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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Language Persian Level [36] Series

1. IOR/R/15/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1
Title:
Political Residency, Bushire
Scope & Content:
There are considerable gaps within the series owing to periodic weeding processes. The files and volumes may be divided as follows: (1) 1763-1849 (IOR/R/15/1/1-118) Separate series of letters received and letters sent contain correspondence mainly with Basra and later with Government of Bomb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1763-1948
Extent:
c 758 files

2. Mss Eur F88 Series 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88 Series 2
Title:
Mountstuart Elphinstone: Chiefly private correspondence with friends and relatives
Scope & Content:
Comprises the private and semi official correspondence of Mountstuart Elphinstone. This makes up a large part of the collection and has been arranged into four sub-series: juvenile and family correspondence; chiefly private correspondence with friends and relatives while in India; chiefly private...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Marathi, and Persian
Date Range:
1776-1859
Extent:
141 files

3. Mss Eur F88 Series 3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88 Series 3
Title:
Mountstuart Elphinstone: Private and semi-official letters and papers, chiefly on Indian affairs
Scope & Content:
Comprises volumes of private and semi-official letters Mountstuart Elphinstone received during his Commissionership of the Deccan (1818-1819) and his Governorship of Bombay (1819-1827). Chiefly on Indian affairs, correspondents include Sir Evan Nepean, Sir Charles Colville, Francis Warden, Captai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
c 1811-1829
Extent:
54 files

4. Mss Eur F88 Series 4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88 Series 4
Title:
Mountstuart Elphinstone: Private and semi-official letters, chiefly on Indian affairs
Scope & Content:
Comprises volumes of private and semi-official letters, chiefly on Indian affairs, that Mountstuart Elphinstone received during his Commissionership of the Deccan (1818-1819) and his Governorship of Bombay (1819-1827), from correspondents in Europe and India, including his brother James Ruthven E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
c 1811-1829
Extent:
16 files

5. Mss Eur F88 Series 5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88 Series 5
Title:
Mountstuart Elphinstone: Private letters, chiefly on Indian affairs 1820-1827
Scope & Content:
Comprises volumes of miscellaneous private letters, chiefly on Indian affairs, that Mountstuart Elphinstone received during his Governorship of Bombay (1819-1827). The volumes are indexed and a list of correspondents are given in the scope and content of each file
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:
1820-1827
Extent:
19 files

6. Mss Eur F88 Series 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F88 Series 8
Title:
Mountstuart Elphinstone: Papers relating to his publication, 'The History of India'
Scope & Content:
Comprises manuscript notes made by Mountstuart Elphinstone on Indian history, used as research for his publication, 'The History of India (London, John Murray: 1841). Mss Eur F88/342 contains manuscript notes of 'The History of India' and Mss Eur F88/343 contains newspaper reviews of the publica...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1765-1843
Extent:
9 files

7. Mss Eur F111-112 Series 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111-112 Series 8
Title:
Lord Curzon (1859-1925): Early Life: Papers Relating to Persia
Scope & Content:
This series contains papers relating to George Nathaniel Curzon's interest in Persia. Mss Eur F112/365 and Mss Eur F112/366 consist of two notebooks containing Curzon’s handwritten notes on his travels in Persia during 1889-90, while Mss Eur F111/71 contains notes, reports and correspondence mai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Dutch, English, German, and Persian
Date Range:
1876-1923
Extent:

14 files and volumes (1613 folios)

8. Mss Eur F111-112 Series 32

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111-112 Series 32
Title:
Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905: Persia
Scope & Content:
The series consists of files and volumes of papers mostly relating to British interests and policy in Persia [Iran], and the Persian Gulf, collected by George Nathaniel Curzon. Subjects covered by the papers include the Seistan [Sistan] region, British trade with Persia and trade routes in Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, German, and Persian
Date Range:
1891-1911
Extent:

13 files and volumes (2,300 folios), and a two piece pouch envelope

9. Mss Eur F126/29-35

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/29-35
Title:
Sir Lewis Pelly's journey from Persia to Afghanistan, 1860
Scope & Content:
The series contains letters, reports, despatches, memorandum and journals relating to Lewis Pelly's special duty to travel overland from Tehran to Kurrachee [Karachi] visiting Meshed [Mashhad], Herat and Candahar [Kandahar] and in the course of the journey to gather intelligence and information ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1860-1864
Extent:

7 files (786 folios)

10. Mss Eur F126/48-54

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/48-54
Title:
Reports, Treaties and Papers relating to the Persian Gulf Written or Compiled by Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
The series comprises reports, treaties and other papers relating to Lewis Pelly's time in the Persian Gulf and covers proposed extensions to the telegraph network through Persia and Muscat; trade in and around the Persian Gulf; and compiled knowledge of the local tribes in the area. The papers ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1863-1872
Extent:

7 files (129 folios)