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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88/201
Title:: Private Letters from Captain Henry Dundas Robertson. Volume I
Scope & Content:: Written to Mountstuart Elphinstone partly during his Residency at Poona and his Commissionership of the Deccan. Also includes a copy letter from Francis Warden to Captain Robertson (folios 10-12) and folios in Persian script (folios 27-29 and 54 - items in Persian are awaiting further investigati...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1817-1818
Extent:: 1 volume 231 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88/263
Title:: Miscellaneous Private Letters to Mountstuart Elphinstone. No. 10
Scope & Content:: With index. Written to Mountstuart Elphinstone during his Governorship of Bombay. Includes letters and enclosures from: Francis Whitworth Russell; Lieutenant Colonel William D Cleiland; Dr Andrew Jukes; James Williams; Captain George Forster Sadler; Colonel Andrew Aitchison; John Jefferys; Christ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: Dec 1820-Jul 1821
Extent:: 1 volume 243 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88/302
Title:: Private Letters to Mountstuart Elphinstone from General Thomas Munro
Scope & Content:: With index. Written to Mountstuart Elphinstone during his Commissionership of the Deccan and his Governorship of Bombay. Folios 26 and 96 are in Persian script (items in Persian are awaiting further investigation to determine their exact language)
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1817-1827
Extent:: 1 volume 190 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88/343
Title:: Newspapers and other reviews on Mountstuart Elphinstone's publication, 'The History of India'
Scope & Content:: Includes reviews from: The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc.; The Examiner; The Athenaeum, Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts; The Spectator; The Times; The Monthly Review; and a document in Persian script (folios 123-155 -...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1841
Extent:: 1 file 155 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88/414
Title:: Papers of Mountstuart Elphinstone
Scope & Content:: Includes notes by Mountstuart Elphinstone on various subjects: Puttun; North East frontier at Guzerat [Gujarat]; the route from [Palmpoor] to [Aboo]; instructions to Mr Marriott on his survey, etc. Folios 65-66 are in Persian script (items in Persian are awaiting investigation to determine their ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1820
Extent:: 1 file 149 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88/427
Title:: Papers of Mountstuart Elphinstone regarding the Commissariat; distribution of the forces; plan for reducing the auxiliary horses; notes on conversations with veils; drafts and letters to Francis Rawdon Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and Sir Thomas Hislop with enclosures, and other papers about the war with the Peishwa
Scope & Content:: Includes items such as distribution returns on native and European troops, probable estimates on the political, civil and military expenses in the Deccan, lists of forts given up by the late Peishwa, and a statement of the commissariat with the Poona Force (commanded by General Lionel Smith). (It...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1817-1818
Extent:: 1 file 131 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/66
Title:: Notes and Correspondence Regarding Persia
Scope & Content:: This file consists mainly of notes by George Nathaniel Curzon on matters relating to Persia. Most of the notes are written on various kinds of headed paper, with the most abundant being those of the India Office, the Foreign Office, the House of Commons and the Carlton Club, Whitehall. Some of t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: c 1892-c 1898
Extent:: 1 file (84 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/361
Title:: A Ceremonial Illuminated Letter in Persian and a Kharita
Scope & Content:: The file contains two letters (f 1 and ff 2-4), a paper envelope (f 5), and a two piece pouch envelope (un-foliated). The first letter (f 1) is referred to as khat (standard letter). The letter is a personal one and it is sent by Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan (1880-1901) to Lord Geo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 11 Aug 1895-23 Jan 1899
Extent:: 1 file (5 folios and a two piece pouch envelope)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/382
Title:: Notes on Persian Seistan
Scope & Content:: A confidential report on the Persian region of Seistan [Sistan]. The report was compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, 1st Battalion (Lincoln Regiment), in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General's Department. The report was printed at the Office of the Superintendent of Government ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1903
Extent:: 1 volume (67 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/384
Title:: Turkish Arabia: Being an Account of an Official Tour in Babylonia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia, 1886-87
Scope & Content:: This volume is a printed account of the official winter tour of 1886-87 in Babylonia, Assyria and Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) undertaken by Colonel William Tweedie, Bengal Staff Corps, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia (Iraq) and His Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad. The purpose of the t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 volume (35 folios)

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