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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Malcolm, John, Knight, diplomat and administrator, 1769-1833 Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/F/4/288/6503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/288/6503
Title:
‘Depredations committed by the Joasmee pirates in violation of the Treaty of Peace concluded with them in 1806. An expedition authorised by the Supreme Government for their suppression.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists mostly of copies of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Governments of Bengal and Bombay. It concerns reports of piracy carried out by the Joasmee [Qawasim], and the deliberations of the governments of Bombay and Bengal ov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1806-30 Aug 1809
Extent:
1 item (100 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/676/18740

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/676/18740
Title:
‘Testimony to the services of Major General Sir J[oh]n Malcolm on the occasion of his departure from India.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a military letter from the Government of Madras [Chennai]. The correspondents are Major General Sir John Malcolm; the Government of Madras; and Thomas Henry Somerset Conway, Adjutant General of the Madras Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Sep 1821-4 Jan 1822
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

3. IOR/G/29/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/24
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia received from Bassora, 1799-1811
Scope & Content:
Originals and duplicates of correspondence, comprising secret letters, excerpts of reports, schedules, translated letters and transcripts in original languages (Ottoman Turkish and French), in 331 enclosures received from Bassora [Basra, Iraq] and addressed to the Secret Department. Papers relate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
13 Jan 1799-18 Dec 1811
Extent:
1 volume (767 folios)

4. IOR/G/29/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/26
Title:
Sir John Malcolm's mission to Persia: copies of his letters and enclosures to the Governor-General, Fort William
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and enclosures from Captain John Malcolm, British Envoy at Abusheher [Bushehr, various spellings appear in the volume] to the Earl of Mornington, Governor-General, Fort William (Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess, Wellesley, spelled Marquis in the volume). Letters were a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1799-31 Jul 1801
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

5. IOR/G/29/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/34
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter, dated 17th September 1808
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Brigadier-General John Malcolm’s 1808 mission to Persia [Iran] as East India Company Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The papers are enclosures to a packet sent to the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1808-17 Sep 1808
Extent:
1 volume (416 folios)

6. IOR/G/29/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/35
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letters of 21 December 1808, 20 January and 3 April 1809
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf]. The principal correspondents are: Sir Harford Jones [later Jones-Brydges], Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia; Lord Minto [Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynyn...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1808-20 Mar 1809
Extent:
1 volume (304 folios)

7. IOR/G/29/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/36
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia to the Secret Department, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises a single packet addressed to the Secret Department, containing transcripts and supplementary duplicate copies of secret letters, excerpts of intelligence reports, itineraries, travel accounts, translated diplomatic letters, treaties, royal edicts or firmaun [farmān], and tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1809-12 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 volume (362 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/67/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/2
Title:
Copies of Letters from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, and to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
A copy of a dispatch from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 6 October 1810. The dispatch concerns Malcolm’s views on the state of Persia. It includes discussio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1810-8 Aug 1811
Extent:

1 item (47 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/67/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/8
Title:
Copy of a Letter from John Malcolm to the Secret Committee with Enclosures
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 4 August 1810, enclosing a copy of dispatch addressed to them dated 15 July 1810 (not included in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Aug 1810-3 Dec 1810
Extent:

1 item (16 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/67/17

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/17
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of India
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 28 April 1808, mostly concerning the implications of Brigadier-General John Malcolm having been sent on a special mission to Persia representing the Supreme G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1808
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)