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1. IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 300-322

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 300-322
Title:
Sending Iron Steamers on Board the Urania for Service on the Euphrates and Tigris
Scope & Content:
The item comprises enclosures to a despatch, Number 123 of 1839, dated 20 November 1839, from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee on the subject of sending iron steamers from England on board the merchant ship Urania for service on the rivers Eup...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1839
Extent:
1 item (23 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 744-1021

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 744-1021
Title:
Affairs in Various Places in Asia
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 54 of 1840, dated 23 July 1840. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-107. There is a note on folio 745 stating that...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1840
Extent:
1 item (278 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 432-449

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 432-449
Title:
‘The Flotilla on the River Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 2-10 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 December 1842. The enclosures are dated 17 November-29 December 1842. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the withdrawal of the steam flotilla on the Euphrates and the trans...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1842
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/6/111, ff 111-123a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/111, ff 111-123a
Title:
Political No. 143 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of Papers Relating to the Transfer to Bussorah of the Depot at Maaghil, on the Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 11 August 1873 and received by the India Office Political Department on 8 September 1873, forwarding copies of papers relating to the transfer to Bussora...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1873-8 Sep 1873
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 2-7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/114, ff 2-7
Title:
Political No. 200 of 1873, Forwarding Further Particulars Respecting the Abandoned Depot at Maaghil on the Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 21 November 1873 and received by the India Office Political Department on 15 December 1873, forwarding copies of a letter from the Political Agent in Tu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Nov 1873-15 Dec 1873
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/6/116, ff 383-387

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/116, ff 383-387
Title:
General No. 5 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of a Report of a Tour Recently Made by the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia to Busreh, Mahomrah, and the Head-Quarters of Nasir Pasha at Hamar, on the Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 20 February 1874 and received by the India Office via Brindisi on 16 March 1874, forwarding a copy of a report of a tour recently made by the Political ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1874-16 Mar 1874
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 312-316

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 312-316
Title:
Political No. 63 of 1874, Forwarding a Copy of a Letter from the Consul-General at Baghdad, Regarding the Construction of the Embankment of the Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 2 April 1874 and received in the India Office Secret Department on 27 April 1874, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Consul-General at Baghdad, rega...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1874-27 April 1874
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 195-201

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/693, ff 195-201
Title:
Persian Gulf, River Euphrates: Commodore Jenkins visit to the -.
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch Volume 27 of 23 May 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1858-23 May 1859
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/610-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/610-615
Title:
File 73: Routes and Railways in Persia and Arabia
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, maps, newspaper cuttings, and other documents relating to the planning and building of the Baghdad Railway and its extension to Basra. Questions addressed within the files are those of ownership and control (contested between Germany, Britain, the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1911-1919
Extent:

6 files and volumes (1107 folios)

10. IOR/X/3174

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3174
Title:
'The line of Route as traversed by Lieut[enan]t. Rob[er]t. Taylor 2nd. Mad[ra]s. Cavalry from Bagdad to Bussorah via the antient [ancient] canal of the Hye'
Scope & Content:
Covers a 350-mile river route in Mesopotamia between Bagdad [Baghdad, Iraq] and Bussorah [Basra, Iraq] via the River Tigris, Hye Canal [Shatt al Gharraf, Iraq] and River Euphrates. Portrays hydrology, settlements and place names, and includes topographical and navigational notes, and some pictor...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1813
Extent:

1 map sheet