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771. Mss Eur F126/48, f 31

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/48, f 31
Title:
‘SKETCH of the GULF OF PERSIA Showing the seven Classes of Jurisdictions enumerated in my letter No. 67 of 13th April 1863’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Lithographed in the Quarter Master Generals Office, Poona, 2 June 1863. Distinctive Features: The sketch map shows the rough boundaries and areas of responsibility of the seven principal groups of tribes and peoples living around the coast of the Gulf as given in Lewis Pelly's report...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
02 Jun 1863
Extent:
1 map

772. Mss Eur F126/103

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/103
Title:
Sketch of the Gulf of Persia Showing the seven Classes of Jurisdictions enumerated in my letter No.67 of 13 April 1863
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Lithographed in the Quarter Master Generals Office, Poona, 2 June 1863. Distinctive Features: The seven classes of jurisdiction are labelled in red ink, with their boundaries marked with red pecked lines. The map was drawn up to accompany Letter No. 67 of 1863 written by Lewis Pell...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1863
Extent:

1 map

773. Mss Eur F226/7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/7
Title:
Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service
Scope & Content:
This file contains a photocopy of a typewritten draft of Sir John Richard Cotton's (b 1909) memoirs of his time in the Indian military and civil service. The memoirs, which were written when the author was 'in his seventy-fourth year', cover his time in the Indian Army, at Aden, Ethiopia, Attock...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1983?
Extent:

1 file (78 folios)

774. Mss Eur F226/13

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/13
Title:
"NO MEDALS THIS TIME" by Sir Tom Hickinbotham, KCMG, KCVO, CIE, OBE
Scope & Content:
This volume is a set of typewritten memoirs by Sir Tom Hickinbotham, a retired officer of the British Indian Army and the Indian Political Service. Hickinbotham held various positions in India and in the Middle East, and these memoirs recount stories from his time in Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1982?
Extent:

1 volume (168 folios)

775. Mss Eur F226/23

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F226/23
Title:
A Grandfather's Tale: Memoirs being mainly concerned with service in the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service in India and the Persian Gulf from 1932-1947
Scope & Content:
A memoir written by Major Hugh Dunstan Holwell Rance about his career in the Indian Army and the Indian Political Service (IPS), 1932-47. The memoir details: His childhood and education His service in the Indian Army, 1932-36 and 1940-43 His service in the IPS, 1936-40, at Baroda [Vadodara], Si...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1984
Extent:

1 file (57 folios)

776. Mss Eur F377/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F377/1
Title:
Manuscript Journals.
Scope & Content:
This volume is Volume I (of two) of the manuscript travel journals of John Bax. The volume describes Bax's voyage from England to Bombay in 1812; travels in India in 1815-17; voyage and journey to Rusool Khyma [Ra's al-Khaymah] in Arabia, to Bushire in Persia, and through Shiraz, Isfahan, Kerman...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1825
Extent:
1 volume (280 folios)

777. Photo 355/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 355/1
Title:
Dunlop Smith Collection: Sir Charles Aitchison Album of Views in India and Burma
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: The album contains landscape and architectural views of locations in India, the Persian Gulf, Burma, Florence, China (Yarkand in the latter-day Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region), Zanzibar, the Andaman Islands, Balochistan, Scotland as well as group and individual portrait...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1860s-1880s
Extent:
232 b&w photographic prints, other printed material and 4 watercolour drawings, bound into a green and brown half leather album

778. WD3110, f 1a

Reference (shelfmark):
WD3110, f 1a
Title:
'His Majesty’s experimental frigate Vernon drawn at sea Jany. 10th 1834 in Persian Gulf' by Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801–63)
Scope & Content:
Genre/Subject Matter: This detailed maritime scene shows the experimental frigate Vernon at sea in the Persian Gulf in January 1834. In the background high, white cliffs are visible at left. A smaller boat, perhaps a dhow, flies a red flag at left. The frigate flies a Red Ensign as well as a re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1834
Extent:
1 watercolour drawing on paper

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