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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Diplomacy Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947

1. IOR/F/4/160/2791

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/160/2791
Title:
Proceedings in consequence of the accidental killing of the Persian Ambassador Haji Kheleel Khan at Mazagaon. Examiners Office June 1804
Scope & Content:
This item consist of letters, extracts of letters, and a copy of dispatches between, principally, the Court of Directors of the East India Company and the Secret Committee of the Government of Bombay regarding the proceedings in consequence of the death of the Persian Ambassador, Haji Khali Khan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Aug 1802-18 Apr 1804
Extent:
1 item (37 folios)

2. IOR/G/29/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/28
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter of 2 Sep 1806: copies of correspondence of Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bushire, relating to his political proceedings in Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume consists mostly of correspondence, with enclosures, from Samuel Manesty, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Richard Colley Wellesley, Governor-General of India, Fort William. The letters concern Manesty's unauthorised diplomatic mission to the Court of the Shah of Persia ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1803-15 Sep 1806
Extent:
1 volume (287 folios)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/169, ff 248-883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/169, ff 248-883
Title:
Preparations for the First Anglo-Afghan War
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Governor-General of India, Allahabad, Secret Department, to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 32 of 1842, dated 17 August 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-159 and are dated 17 July-16 August 1842. The enclosures c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1842
Extent:
1 item (636 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 28-137

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 28-137
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 90 of 1840, dated 30 October 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-30 and are dated 21 July to 16 October 1840. The enclosures relate to Persian ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (110 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/67/16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/16
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, to Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, to Sir Harford Jones, dated 21 April 1808, relating to his appointment as British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran]. The letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 2 June 18...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1808-Dec 1808
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)