 1-478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 1-478
Title:
Letters from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
Copies of dispatches from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Persian Court, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, in London. Dispatches are sent from Bombay [Mumbai], Schyras [Shiraz], Teehran [Tehran, also written Tahran in the present volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Apr 1808-29 Jan 1811
Extent:
1 item (478 folios)