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1. IOR/F/4/479/11535

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/479/11535
Title:
‘Delay in the conveyance of certain intelligence from Bussorah to Bombay.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. It concerns the transmission of news about the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo from Bussora [Basra] to Bombay. The primary su...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1815-1 Nov 1815
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2504/142185

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2504/142185
Title:
‘Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of seven letters from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors. The letters refer to general updates from the Persian Gulf and surrounding regions between August 1852 and February 1853. It is the first in a series of sixteen items on events in the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1852-11 Feb 1853
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3277
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 34. PART II. (From 16th to 31st May 1917).’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 16 and 31 May 1917. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1917-31 May 1917
Extent:
1 volume (169 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3278
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 35. PART I. (From 1st to 15th June 1917).’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 1 and 15 June 1917. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Sep 1915-15 Jun 1917
Extent:
1 volume (209 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/372, ff 5-11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/372, ff 5-11
Title:
Anglo-Persian Relations Regarding the Persian Siege of Herat
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 4 dated 21 May 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Malta 17 July 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated 1 and 19 May 1838. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 May 1838
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/372, ff 120-126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/372, ff 120-126
Title:
The Arrival of a British Field Force in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 14 of 1838, dated 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Marseilles 26 October 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated 18 June-5 J...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/398, ff 137-205

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/398, ff 137-205
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 79 of 1841, dated 30 September 1841. The enclosures are dated 14 June-14 September 1841. The principal correspondents are: Captain Samuel Hennell, Resident in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1841
Extent:
1 item (69 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 304-313

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/466, ff 304-313
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 71 of 1850, dated 3 December 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 3 November to 2 December 1850. A note in red ink, dated 1 Novemb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1850
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/68/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/59
Title:
Letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, to David Morier
Scope & Content:
Letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to his secretary David Morier, of 9 June 1810. In the letter Jones requests that Morier remove a dispatch concerning ‘the affair of the Chintz and Tobacco’ from a packet addressed to the Secret C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jun 1810
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/76/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/1
Title:
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Court of Directors
Scope & Content:
Two letters from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company]. The first letter, dated 23 January 1781, forwards intelligence received from India, Muscat,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jan 1781-19 Feb 1781
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)