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1. IOR/L/MAR/C/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/4
Title:
'MARINE RECORDS. MISCELLANEOUS. 4.'
Scope & Content:
These volumes contain various documents relating to different voyages, mostly East India Company voyages. There is a list of contents of the volumes on folios 4-5 of the first volume, signed by W Foster, presumably William Foster, Registrar and Superintendent of Records at the India Office, da...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Mar 1606-20 Mar 1896
Extent:

2 volumes (209 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/5/272, ff 159-163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/272, ff 159-163
Title:
Memorial submitted by British merchants trading in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of a despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Duke of Argyll, HM Secretary of State for India, Number 7 of 1873, dated 10 January 1873. The enclosures are dated from 26 March to 6 August 1872 and concern a memorial submitted by B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Jan 1873
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/6/106, ff 66-69a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/106, ff 66-69a
Title:
Political No. 7 of 1873, Forwarding Papers relating to the Proposed Modifications in the Commercial Treaty with Persia, and Offering Observations on the Subject
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 10 January 1873 and received by the India Office Political Department on 7 February 1873, forwarding a copy of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires at Teh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Jan 1873-7 Feb 1873
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/76/97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/97
Title:
Correspondence regarding Transactions of Cochineal
Scope & Content:
This item contains: 1. Extracts and summaries of letters in French, Italian, and Arabic from Constantinople [Istanbul] dated 10 September-30 September 1799, concerning transactions of cochineal involving British-employed ‘Tartars’ [couriers]. 2. Letters from John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
10 Sept 1799-2 Nov 1799
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/76/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/170
Title:
Reports on Indigo
Scope & Content:
Three papers in French concerning indigo, copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 15 April 1801. The first two papers describe the trade in indigo from India to Bagdad and other parts of the Ottoman Empire since the 1770s, detailing trade routes and the quality and prices o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1801
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/76/177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/177
Title:
Reports on Indigo
Scope & Content:
Two papers in French concerning indigo, copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 30 August 1801. The papers appraise specimens of indigo brought to Bagdad by Captain John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], and suggest trade strategies. A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
30 Aug 1801
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/299
Title:
File 352/1912 'Persia: travel in South; conditions on the Bushire-Shiraz road; Russian commercial competition in South Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'South Persia'. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/86/1 is entitled 'Persia Trade in South: Conditions on the Bushire-Shiraz Road; Russian Commercial Competition in South Persia'. It includes correspondence discussing trends in trade between the southern region ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912-1919
Extent:
1 volume (324 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/657
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 1 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 1 to 65’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin numbers 1-65 produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (616 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/856/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/856/3
Title:
File 5015/1919 Pt 3 'Persia: Revision of Customs Tariff'
Scope & Content:
This item comprises: deciphered telegrams; correspondence; covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India; India Office Political Department registry forms with subject and notes; and India Office draft telegrams, draft letters, minu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Aug 1919-16 Jun 1923
Extent:
1 item (155 folios)