1. 'Vol 212 Secret Correspondence: Bahrain; Muscat and Bandar Abbas; Miscellaneous and Local' Contributor: HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Political Agent, Turkish Arabia (correspondent)Āl 'Alī (Family) (correspondent) Date: 1856/1857 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Bunder AbbasMuscat Extent: 2 volumes (305 folios)
2. '17 File 592 I Runaway Sailors and Divers, Agreement with Trucial Chiefs for their Prevention' Contributor: Native Agent, Trucial Coast, Sharjah (correspondent)Emir of Sharjah, Āl Qāsimī dynasty (correspondent)Emir of Umm al-Qaywayn, Āl Mu'allā dynasty (correspondent)Emir of Ra's al-Khaymah, Āl Qāsimī dynasty (correspondent)Emir of Dubai, Āl Maktūm dynasty (correspondent)Emir of Ajman, Āl Nu'aymī dynasty (correspondent)Emir of Abu Dhabi, Āl Nahyān dynasty (correspondent) Date: 1878/1880 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Trucial Coast Extent: 1 volume (230 folios)
3. Letter from the Shargah [Sharjah] agent (Haji Ya'qub) to Lewis Pelly Date: 1865/1865 Language: ArabicEnglish Extent: 2 folios
4. Vol 59: Letters Inward Contributor: President and Governor of Bombay in Council (correspondent) Date: 1829/1829 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: BahreinMuscat Extent: 1 volume, 3 items (18 folios)
5. Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident Persian Gulf, at Koweit [Kuwait] to Hajee [Haji] Ahmed, Residency Arabic Mirza Contributor: Berenice, Steam Sloop, Chief Officer (correspondent)Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (correspondent)Sir Knight Lewis Pelly (creator)William Henry Colvill (creator)Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (creator)Sir Knight Frederic John Goldsmid (creator)Sir Knight William Henry Rodes Green (creator)Sir Knight Robert Phayre (creator)1st Earl of Northbrook Thomas George Baring (creator)Sir Knight William Lockyer Merewether (creator)William Gifford Palgrave (creator)Sir Knight Charles Umpherston Aitchison (creator) Date: 1865/1865 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: KoweitBaroda StateIranPersian GulfRajputanaRiyadhRussiaSindMuscatZanzibarAl-Hasa Extent: 2 folios
6. 25 File 624 Biographical histories of noteworthy persons; information collected from officials at Muscat, Makran Coast, Gwadar Contributor: Native Agent, Bahrain (correspondent)Assistant Political Agent, Mekran Coast (correspondent) Date: 1852/1884 Language: EnglishArabicPersian Geographic region: BahrainFarsOmanBusrah Extent: 1 volume (430 folios)
7. 'Book 141 1844-1849' secret letters inward Contributor: Government of Persia, Qajar dynasty (correspondent) Date: 1843/1848 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Eastern Africa Extent: 1 file (111 folios)
8. Letter No 357 of 1827 from William Newnham, Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, Bombay Castle, to the Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire [Ephraim Gerrish Stannus] Date: 1827/1827 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 2 folios
9. ‘37 File 483 Memorandum on Bahrain; Major E L Durand’s Notes on the Antiquities of Bahrain’ Contributor: British Museum, Principal Librarian (correspondent) Date: 1875/1889 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Bahrain Extent: 1 volume (104 folios)
10. Letter from Hajee [Haji] Ahmed, Bushire to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire Date: 1865/1865 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 folio
11. British Agents Contributor: HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Bū Sa'īd Dynasty (correspondent)Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar (correspondent) Date: 1857/1862 Language: EnglishArabicFrench Geographic region: MuscatShargahSheraz Extent: 1 volume (318 folios)
12. Letter from Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Sir Evan Nepean, President and Governor in Council, Bombay Date: 1814/1814 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 6 folios
13. Letter from Eusef Ben Beder [Yusuf bin Bedr], Koweit [Kuwait] to Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident Contributor: Berenice, Steam Sloop, Chief Officer (correspondent)Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (correspondent)Sir Knight Lewis Pelly (creator)William Henry Colvill (creator)Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (creator)Sir Knight Frederic John Goldsmid (creator)Sir Knight William Henry Rodes Green (creator)Sir Knight Robert Phayre (creator)1st Earl of Northbrook Thomas George Baring (creator)Sir Knight William Lockyer Merewether (creator)William Gifford Palgrave (creator)Sir Knight Charles Umpherston Aitchison (creator) Date: 1865/1865 Language: ArabicEnglish Geographic region: KoweitBaroda StateIranPersian GulfRajputanaRiyadhRussiaSindMuscatZanzibarAl-Hasa Extent: 1 folio
14. Vol 10 Letters Outward Contributor: HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Prince-Governor of Fārs, Qajar dynasty (correspondent)Residency Surgeon, Persian Gulf (correspondent)Governor of Bushire (correspondent)Resident, Bussora (correspondent)Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (correspondent)Ja'afar 'Alī Khān (correspondent) Date: 1806/1808 Language: EnglishFrenchArabic Geographic region: Persia Extent: 2 volumes, 314 items (212 folios)
