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1. IOR/F/4/290/6518

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/290/6518
Title:
Captain Rudland deputed to the Gulph [Gulf] of Arabia on a political and commercial Mission, assisted by Mr. Benzoni an Italian.
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay and the Government of Bengal. The item relates to the decision to re-establish a Resident or Agent of the East India Company at Mocha in or...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Feb 1803-15 Apr 1809
Extent:
1 item (60 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/416/10286

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/416/10286
Title:
‘Territorial settlement in Abyssinia – inexpedient’
Scope & Content:
The title given above is an amended title. The original title, ‘Prohibition of a Trade with Abyssinia and the Governor of Tigrée, on the part of the Company’, which is written in ink, has been partly crossed out, and the title given above has been added in pencil. The item consists of copies an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1809-29 Oct 1811
Extent:

1 item (29 folios)

3. IOR/F/4/479/11531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/479/11531
Title:
‘Report of Mr Forbes the Agent at Mocha relative to Mr Mungo Park.’
Scope & Content:
This item consists mostly of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, letters to and from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The primary subjects are: Reports of the appearance of a lone European in Abyssinia [the Ethiopian Empire] who is travelling in the direction of the Red Sea, a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1810-1 Nov 1814
Extent:
1 item (26 folios)

4. IOR/F/4/1913/81810

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1913/81810
Title:
‘Slave Trade – Carried on between Abyssinia & the different Ports in the Red Sea.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence enclosed within letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], the India Board, and the Foreign Office. The item relates to: Suggestions by the above correspondents for suppressing the trade in enslaved people from the coasts of Abyssin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1837-7 Aug 1841
Extent:

1 item (21 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/405, ff 364-436

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/405, ff 364-436
Title:
Affairs in Aden and its Hinterland, the Gulf of Aden, and the Lower Part of the Red Sea Coast
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 32 of 1842, dated 31 March 1842. The enclosures are dated 24 February to 31 March 1842. They consist of a general report by the Political Agent a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1842
Extent:
1 item (73 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/413, ff 388-547

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/413, ff 388-547
Title:
The Mission to Shoa
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 115 of 1842, dated 15 October 1842. The enclosures are dated 4 July to 14 October 1842, and relate to the mission to Shoa [Shewa]. The enclosure...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1842
Extent:
1 item (160 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 196-208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/449, ff 196-208
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 12 of 1847, dated 30 January 1847. The enclosures are dated 1 December 1846-28 January 1847. The correspondents are: Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1847
Extent:
1 item (13 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 63-68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 63-68
Title:
Aden 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 6 of 1850, dated 4 February 1850. The enclosed papers, dated 15 January to 4 February 1850, concern affairs in the Aden Settlement and Protect...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1850
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 108-117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 108-117
Title:
Aden Affairs: Red Sea and Abyssinia
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 10 of 1850, dated 16 February 1850. The enclosed papers, dated 19 December 1849 to 15 February 1850, concern affairs in Abyssinia [Ethiopia an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1850
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/5/464, ff 253-266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/464, ff 253-266
Title:
Aden 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 37 of 1850, dated 25 July 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-8, and are dated 16 June to 15 July 1850. The enclosures consist of a minute from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 July 1850
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)