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1. IOR/L/PS/5/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376
Title:
'ENCLOSURES SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY' Vol 14
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of enclosures to despatches from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee. The volume is divided into seventeen items: Afghanistan Affairs (ff 2-33) Intelligence Reports ('Newsletters') (ff 34-42) Memorandum of Int...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
11 Mar 1839-31 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 volume (700 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 606-659

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 606-659
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item consists of a despatch to the Secret Committee, 31 July 1839, from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai]. The despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1 and is followed by an abstract of contents, numbered 2. The abstract of contents is followed by des...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
20 Jul 1839-31 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 item (53 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/76/142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/142
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 1 January 1801. The letter concerns Elgin’s grant of a Birat [commission] to Morad (also known as Mordechai) Coen, a Jewish merchant in Bagdad, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1 Jan 1801
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/12
Title:
File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of correspondence between British officials regarding the construction of the Hedjaz [Hijaz] Railway. The correspondence discusses a number of different aspects of the railway including its route, the progress of its construction and donations made towards its constru...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1901-1908
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/551

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/551
Title:
File 1740/1915 Pt 1-2 'Arabia: Policy in Hadramaut, Yemen'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence and other papers relating to British policy in connection with the Hadramaut (also written Hadhramut and Hadhramaut). The correspondence covers internal affairs, relations with tribal leaders, activities of the Turks and the Imam of Yemen, boundary questions,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
10 May 1915-18 Jul 1919
Extent:

1 volume (419 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/551/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/551/1
Title:
File 1740/1915 Pt 1 'Arabia: Policy in the Hadramaut, Yemen'
Scope & Content:
This part contains correspondence and other papers relating to British policy in the Hadramaut (also written Hadhramaut and Hadhramut) region of Yemen. The papers cover: the recruitment of Arabs from Aden and its hinterland by the Italian Government for employment in Africa; the status of Arabs ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
10 May 1915-20 Nov 1917
Extent:
1 item (229 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/670
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and telegrams related to the temporary administration of Baghdad Vilayet [province] and the question of the type of postage stamps to be used for the civil post office at Baghdad during the British occupation. The correspondence is partic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Mar 1915-18 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (274 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1
Title:
''A HANDBOOK OF MESOPOTAMIA VOLUME 1 GENERAL''
Scope & Content:
This volume is Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume 1: General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division: August 1916). The handbook contains a variety of information about the region of Mesopotamia, including its geography, economy, population, and history. The prefatory note at the start of the v...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Aug 1916
Extent:

1 volume (367 folios)