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1. 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)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 264-289

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 264-289
Title:
Persian Gulf and Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 67 of 1847, dated 2 August 1847. The enclosure is dated 28 May 1847 (although some internal copy documents date back to 6 April 1847). The primary docu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Aug 1847
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 441-463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 441-463
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 77 of 1847, dated 4 September 1847. The enclosures are dated 26 July 1847 (although some internal copy documents date back to 1 April 1847). The primar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
4 Sep 1847
Extent:
1 item (23 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 66-81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/504, ff 66-81
Title:
Zanzibar Affairs
Scope & Content:
Enclosures Nos. 3-4 to Despatch No. 10 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 March 1860. The Enclosures are dated 29 November 1859-3 January 1860. Received 5 April 1860. The Enclosures include a report from Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Palmer Rigby, Consul and British Agent, Zan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Mar 1860
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/6/116, ff 346-348

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/116, ff 346-348
Title:
Political No. 36 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of a Letter from HM Minister at Teheran to Earl Granville on the Subject of a Proposed Treaty with the Shah of Persia for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
This item consists of a copy of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 20 February 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 16 March 1874, forwarding a letter from HM Minister at Teheran [Tehran] to Earl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Feb 1874-16 Mar 1874
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/22
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX, JAN-JULY 1873’, Vol 22
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of despatches tothe Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, from Edward Charles Ross, ActingPolitical Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 11 January-7 August 1873. Thedespatches contain enclosures consisting of correspondence sent and received bythe Acting Political Res...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
11 Jan 1873-7 Aug 1873
Extent:
1 volume (575 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/4088-4099

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4088-4099
Title:
Political (External) Collection 34: Slavery and the Slave Trade
Scope & Content:
The Political (External) Collection 34: Slavery and the Slave Trade sub-series concerns British anti-slave trade policy across the Red Sea, Arabian Peninsula, and Persian Gulf regions. It largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, specifically between the Foreign Office and Bri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1919-1948
Extent:
12 files (2358 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B22a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B22a
Title:
Italian Proceedings on the African Coast of the Red Sea.
Scope & Content:
A paper written in continuation of a previous memorandum regarding the Italian Occupation of Assab Bay [IOR/L/PS/18/B22], which brings the story up to date. The first section describes the course of events at and around Assab from May 1880 to September 1881, including protests made by the Egypt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Sep 1881
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B84

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B84
Title:
Further Papers respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding their attempts to monitor and prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa. The correspondence dates from March 1869 to October 1869. Of particular interest are the following folios: Folio 71 - French Government boat r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Oct 1869
Extent:

1 volume (25 folios)