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1. IOR/G/29/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/28
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter of 2 Sep 1806: copies of correspondence of Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bushire, relating to his political proceedings in Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mostly of correspondence, with enclosures, from Samuel Manesty, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Richard Colley Wellesley, Governor-General of India, Fort William. The letters concern Manesty's unauthorised diplomatic mission to the Court of the Shah of Persia ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1803-15 Sep 1806
Extent:
1 volume (287 folios)

2. IOR/G/29/31

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/31
Title:
Letters and Enclosures from Sir Harford Jones (Envoy to Persia) to Mr Dundas (President of the India Board), Dated 11th January 1809 to 28th July 1810, Vol: 3.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of correspondence, firmans, and other documents relating to Sir Harford Jones's diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran], 1807-1811. Much of the volume consists of updates from Jones sent from Schyras [Shiraz, also written Sheerauz in this volume], Tahran [Tehran], and Tau...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
11 Jan 1809-28 Jul 1810
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

3. IOR/G/29/32, ff 1-478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 1-478
Title:
Letters from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
Copies of dispatches from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Persian Court, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, in London. Dispatches are sent from Bombay [Mumbai], Schyras [Shiraz], Teehran [Tehran, also written Tahran in the present volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Apr 1808-29 Jan 1811
Extent:
1 item (478 folios)

4. IOR/G/29/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/34
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter, dated 17th September 1808
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Brigadier-General John Malcolm’s 1808 mission to Persia [Iran] as East India Company Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The papers are enclosures to a packet sent to the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1808-17 Sep 1808
Extent:
1 volume (416 folios)

5. IOR/G/29/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/35
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letters of 21 December 1808, 20 January and 3 April 1809
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf]. The principal correspondents are: Sir Harford Jones [later Jones-Brydges], Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia; Lord Minto [Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynyn...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1808-20 Mar 1809
Extent:
1 volume (304 folios)

6. IOR/G/29/37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/37
Title:
Enclosures on Persia from the Secret Department, Fort St George, to the Secret Committee, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the contents of three packets sent by the Secret Department, Fort St George, Madras [Chennai], to the Secret Committee, London, dated 21 December 1809, 10, and 26 January 1810. The contents consist of correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], particularly in connection to Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 May 1809-27 Jan 1810
Extent:
1 volume (277 folios)

7. IOR/G/29/38, ff 520-700

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 520-700
Title:
Letters from Sir Gore Ouseley to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
The item consists of correspondence relating to the embassy of Sir Gore Ouseley to the Court of Persia [Iran]. The letters are principally from Ouseley to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors. Matters covered by the papers include: The progress of Ouseley’s mission, including his journ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1811-31 Oct 1813
Extent:
1 item (181 folios)

8. IOR/H/733

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/733
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to Persia and central India
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to Malcolm’s diplomatic Mission in Persia [Iran] 1810 and relations with Sir Harford Jones, HM Ambassador to Persia (folios 7-148). The remainder of the volume relates to Malcolm’s activities in Central India as Political Agent to the Governor-General of India, following the Pi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1808-26 Feb 1819
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

9. IOR/H/736

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/736
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to India and Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises letters to Malcolm during the periods 1796, 1801-02, 1807-15, and 1830-32, when Malcolm served in either a military or administrative capacity for the East India Company in India and on diplomatic missions to Persia [Iran] (1808 and 1810), and when he was in England ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1796-9 Nov 1832
Extent:
1 volume (458 folios)

10. IOR/H/737

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/737
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to his diplomatic missions in Persia and to the country and history of Persia
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to British relations with and diplomatic missions to Persia [Iran], notably John Malcolm’s missions of 1799-1801, 1808 and 1810, Anglo-Persian relations 1812, and the geography and history of Persia as affecting Britain’s position in India. The contents of the three volumes a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1799-15 Jul 1812
Extent:

3 volumes in one slipcase (507 folios)