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1. IOR/G/29/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/36
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia to the Secret Department, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises a single packet addressed to the Secret Department, containing transcripts and supplementary duplicate copies of secret letters, excerpts of intelligence reports, itineraries, travel accounts, translated diplomatic letters, treaties, royal edicts or firmaun [farmān], and tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1809-12 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 volume (362 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 1093-1244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 1093-1244
Title:
Persian Gulf 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 56 of 1840, dated 22 August 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-45 and are dated 6 April to 22 August 1840. The enclosures mostly consist of cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Aug 1840
Extent:
1 item (151 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 215-260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 215-260
Title:
Persian Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 103 of 1847, dated 27 December 1847. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 14 October 1847. The enclosure consists of a copy of a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
27 December 1847
Extent:
1 item (46 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/458, ff 138-149

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/458, ff 138-149
Title:
Persian 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 95 of 1848, dated 11 November 1848. The enclosures, which are numbered 3-4 and dated 15 September and 10 October 1848 respectively, concern affai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
11 Nov 1848
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 364-388c

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 364-388c
Title:
Political No. 226 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Relating to the Enforced Resignation of the Wuzeer of Persia, his Subsequent Reinstatement by the Shah, Appointment to the Governorship of Ghilan, and Call to Teheran
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 26 December and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 19 January 1874, forwarding copies of papers relating to the enforced resignation of the Wuz...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Dec 1873-19 Jan 1874
Extent:
1 item (34 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/68/64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/64
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Jean Raymond to Govenor-General of Isle de France, Capitaine Général De Caen
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter in French from Jean Raymond to the Governor-General of the Isle de France [Mauritius] Capitaine Général De Caen [Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen], of 31 January 1809. This letter was part of the papers seized from French courier Jean Robbio at Bushire by Stephen Babington, in cha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
31 Jan 1809
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/68/78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/78
Title:
Enclosure in Sir Harford Jones's letter of 14 September 1810
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, to the Emperor [Shah] of Persia [Fath ‘Ali Shāh Qājār], undated. The letter announces the departure of the Persian Ambassador to France [‘Askar Khān Afshār] for Persia, and promises the friendship and support of France if the Sha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14 Sep 1810
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/68/79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/79
Title:
Enclosure in Sir Harford Jones's letter of 14 September 1810
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of the French, to the Emperor [Shah] of Persia [Fath ‘Ali Shāh Qājār], undated. The letter announces the departure of the Persian Ambassador to France [‘Askar Khān Afshār] for Persia [Iran], and promises the friendship and support of France if ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
14 Sep 1810
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/76/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/89
Title:
Report from Herat
Scope & Content:
A report from Herat by an anonymous French author in the service of Shah Zeman [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Ruler of Afghanistan], dated 3 September 1799. The report describes the campaign of Baba Khan [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Persia] in eastern Persia [Iran], including the capture of Nichabour ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/76/225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/225
Title:
Report on the Kingdom of the Agvans [Afghanistan]
Scope & Content:
A report written in French and dated Bagdad [Baghdad], 23 April 1802, relaying information received from a messenger from Tahran [Tehran] concerning the Kingdom of the Agvans [Afghanistan]. The report describes a siege of Herat led by Chah Zadé Kaisser [Shāhzādeh Qaiṣar] and rumours of attacks...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
23 Apr 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)