Letters (with enclosures) from HM Foreign Office to the India Office regarding events in Abyssinia and the mounting of the British military expedition in 1867/68. All the volumes are indexed.
Secret correspondence mainly of HM Foreign Office and HM Colonial Office with the Board of Control, the EIC Court of Directors, the Governor-General in India, HM Plenipotentiary in China, etc. chiefly relating to the First Opium War and its aftermath. Vols 1 to 9 have indexes.
Letters (with enclosures of proceedings) from the Java Government to the EIC Court of Directors in London. Formerly classified as Java Factory Records G/21/60-62 but transferred to L/PS since they properly belonged to the Political and Secret Department.
Letters to the Secret Committee of the EIC Court of Directors and (after 1858) to the Secretary of State for India. These volumes were formerly included in G/29 Persia and Persian Gulf Factory Records, but since they originally formed part of the archives of the Secret Department of the Board of ...
Secret Letters received from various areas outside India
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Secret letters received by the East India Company (1793-1858) and the India Office (1858-1874) from Bourbon, Mauritius, Persia, Mesopotamia, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, the Persian Gulf, Turkish Arabia, Aden, Muscat and Zanzibar. Vols 1, 3-5, and 11-50 have indexes.