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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Travel writing

1. IOR/L/MAR/C/587

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/587
Title:
'Papers relating to Seas, Rivers and Countries connected with Steam Navigation in Asia'
Scope & Content:
Volume containing journals and other descriptions of journeys in and around the Arabian Peninsula and India, particularly sea and river journeys. The volume contains: ‘Captain Wainwright's Remarks on the Navigation of the Persian Gulph 1809-1810’ (folios 3-28), containing a description of the n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1811-13 Mar 1834
Extent:
1 volume (539 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 222-224

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/447, ff 222-224
Title:
Journal of a Steam Trip to the North of Bagdad, with Sketches, by Lieutenant Jones of the Indian Navy
Scope & Content:
This item comprises an abstract listing enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 139 of 1846, dated 30 November 1846. In the abstract the enclosures are dated 25-30 November 1846. The enclosures, which are not present in this item...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1846
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/619

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/619
Title:
File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1919 PORTION (1)'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of printed reports, typed letters and other miscellaneous correspondence by British officials relating to the British occupation of Mesopotamia [Iraq] in the period February 1916 to August 1919 covering topics such as criminal procedure regulations, proclamations and notices...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Feb 1916 - 25 Aug 1919
Extent:
1 volume (741 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/5/394

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/394
Title:
Journal of a Journey from Persia to India through Herat and Candahar. Also Report of a Journey to the Wahebee Capital of Riyadh in Central Arabia
Scope & Content:
The volume is Journal of a Journey from Persia to India through Herat and Candahar and Report of a Journey to the Wahabee Capital of Riyadh, in Central Arabia,written by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and printed for Government by The Education Society's ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866
Extent:

1 volume (132 folios)

5. Mss Eur F111/70

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/70
Title:
Persia 1888. From Rishir to Bunder Abbas.
Scope & Content:
This volume is a report by Samuel Butcher, a superintendent and clerk in the Indo-European Telegraph Department, documenting the route from Rishir, a village near Bushire, to Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The report describes the different cities that Butcher went through on his way to Bunder ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 April 1888- 8 Jan 1894
Extent:
1 volume (32 folios)