15. '1914 War: Miscellaneous Letters concerning Bahrain' Contributor: King of Bahrain (correspondent)Bahrain Political Agency (creator)Political Agent, Bahrain (creator) Date: 1914/1917 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 file (81 folios)
16. Vol 261 Squadron and Miscellaneous Contributor: Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Bū Sa'īd Dynasty (correspondent) Date: 1858/1859 Language: EnglishPersianArabic Extent: 1 volume (94 folios)
18. Vol 187 1853/54 Persia; Squadron Contributor: Political Agent, Turkish Arabia (recipient)HM Chargé d'Affaires to Iran (correspondent) Date: 1853/1853 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Batinah CoastLingah Extent: 1 volume, 39 items (60 folios)
19. '32 File 654 Intrigues of Persian officials on Arab Coast' Contributor: Native Agent, Bahrain (correspondent)Native Agent, Trucial Coast, Sharjah (correspondent)Native Agent, Lingah (correspondent)Emir of Qatar (correspondent)Emir of Abu Dhabi, Āl Nahyān dynasty (correspondent) Date: 1887/1894 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Bushire Extent: 1 volume (162 folios)
20. 'Book 47: 1826-1827' Contributor: Emir of Sharjah, Āl Qāsimī dynasty (correspondent)Governor of Bushire (recipient)President and Governor of Bombay in Council (correspondent) Date: 1826/1827 Language: EnglishPersianArabic Geographic region: Mombasa Extent: 1 file, 9 items (33 folios)
21. Letter from Thuwaini bin Said, Sultan of Muscat to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf Date: 1862/1866 Language: Arabic Extent: 1 folio
22. Vol 14: Letters Outward Contributor: HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Residency Surgeon, Persian Gulf (correspondent)Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council (recipient) Date: 1813/1814 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: CharrackRas el KhimaKazroonKhenKishmBussoraSheraz Extent: 1 volume, 254 items (142 folios)
23. 'Book 181 - 1852' Contributor: Native Agent, Shiraz (correspondent) Date: 1851/1852 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: PersiaBasraBushireCarrack Extent: 1 volume (146 folios)
24. Copy of Arabic letter from the Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bombay to Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad Āl Khalīfah, ruler of Bahrain, dated 15 Ṣafar 1238 [30 October 1822] Date: 1822/1822 Language: Arabic Extent: 1 folio
25. Native Letters Outward Date: 1856/1859 Language: EnglishArabicPersian Extent: 1 volume (140 folios)
26. Letter from Major Charles Grant, 1 Assistant Resident to Shaikh Eysan bin Alli [‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah], Chief of Bahrain Date: 1874/1874 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 folio
27. 'Book No 219. From November 1856 and January 1857 To July 1861' Contributor: Native Agent, Muscat (correspondent)Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Bū Sa'īd Dynasty (correspondent)Sultan of Zanzibar (correspondent)Political Agent and Consul, Muscat (correspondent)Native Agent, Trucial Coast, Sharjah (correspondent)Turkī bin Sa'īd Āl Bū Sa'īd (correspondent) Date: 1857/1862 Language: EnglishArabicHebrew Geographic region: MuscatZanzibarOman Extent: 1 volume (327 folios)
28. Copy of Arabic letter form the Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bombay to Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān bin Imām Aḥmad Āl Bū Sa‘īd, Imam of Muscat, dated 15 Ṣafar 1238 [30 October 1822] Date: 1822/1822 Language: Arabic Extent: 1 folio
29. File 58 Bahrain affairs Contributor: Shaikh Hakim of Bahrain Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah (witness)James Felix Jones (witness) Date: 1862/1868 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Bahrain Extent: 1 volume (183 folios)
30. 'Book 130' Letters inward Contributor: Political Agent and Consul, Zanzibar (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Secretary to the Political Department (correspondent)Shaikh Salmin bin Nasir (recipient) Date: 1840/1841 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Trucial CoastEl BiddahBahreinMuskatKarrack (island)Eastern Africa Extent: 1 file (40 folios)
31. Letter no.402 of 1852 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Arthur Malet, Chief Secretary of the Government Bombay Date: 1852/1852 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 2 folios
32. 'Book No 271' [Resident's Tour: Reports for 1858 and 1859] Contributor: Sultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Bū Sa'īd Dynasty (correspondent)Native Agent, Trucial Coast, Sharjah (correspondent)Shaikh of Demaum (correspondent) Date: 1858/1863 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Socotra Extent: 1 volume (115 folios)
34. 'No 413 Vol 19. Revised Commercial Treaty with Muscat' Contributor: Foreign Office (correspondent)Political Agent and Consul, Muscat (correspondent)Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (correspondent) Date: 1887/1905 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: ZanzibarMuscat Extent: 1 volume (180 folios)
