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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88 Series 2 Sub-series 3
Title:: Mountstuart Elphinstone: Chiefly private correspondence with friends and relatives at home
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, French, Hindi, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:: Nov 1827-1859
Extent:: 102 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88 Series 3
Title:: Mountstuart Elphinstone: Private and semi-official letters and papers, chiefly on Indian affairs
Scope & Content:: Comprises volumes of private and semi-official letters Mountstuart Elphinstone received during his Commissionership of the Deccan (1818-1819) and his Governorship of Bombay (1819-1827). Chiefly on Indian affairs, correspondents include Sir Evan Nepean, Sir Charles Colville, Francis Warden, Captai...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: c 1811-1829
Extent:: 54 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88 Series 4
Title:: Mountstuart Elphinstone: Private and semi-official letters, chiefly on Indian affairs
Scope & Content:: Comprises volumes of private and semi-official letters, chiefly on Indian affairs, that Mountstuart Elphinstone received during his Commissionership of the Deccan (1818-1819) and his Governorship of Bombay (1819-1827), from correspondents in Europe and India, including his brother James Ruthven E...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: c 1811-1829
Extent:: 16 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88 Series 5
Title:: Mountstuart Elphinstone: Private letters, chiefly on Indian affairs 1820-1827
Scope & Content:: Comprises volumes of miscellaneous private letters, chiefly on Indian affairs, that Mountstuart Elphinstone received during his Governorship of Bombay (1819-1827). The volumes are indexed and a list of correspondents are given in the scope and content of each file
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:: 1820-1827
Extent:: 19 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F88 Series 8
Title:: Mountstuart Elphinstone: Papers relating to his publication, 'The History of India'
Scope & Content:: Comprises manuscript notes made by Mountstuart Elphinstone on Indian history, used as research for his publication, 'The History of India (London, John Murray: 1841). Mss Eur F88/342 contains manuscript notes of 'The History of India' and Mss Eur F88/343 contains newspaper reviews of the publica...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1765-1843
Extent:: 9 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111-112 Series 8
Title:: Lord Curzon (1859-1925): Early Life: Papers Relating to Persia
Scope & Content:: This series contains papers relating to George Nathaniel Curzon's interest in Persia. Mss Eur F112/365 and Mss Eur F112/366 consist of two notebooks containing Curzon’s handwritten notes on his travels in Persia during 1889-90, while Mss Eur F111/71 contains notes, reports and correspondence mai...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch, English, German, and Persian
Date Range:: 1876-1923
Extent:: 14 files and volumes (1613 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111-112 Series 32
Title:: Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905: Persia
Scope & Content:: The series consists of files and volumes of papers mostly relating to British interests and policy in Persia [Iran], and the Persian Gulf, collected by George Nathaniel Curzon. Subjects covered by the papers include the Seistan [Sistan] region, British trade with Persia and trade routes in Persi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, German, and Persian
Date Range:: 1891-1911
Extent:: 13 files and volumes (2,300 folios), and a two piece pouch envelope

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/29-35
Title:: Sir Lewis Pelly's journey from Persia to Afghanistan, 1860
Scope & Content:: The series contains letters, reports, despatches, memorandum and journals relating to Lewis Pelly's special duty to travel overland from Tehran to Kurrachee [Karachi] visiting Meshed [Mashhad], Herat and Candahar [Kandahar] and in the course of the journey to gather intelligence and information ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1860-1864
Extent:: 7 files (786 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/48-54
Title:: Reports, Treaties and Papers relating to the Persian Gulf Written or Compiled by Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: The series comprises reports, treaties and other papers relating to Lewis Pelly's time in the Persian Gulf and covers proposed extensions to the telegraph network through Persia and Muscat; trade in and around the Persian Gulf; and compiled knowledge of the local tribes in the area. The papers ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1863-1872
Extent:: 7 files (129 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/65-68
Title:: Miscellaneous Papers relating to Affairs in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:: The files contain notes, correspondence, press cuttings, sketches, a journal, and a published paper relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf during Lewis Pelly's term as Political Resident there (1862-1873). The files include Pelly's explorations and travels throughout the Gulf region, and espec...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:: 1864-c 1873
Extent:: 4 files (102 folios)

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