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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Cabool, Afghanistan Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/5/137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/137
Title:
'Enclosures to Secret Letters from India', Vol 56
Scope & Content:
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports and financial statements relating to diplomatic, military and logistical preparations for the British-led invasion of Afghanistan by the so-called Army of the Indus. Pac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 volume (793 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/139

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/139
Title:
'Enclosures to Secret Letters from India', Vol 58
Scope & Content:
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports, financial statements and some local newsletters, relating to diplomatic, military and logistical aspects of the British-led invasion of Afghanistan by the so-called Army...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 volume (839 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/143
Title:
'Enclosures to Secret Letters from India', Vol 62
Scope & Content:
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports, financial and statistical statements and translations of local 'newsletters', relating to diplomatic, military and logistical aspects of the British-led invasion of Afghanistan by t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1839
Extent:
1 volume (797 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/393, ff 1-384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/393, ff 1-384
Title:
Affairs in Sinde, Afghanistan, and Elsewhere
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of Enclosures to a General Letter from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 27 of 1841, dated 31 March 1841. The enclosures are dated 29 December 1840 to 31 March 1841. They largely relate to the situation in Sinde [Sindh], a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1841
Extent:
1 item (384 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 371-375

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 371-375
Title:
Account of a Military Action in Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
Enclosure no. 9 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 1 December 1842. The enclosure is dated 2 November 1842. A note attached to folio 372 states that ‘(Enclosures Nos 2-8 are missing)’. The enclosure contains an account by Captain Charles Delamain, commanding ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1842
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

6. Mss Eur F231/25, ff 19-64

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/25, ff 19-64
Title:
‘Secret Letters received March 20: 1855 by way of Marseilles’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from both the Governor General of India (8 February, Numbers 7-13) and the Government of Bombay (16 February, Numbers 14-17 and 19-20). The amount of detail for each entry therefore varies. The subject matter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1855
Extent:
1 item (46 folios)

7. Mss Eur F231/31, ff 50-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/31, ff 50-59
Title:
‘Secret Letters received, by way of Marseilles, April 28. 1857.’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries of official secret letters received from the Governor General of India in Council (21 March 1857, Number 14; 24 March 1857, Number 15; 27 March 1857, Number 73; 30 March 1857, Number 74; 31 March 1857, Numbers 74-76; 2 April 1857, Numbers 77-79; and 17 April, un...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1857
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)