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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Abyssinia, Africa

1. IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 91-108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 91-108
Title:
Abyssinia Affairs
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 3-13 to dispatch no. 5 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 March 1861. The enclosures are dated January-February 1861. Received 5 April 1861. The enclosures consist of letters from Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident, Aden; the Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1861
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 172-175

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 172-175
Title:
Abyssinia Affairs
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 3-4 to dispatch no. 16 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 April 1861. The enclosures are dated 2-25 March 1861. Received 24 May 1861. The first enclosure is a letter from the Solicitor to Government, Bombay, advising the Government of Bombay not to proceed with ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1861
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 168-171

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 168-171
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 3-4 to dispatch no. 15 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 April 1861. The enclosures are dated 2 April 1861. Received 20 May 1861. The enclosures consist of intelligence reports on Abyssinia [Ethiopia] and Aden by Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Polit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1861
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 85-86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/506, ff 85-86
Title:
Operations against Abyssinian Rebels in Tigre
Scope & Content:
Enclosure no. 3 to dispatch no. 3 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 12 February 1861. The enclosure is dated 1861. Received 8 March 1861. The enclosure consists of a letter from Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident, Aden, concerning operations by King The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1861
Extent:
1 item (2 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/20/C126/1, f 394

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1, f 394
Title:
‘To Illustrate the Rise of Islam’
Scope & Content:
The map sheet is one of seven maps included in IOR/L/PS/20/C126/1. It depicts the areas affected by the early expansion of Islam, extending from Armenia in the north to Yemen in the south, and from Persia [Iran] in the east to Egypt in the west. Portrays the routes of major rivers and relief b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 map sheet

8. IOR/L/PS/10/447

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/447
Title:
File 959/1914 Pt 1-2 'Abyssinia O. in C.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to Articles 37 and 56 of the Abyssinia Order in Council 1913, which concern persons being sent for trial or imprisonment to Aden or Bombay. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subjec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1929
Extent:

1 volume (477 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)