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Project / Collection India Office Records Subject Geographical exploration Level [40] File

1. IOR/H/736

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/736
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to India and Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises letters to Malcolm during the periods 1796, 1801-02, 1807-15, and 1830-32, when Malcolm served in either a military or administrative capacity for the East India Company in India and on diplomatic missions to Persia [Iran] (1808 and 1810), and when he was in England ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1796-9 Nov 1832
Extent:
1 volume (458 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/135
Title:
File 758/1908 'Arabia: Travellers - Mr G W Bury'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the movements of the explorer and naturalist, George Wyman Bury. The majority of the correspondence is between Bury himself, the India Office, the Government of India, the Government of Bombay, and the Political Residency at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1915
Extent:
1 volume (229 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/259

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/259
Title:
File 1202/1912 'Arabia:- Travellers. Capt. F. F Hunter. Herr Runkiar (Danish Expedition). Capt Shakespear.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns expeditions by British officers and by the Royal Danish Geographical Society into the interior of Arabia. The papers cover: plans by the Royal Danish Geographical Society to explore the countries around the Persian Gulf, 1909; the refusal of British officials to sanction a p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1908-5 Mar 1920
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/657
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 1 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 1 to 65’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin numbers 1-65 produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (616 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1507
Title:
Coll 1/70 'Aden. Oil concessions in the Aden Protectorate'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a request by Petroleum Concessions Limited to be allowed to survey areas of the Aden Protectorate for oil exploration purposes. The file includes a formal request received from the company, plus details of a meeting held between a company representati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1936-6 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2153
Title:
Coll 6/80 'South and South-Western boundaries of Saudi-Arabia'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the disputed south and south-western boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It primarily concerns an expedition to southern Saudi Arabia that was undertaken by Harry St John Bridger Philby in 1936, during which Philby was reported to have entered Yemeni and British territory. Much of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1936-1 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/20/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/122
Title:
‘Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab.’
Scope & Content:
Confidential notes of a journey made through Persia [Iran] from Shiraz to Jashk [Jāsk], via Fassa [Fasā], Dārāb, Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Mīnāb, by John Richard Preece, Assistant Superintendent of the Telegraph Department, Persia. The report was published by the Intelligence Branch, Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1884
Extent:

1 volume (26 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/20/C169

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C169
Title:
Southern Nejd: Journey to Kharj, Aflaj, Sulaiyyil, and Wadi Dawasir in 1918.
Scope & Content:
Harry St John Bridger Philby's account of his journey in the southern regions of the Najd, published for the Arab Bureau by the Government Press in Cairo, 1919. The journey was taken in May to June 1918 while the author was in Riyadh for the purpose of maintaining relations with Ibn Sa‘ud [‘Abd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:

1 volume (46 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/20/E23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E23
Title:
'DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA MADE FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS AND INFORMATION COLLECTED ON THE SPOT BY CARSTEN NIEBUHR.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication containing a translation of a text entitled ‘Description of Arabia made from Personal Observations and Information Collected on the Spot by Carsten Niebuhr’. The original text by Niebuhr, in German, was published in Amsterdam and Utrecht in 1774. This translation was ca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1889
Extent:

1 volume (59 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/1/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/89
Title:
‘Letters inward; `diaries of Captain Hamerton’s proceedings at Sharjah’’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers received by the Residency in the Persian Gulf during 1840. The principal correspondents are Commodore George Barnes Brucks, Commanding the Naval Squadron in the Persian Gulf, Commander Anthony H Nott of the Honourable Company’s Brigantine Tigris,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Aug 1839-19 Dec 1840
Extent:
1 file (114 folios)