35. Persian Expeditionary Force Contributor: HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (correspondent)Foreign Office (correspondent)HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)Commander of the Persian Expeditionary Force (correspondent)Political Agent, Turkish Arabia (correspondent)Political Agent, Persian Field Force (correspondent)East India Company, Court of Directors, Secret Committee (correspondent) Date: 1856/1857 Language: EnglishArabicFrench Geographic region: Karrack (island)Tungistoon Extent: 1 volume (226 folios)
36. Letter No. 154 from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf Date: 1826/1826 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 3 folios
37. Vol 19 Letters inward Contributor: Government of Bombay, Civil Auditor (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Public Department (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Military Paymaster General (correspondent)Government of Bombay, Secretary to the Political Department (correspondent)Sir Knight William Grant Keir (correspondent) Date: 1816/1874 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Rasul Khyma Extent: 1 volume 272 items (162 folios)
38. Letter No. 79: Commodore George Robinson, Commander of the Persian Gulf Squadron, HC Sloop Clive, Near Bushire, to Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire Date: 1853/1853 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 4 folios
39. Vol 43: Letters Inward Contributor: Government of Bombay, Political and Services Department (correspondent)Thomas Perronet Thompson (correspondent)Shaikh Shaikh of the Āl Jalāhimah tribe Raḥmah bin Jābir Āl Jalāhimah (recipient) Date: 1826/1826 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Kateef Extent: 1 volume, 4 items (31 folios)
40. 'Vol 178 1852/53 Bahrain; Arabian Coast; Slave Trade; Muscat' Date: 1852/1852 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: Trucial Coast Extent: 1 file in two volumes (122 items, 338 folios)
41. 'B.11 668-II Sirri Island' Contributor: Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (correspondent)Native Agent, Lingah (correspondent)Native Agent, Trucial Coast, Sharjah (correspondent) Date: 1904/1910 Language: EnglishArabicPersian Geographic region: TanbSirriSir Abu Nu'airDalmah IslandFarur Extent: 1 file (146 folios)
42. Letter No. 196 from William Newnham, Chief Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Ephraim Gerrish Stannus, Resident in the Persian Gulf Date: 1826/1826 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 25 folios
43. Letter no.403 of 1854 from Captain Arnold Kemball, Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Anderson, Secretary to the Government of Bombay Date: 1854/1854 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 19 folios
44. Vol 66: Letters Inward Contributor: Elphinstone Institution (correspondent) Date: 1829/1830 Language: EnglishArabicHindi Geographic region: CalicutMuscatTellicherry Extent: 1 volume (40 folios)
45. Letter from Colonel Lewis Pelly, Resident Persian Gulf to Amir Faysul ibn Torky aul Saood [Amir Faisul ibn Turki al Sa'ud], Riyath [Riyadh] Contributor: Berenice, Steam Sloop, Chief Officer (correspondent)Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (correspondent)Sir Knight Lewis Pelly (creator)William Henry Colvill (creator)Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (creator)Sir Knight Frederic John Goldsmid (creator)Sir Knight William Henry Rodes Green (creator)Sir Knight Robert Phayre (creator)1st Earl of Northbrook Thomas George Baring (creator)Sir Knight William Lockyer Merewether (creator)William Gifford Palgrave (creator)Sir Knight Charles Umpherston Aitchison (creator) Date: 1865/1865 Language: EnglishArabic Geographic region: KoweitBaroda StateIranPersian GulfRajputanaRiyadhRussiaSindMuscatZanzibarAl-Hasa Extent: 1 folio
46. Letter from Faysul ibn Torky Al Saood [Faisal ibn Turki Al Sa'ud] to Colonel Pelly, Resident Persian Gulf Contributor: Berenice, Steam Sloop, Chief Officer (correspondent)Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (correspondent)Sir Knight Lewis Pelly (creator)William Henry Colvill (creator)Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (creator)Sir Knight Frederic John Goldsmid (creator)Sir Knight William Henry Rodes Green (creator)Sir Knight Robert Phayre (creator)1st Earl of Northbrook Thomas George Baring (creator)Sir Knight William Lockyer Merewether (creator)William Gifford Palgrave (creator)Sir Knight Charles Umpherston Aitchison (creator) Date: 1865/1865 Language: ArabicEnglish Geographic region: KoweitBaroda StateIranPersian GulfRajputanaRiyadhRussiaSindMuscatZanzibarAl-Hasa Extent: 2 folios
47. Letter from Hajee [Haji] Ahmed, Bushire to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire Date: 1865/1865 Language: EnglishArabic Extent: 1 folio
48. 'Vol 282 Head IV, Volume 11 (eleven) Bahrein and Wahabee Complications' Contributor: Native Agent, Bahrain (correspondent)King of Bahrain (correspondent)Commander, HM sloop Falkland (correspondent)Commander, HM frigate Semiramis (correspondent)Shaikh of Demaum (correspondent) Date: 1859/1862 Language: EnglishArabicTurkish, Ottoman (1500-1928) Geographic region: BahreinBassidoreDemaumKatif Extent: 2 volumes (354 folios)