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21. IOR/R/19/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/23
Title:
Egypt & Red Sea 38, 1838-59
Scope & Content:
This volume contains records of the expenses incurred and payments received by British agents and the Packet Agency at Cairo from 13 January 1838 to 30 September 1859. It includes the dates of the transactions, details of the transactions themselves, and the amounts of money given in Piastres. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1838-30 Sep 1859
Extent:
1 volume (661 folios)

22. IOR/R/19/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/24
Title:
Cairo Packet Agency A/C Current and Mail Charges, 1838-1859
Scope & Content:
This file is divided into two sections, titled 'Cairo Packet Agency, A/C Current' and 'Cairo Packet Agency, Mail Charges', and contains the accounts current and mail charges of the Cairo Packet Agency, from January 1838 through September and March 1859 respectively. The accounts current and mail...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1838- Sep 1859
Extent:
1 file (533 folios)

23. IOR/X/3649/1-2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3649/1-2
Title:
'Chart of the Indian Ocean; from the Cape of Good Hope, to Calcutta, including the Red Sea & Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
Covers the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Persian Gulf, including the islands therein, together with the coasts of eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and southern Asia as far as eastern India. The chart is published in 2 sheets, north and south (bearing the shelfmarks IOR/X/3649/1 and IOR/X/3649/2...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1845
Extent:
1 map on 2 sheets

24. WD37

Reference (shelfmark):
WD37
Title:
'Gibel Tir', by Sir Henry Yule (1820-1899)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: Maritime view in the Red Sea, at the northwest of the Bab el-Mandeb strait, of Gibel Tir [Jebel Al-Tair], meaning ‘bird mountain’. Temporal context: This drawing was likely made during Henry Yule’s return journey to India with his new wife, Anna Maria White, in 1844. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1844
Extent:
1 watercolour, pencil and ink drawing on watercolour paper