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1. IOR/G/29/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/27
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones Esquire British Resident at Bagdat to The Right Honourable Henry Dundas, One of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, from July 1798 to May 1801, with an Appendix
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers relative to the early years of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency. The majority of the volume consists of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control, with enclosures. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798-8 Nov 1802
Extent:
1 volume (611 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/751

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/751
Title:
File 3156/1918 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: Administration- [Past, Present & Future] Parliamentary Questions & Public Criticism 1920’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, reports, minutes, Parliamentary notices and extracts from Hansard and from The Times newspaper. The correspondence is mainly related to Parliamentary questions, addressed to the Prime Minister or to the Secretary of State for India, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
11 Feb 1920-4 Dec 1920
Extent:
1 volume (217 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1514
Title:
‘File 16/17 i Agency Gardens’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to purchases for and the maintenance of the Bahrain Political Agency gardens. The file’s correspondents include: the Political Agent (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch); representativ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Latin
Date Range:
13 Oct 1927-8 Nov 1942
Extent:
1 file (314 folios)

4. Mss Eur E70

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E70
Title:
Original manuscript notes concerning the Gangetic fishes
Scope & Content:
Most of the notes are in Latin, with occasional remarks in English, and some also show the Bengali names. The notes correspond to the printed text of Fishes found in the river the Ganges... but have been considerably revised before publication.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1800-1823
Extent:
1 volume in 2 parts

5. Mss Eur E71

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E71
Title:
A description of the Gangetic Fishes
Scope & Content:
Contains the text as printed in Fishes in the river Ganges... with a few verbal differences annotated such as might have been made on the proofs. In three sections: introduction; description of the Gangetic fishes; Index methodicus.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1815
Extent:
1 volume

6. Mss Eur E72

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur E72
Title:
144 drawings in an album, depicting Gangetic fish. By an Indian artist supervised by Buchanan. These drawings were used for the plates to Buchanan's 'An Account of the Fishes found in the River Ganges and its Branches', Edinburgh, 1822
Scope & Content:
One hundred and four folios of drawings in water-colour and pen and ink depicting Gangetic Fishes, made under the supervision of Francis Buchanan (later Buchanan-Hamilton, 1762-1829). 103 fishes are illustrated, one fish (No.65 and 66) occupying two folios. A coloured side view is usually give...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Bengali, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1798-1814
Extent:
1 volume

7. Mss Eur F88/74

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/74
Title:
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for September to December 1829
Scope & Content:
Comprises several letters congratulating Elphinstone on his safe return to England. Topics of correspondence include requests for recommendation and patronage and dinner invitations. Mss Eur F88/74/13 is a request from Mr Jopp asking for assistance in recovering the money from the Naroba Ortia ca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
24 Feb 1829-27 Dec 1829
Extent:
1 file 178 folios

8. Mss Eur F88/75

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/75
Title:
Correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone for 1830
Scope & Content:
Topics of correspondence include dinner invitations; letters of introduction; requests for recommendation and patronage (for example, from George Norton); James Erskine's debts and financial situation; George Keith Erskine's return to India; and the exchange rate between the East and West (John M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
27 Nov 1829-20 Dec 1830
Extent:
1 file 142 folios

9. Mss Eur F88/473

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88/473
Title:
Mountstuart Elphinstone's pocket volume of Virgil
Scope & Content:
In Latin. Includes Virgil's three major works - the Bucolics, Gergics and the Aeneid. This book was given to Elphinstone by his mother, Lady Elphinstone in 1794, although it once belonged to his uncle Ruthven. It has been placed in a bag
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
[1700s]
Extent:
1 volume 349 pages

10. Mss Eur F594/10/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F594/10/1
Title:
Manuscripts relating to Friar Odoric of Pordenone
Scope & Content:
Copies of manuscripts, in Latin, and Italian relating to Friar Odoric of Pordenone. Two manuscripts copied from the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana or National Library of St Marks, Venice, stamped with a library stamp and annotated by Joseph or Giuseppe Valentinelli, , 1864. (i) Codice ms. del se...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
3 items