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31. IOR/R/15/1/683

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/683
Title:
'CONFIDENTIAL 86/12-ii A.75. P.C.L. MUSCAT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle, Olaf Caroe), the Political Agent at Muscat (Ralph Ponsonby Watts), the India Office (Maurice Clauson, John Charles Walton), the Secretary of State for India (Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marqu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1937-29 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 volume (187 folios)

32. IOR/R/15/2/599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/599
Title:
‘WILFRED THESIGER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the movements of Wilfred Thesiger at the end of his second crossing of the Empty Quarter [al-Rub‘ al-Khālī]. Correspondence in the file is between the Political Officer, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident, Bahrain; the Political Agent, Muscat; the Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1948-27 May 1950
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

33. IOR/R/15/5/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/66
Title:
22/16 Mr Philby's Mission to Najd - 1918.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the Najd mission to Ibn Sa‘ūd by Harry St John Bridger Philby, Political Officer. Correspondence mainly concerns the dispatch and arrival of supplies for St John Philby: tea, tobacco, film, ammunition an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1918-2 Nov 1925
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)

34. IOR/R/15/6/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/27
Title:
File XXIII/1 British Consulate Muscat, Travels in Oman, 1894-1900
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding a proposed journey from Muscat across southern Arabia to Hadhramaut in Yemen by the explorer, James Theodore Bent. The correspondence focuses on Bent's request for an Indian surveyor in the employ of the Government of India to accompany him on the tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1894-25 Nov 1894
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

35. IOR/R/15/6/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/28
Title:
File XXIII/1 Travels in Oman, Travels in Oman, 1901-1908
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding a number of trips made in Oman, primarily by Percy Zachariah Cox the Political Agent in Muscat. It includes correspondence with the Survey of India Department, the Government of India and the Political Residency in Bushire. In addition to this correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1901-26 Feb 1908
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/6/29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/29
Title:
File XXIII/5 Travels in Oman. Intending Travellers (1911 to 1922)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials related to two topics: A request made in 1911 by the Danish Legation in London (on behalf of the Royal Danish Geographical Society) for the British Government to support a proposed Danish expedition to Oman and Hadhramaut in Yemen. The ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jun 1911-17 Aug 1922
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/6/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/30
Title:
File XXIII/8 'Travels in Oman. Visit of B. Thomas to the Musandam Peninsula. 1928. Notes on Shihuh dialects & people, also Kumzaris'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a document entitled 'The Musandam Peninsula: its people the Shihuh and their dialects' written by Bertram Thomas, Adviser to the Sultan of Muscat. This document contains Thomas's description of the settlements, traditions and customs of the Shihuh tribe of the Musandam Penin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
Mar 1927
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/6/348

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/348
Title:
File 11/15 Captain Eccles' Report on the Interior of Oman
Scope & Content:
This file contains a report compiled by Captain George J Eccles commandant at the Muscat Infantry on the interior of Oman in November and December of 1926. The file contains a detailed description of the expedition let by Eccles and included geologists and members of the National History Society....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1926-10 May 1926
Extent:
1 file (46 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/6/349

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/349
Title:
File 11/6 Colonel Miles' Notes on Buraimi
Scope & Content:
This file contains a single report compiled by Colonel Miles, the Political Agent in Muscat, on a visit to the Buraimi in 1875. The report contains an extensive description of the Colonel's journey, including the geographic and botanical features of the region between Muscat and Buraimi as well a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1875-1876
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

40. Mss Eur F594

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F594
Title:
Hakluyt Society Archive
Scope & Content:
Archive of the Hakluyt Society, an organisation which has sought to publish scholarly and academic editions of works relating to historic voyages and travels and other material of geographical interest since its foundation in December 1846. The archive contains papers relating to the running of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1846-2002
Extent:

51 boxes, 9 loose volumes, 3 oversize portfolios