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1. IOR/L/MIL/7/706

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/7/706
Title:
Collection 5/56: ‘Terms of employment of officers lent for service under other Governments. Selection of British officers to organise Ottoman Gendarmerie in Asiatic Turkey. Proposals abandoned.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between officials of the Foreign Office, War Office, India Office, and other diplomatic and administrative staff, and from the Turkish [Ottoman] Ambassador to Great Britain. It concerns proposals, subsequently suspended, for the appointment of British officers to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Apr 1913-4 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/271
Title:
‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
Scope & Content:
Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:
19 Jan 1871-27 Dec 1872
Extent:
1 volume (983 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 354-375

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/442, ff 354-375
Title:
Affairs in Persia
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 33 of 1846, dated 24 March 1846. The enclosures are dated and contain correspondence (in English and French) relating to affairs in Qajar [Qājār] Persia [Iran]. Contents relate to: protests fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Mar 1846
Extent:
1 item (22 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 376-448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 376-448
Title:
Despatches from HM's Envoy in Persia
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-3 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 9 March 1848. The enclosures are dated 10-20 January 1852. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran], including: The removal of Meerxa Tekkee Khan [Mīrz...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Mar 1852
Extent:
1 item (73 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/24
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX, JAN-JUNE 1874’, Vol 24
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of despatches tothe Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, from Edward Charles Ross, PoliticalResident in the Persian Gulf, dated 10 January-25 June 1874. The despatches containenclosures consisting of correspondence sent and received by the PoliticalResident, dated 20...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Jan 1874-25 Jun 1874
Extent:
1 volume (579 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/76/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/70
Title:
Letters from Constantinople
Scope & Content:
This item contains two documents: 1. A letter from John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople and dated 10 April 1799. Spencer Smith forwards a packet of letters to Jones, including an Ara...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Apr 1799-14 Apr 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/76/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/71
Title:
Report on the Vhabi [Wahhabi]
Scope & Content:
A report in French on the Vhabis [Wahhabi movement] collected by John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul]. The report covers: the ideology and history of the movement since 1743; the geography of Nedged [Najd]; the territorial conquests of the movement and its ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/134/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/134/1
Title:
File 395/1908 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Katif; British-Indian commercial interests at Katif '
Scope & Content:
Part 1 contains correspondence relating to the treatment of British-Indian traders at the port of Katif [Al-Qaṭīf]. The correspondence is mostly between the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Foreign Office, and the India Office. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Mar 1904-Nov 1910
Extent:
1 item (98 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/534

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/534
Title:
File 94/1915 Pt 4 ‘German War; Turkey; Baghdad prisoners &c.’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning British women and children detained by Turkish authorities in Baghdad as prisoners of war, and an agreement for their exchange (brokered by the United States Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]) for Turkish officials and their families captured in Amara during the British i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Jan 1916-5 Jan 1917
Extent:

1 volume (239 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B3
Title:
Egyptian Claims to Sovereignty over the Somali Coast.
Scope & Content:
A historical memorandum relating to Egyptian claims to sovereignty over the Somali coast, written by A W Moore, Assistant Secretary to the India Office, in two parts, submitted 26 February 1876 and 11 October 1879. The first part of the memorandum provides a historical narrative of events leadi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1876-1879
Extent:

31 folios