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1. IOR/L/PS/9/76/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/57
Title:
Letter from Jean-Baptiste Aubert du Bayet to Jean-François Rousseau
Scope & Content:
A copy of a French letter from Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet, Ambassador of the French Republic to the Sublime Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire], to Citizen Jean-François Rousseau, Consul of the French Republic in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 10 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
31 Oct 1797
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/9
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 2 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, despatches, notes and memoranda relating to financial loans made by the Governments of Great Britain and Russia to the Government of Persia from 1901 to 1905; and potential loans to be made during 1906 and 1907. The volume discusses the failure o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Dec 1905-12 Feb 1908
Extent:

1 volume (527 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/921/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/921/1
Title:
File 5924/1920 Pt 2 ‘Persia:- Financial Situation. Persian debt to H.M. Govt.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding debts reportedly owed by the Government of Persia [Iran] to the British Government and the Government of India, as well as Persia’s financial affairs generally. The papers notably cover: Recovery of interest...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Nov 1923-16 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 item (421 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/3419

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3419
Title:
Coll 28/22 ’Persia; Relations with H.M.G. Persian Debt to H.M.G.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the Persian Government’s desire, signalled in June 1931, to pay off in full a pre-war interest-bearing debt owed to Britain, totalling £490,000. Correspondence is chiefly exchanged between the Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter, George William Rendel), the India Off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jun 1931-1 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (191 folios)

5. IOR/P/765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/P/765
Title:
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. FOREIGN DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS. POLITICAL. MAY-AUGUST 1872.
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Proceedings of the Political branch of the Foreign Department of the Government of India for the months of May to August 1872. These Proceedings comprise copies of correspondence of the Government of India Foreign Department (renamed Foreign and Political Department in 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Gujarati, and Persian
Date Range:
Dec 1869-Aug 1872
Extent:
1 volume (742 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/5/21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/21
Title:
File 9/4 ‘Political Agency Koweit. IX/4. Civil Cases from 1909’
Scope & Content:
The file contains case correspondence, including several witness statements and a record of hearing proceedings held at the British Political Agency in Kuwait. These case papers relate to the investigation and resolution of 27 individual claims that were submitted to the Political Agent, Kuwait ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, and Tamil
Date Range:
29 Sep 1908-18 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 file (299 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/6/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/236
Title:
File 8/54 Muscat State Affairs: Affairs of members of ruling family
Scope & Content:
This file concerns members of the ruling family of Muscat. Most of the file relates to the financial affairs of Dhiyab bin Fahad [Dhiyab bin Fahad bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd], a cousin of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd]. The correspondence begins with a request from Dhiya...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
25 Apr 1941-29 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (132 folios)