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1. IOR/L/MAR/C/586

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/586
Title:
Survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company's Cruiser Ternate
Scope & Content:
A survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company cruisers the Ternate and the Sylph (1810-1811). Folios 23-142 contain a report of proceedings on board the Ternate, 1 January-25 September 1811. The report contains: The daily entri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1811
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/271
Title:
‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
Scope & Content:
Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:
19 Jan 1871-27 Dec 1872
Extent:
1 volume (983 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/12
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM THE E.I.C. RESIDENT IN THE PERSIAN GULF 1842-43 FROM AGENT IN SYRIA 1842-43 FROM AGENT WITH IMAUM OF MUSCAT 1842-43’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters to the Secret Committee of the East India Company from: Lieutenant-Colonel Davies, in charge of the Residency in the Persian Gulf; the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson; HM’s Consuls and East India Company’s Agents in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1842-13 Apr 1844
Extent:
1 volume (227 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1115
Title:
File 1707/1924 ‘Arabia:- Jeddah Situation Reports. (1924-1930)’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly contains printed copies of despatches from HM Agent and Consul, Jeddah, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, enclosing reports on the situation in the Hejaz (also spelled Hedjaz in the file) [now a region of Saudi Arabia], from January 1924 to December 1930, and relat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1924-18 Mar 1931
Extent:

1 volume (445 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B14c

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14c
Title:
Mr Rothery's report to the Treasury in respect to the Muscat subsidy and Zanzibar Agency Expenses
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 27 September 1876. The memorandum discusses the views of Henry Cadogan Rothery on whether the Imperial Government had to contribute to the payment of an ann...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1876
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B22a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B22a
Title:
Italian Proceedings on the African Coast of the Red Sea.
Scope & Content:
A paper written in continuation of a previous memorandum regarding the Italian Occupation of Assab Bay [IOR/L/PS/18/B22], which brings the story up to date. The first section describes the course of events at and around Assab from May 1880 to September 1881, including protests made by the Egypt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Sep 1881
Extent:

1 file (16 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B83

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B83
Title:
Papers Respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains printed copies of correspondence between British officials regarding Britain's attempts to prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa, relations between Britain and the Sultanate of Zanzibar, and Zanzibar's relations with Muscat. The correspondence dates from September...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1869
Extent:

1 volume (34 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B84

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B84
Title:
Further Papers respecting the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and the System Pursued for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding their attempts to monitor and prohibit slave traffic on the East Coast of Africa. The correspondence dates from March 1869 to October 1869. Of particular interest are the following folios: Folio 71 - French Government boat r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Oct 1869
Extent:

1 volume (25 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B85
Title:
Letter and Enclosures from Commodore Sir Leopold George Heath on the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and Suggestions for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of a series of letters (and their various enclosures) between Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath, Commander of HMS Octavia and the following individuals: The Secretary of the Admiralty, Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox; Britain's Agent in Zanzibar, Henry Adrian Chu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1869
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B87

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B87
Title:
Resolutions passed by the East African Slave Trade Committee in their sittings of November 5 and 8, 1869
Scope & Content:
This file is a list of nine resolutions passed by the East African Slave Trade Committee as part of Britain's efforts to prohibit and regulate slave traffic in that area.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Nov 1869
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)