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1. IOR/H/733-737

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/733-737
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833)
Scope & Content:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm chiefly relating to his career as an officer of the East India Company in India and on diplomatic missions to Persia [Iran]. Volumes IOR/H/733 and 736 relate to both central India and Persia; volume IOR/H/734 relates solely to India; volume IOR/H/737 relates solely t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1796-13 Dec 1833
Extent:
5 volumes (1885 folios)

2. IOR/H/735

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/735
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to his term as MP for Launceston, Indian affairs, patronage and personal matters
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises copies of letters from Malcolm relating to the period when he returned to England in 1831 and later that year became Tory Member of Parliament for the ‘rotten borough’ of Launceston, supporting his friend the Duke of Wellington in opposition to the (Whig) Reform Bill...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1831-13 Dec 1832
Extent:
1 volume (188 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/H/734

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/734
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to his term as Governor of Bombay, 1827-1830
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of letters from Malcolm during the period when he was Governor of Bombay (his appointment was from 1 November 1827–1 December 1830). Malcolm arrived in Bombay around 26 December 1827. Much of his time was spent outside Bombay, touring the territories under his jurisdi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1827-4 Dec 1830
Extent:
1 volume (492 folios)

5. 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)

6. 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)