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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Perim Island, Red Sea

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/8
Title:
Defences of Aden and Perim.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains extracts from the Military Proceedings of the Government of India, consisting of correspondence, reports, tables and statements relating to defences, fortifications, batteries and barracks at Aden and Perim Island. The principal correspondents are the Secretary to the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1882
Extent:

1 volume (28 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 410-441

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 410-441
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 23 dated 2 April 1856. The enclosures are dated 29 November 1855-2 April 1856. The primary correspondents are Brigadier William Marcus Coghla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1856
Extent:
1 item (32 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 305-323

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 305-323
Title:
Measures for the Suppression of the Trade in Enslaved Persons
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 42 of 1856, dated 10 June 1856. The enclosures are dated 19 December 1855-7 June 1856. The enclosures chiefly comprise despatches from Brigadier William Marcus ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1856
Extent:
1 item (19 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 138-147

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 138-147
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 10 dated 16 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 29 December 1856-13 January 1857. The papers comprise: A letter from Brigadier William Ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 279-291

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 279-291
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 21 dated 2 February 1857. The enclosures are dated 13-29 January 1857. The enclosures comprise despatches from: Brigadier William Marcus Cog...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1857
Extent:
1 item (13 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/495, ff 393-479

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/495, ff 393-479
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 43 of 1858, dated 23 April 1858. The enclosures are numbered 3-21 and are dated 24 February-22 April 1858. The papers relate to affairs in Aden ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1858
Extent:
1 item (87 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/1478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1478
Title:
Coll 1/42 'Aden. Changes in civil administration in the event of separation from India: lighthouses'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly), the India Office, and the Government of India Department of Commerce, regarding the administration of lighthouses and related dues. The correspondence concerns the lighthouses at Aden and Perim: the Elephant'...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1933-21 Dec 1936
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/1497

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1497
Title:
Coll 1/59 'Aden. Lease of the Perim Coal Company at Perim: future of Perim and provision of a wireless set'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the operation of certain businesses on Perim, negotiations for their withdrawal from the island, and arrangements for the Government of India to assume responsibility for maintaining essential services previously provided by the companies. The papers primaril...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1935-21 Oct 1937
Extent:
1 file (456 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/4129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4129
Title:
Coll 35/23 'Arabia: establishment of cable communication between Shaikh Said and Perim'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the re-establishment of cable communication between Sheikh Said and the island of Perim [Yemen], proposed by the ruler of Yemen in 1932, and negotiations with Eastern Telegraph Company Limited. The file contains correspondence between: the Eastern Telegraph Company Limited; th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jan 1932-26 Nov 1936
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B110/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B110/1
Title:
Sheikh Said. Memorandum in Continuation of Departmental Memorandum of 7th March 1893. (With Sketch Map.)
Scope & Content:
A memorandum written by Edmund Neel, Political and Secret Department, India Office, in continuation of a previous memorandum [IOR/L/PS/18/B60], in which the Resident at Aden is urged to ascertain the present situation at Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd] following fears that the French Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1897
Extent:

1 item (5 folios)