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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Suez, Egypt Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/F/4/416/10288

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/416/10288
Title:
‘Trade between India, Cairo, Alexandria and Malta, prohibited. and the Provisional Treaty concluded with the Pascha of Egypt, not ratified.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay. The item is chiefly concerned with the Government of Bombay's opinions on the draft Treaty negotiated between the Pasha of Egypt and John Benzoni...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1809-29 Oct 1811
Extent:
1 item (34 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/1797/73811

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1797/73811
Title:
‘Relative to the refusal, on the part of Captain Rowband of the Steamer “Hugh Lindsay”, to convey Mr Naylor, the Packet Agent and Her Majesty’s Vice Consul at Mocha, on board that vessel from Suez to Mocha; - to Mr Naylor’s uncivil treatment towards Sheik Tyeb, the late Native Agent; - also to the seizure by him of a bugla belonging to Syed Abdool bin Assum, in consequence of a claim advanced by an individual named Majet Abdool Russool to the said vessel.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors. The item relates to activities of Sampson Naylor, Packet Agent (also called Steam...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1830-19 Dec 1838
Extent:

1 item (45 folios)

3. IOR/L/MAR/C/887

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/887
Title:
List of Passengers, Mails and Packets to and from India
Scope & Content:
The file consists of letters regarding lists of passengers, mails and packets on board individual East India Company steam ships and vessels on different voyages from India, Suez or Aden, between 1838 and 1845. The main route is that taken from Bombay to Suez via the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1838-11 Sep 1845
Extent:
1 volume (126 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 342-344

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 342-344
Title:
The Sending of Presents from the Malia Rajah of Lahore to Queen Victoria from Bombay to England via Egypt
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 133 of 1842. The enclosure is dated 5 November 1842. It consists of a letter from the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1842
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/433, ff 467-478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/433, ff 467-478
Title:
‘Transmission via Egypt and Damascus of the Indian Mail intended for Bagdad’
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-9 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 30 December 1844. The enclosures are dated 15 June-19 December 1844. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to unavoidable delays to mail forwarded to Bagdad [Baghdad] via Ale...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1844
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 171-179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 171-179
Title:
Bahrein Affairs
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses and approves the dispatch of 10th Houssars to Suez in connection with some intelligence provided by Lieutenant Colonel H C Rawlinson, Political Agent, Turkish Arabia, concerning the movements of Ahmed Offendi, the late Turkish Ambassador to the Court of Persia [Iran]. C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1854-15 Jan 1855
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

7. IOR/R/19/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/12
Title:
Accounts: 'EGYPT AND RED SEA. 35. 1838-69'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains accounts, and correspondence received by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Campbell, HM Consul-General and the East India Company’s Agent in Egypt at Alexandria, dated 5 February 1838-30 June 1869. The papers relate to events in Egypt and the Red Sea, and include: Tabulated schedul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Feb 1838-30 Jun 1869
Extent:
1 volume (504 folios)

8. IOR/R/19/13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/13
Title:
Accounts: 'EGYPT AND RED SEA. 36. 1838-69'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains accounts, and correspondence received by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Campbell, HM Consul-General and the East India Company’s Agent in Egypt at Alexandria, dated 1 January 1838-31 December 1869. The papers relate to events in Egypt and the Red Sea, and include: Tabulated sche...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jan 1838-31 Dec 1869
Extent:
1 volume (709 folios)

9. IOR/R/19/14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/14
Title:
Accounts of the Agency and Deputy Agency in Egypt
Scope & Content:
The file contains duplicate accounts and correspondence received by Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Campbell, HM Consul General and the East India Company’s Agent in Egypt at Alexandria, dated 30 September 1848-31 December 1869. The papers relate to events in Egypt and the Red Sea, and include: Tabula...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1848-31 Dec 1869
Extent:
1 file (174 folios)

10. IOR/R/19/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/22
Title:
Letters Received by the Agent in Egypt
Scope & Content:
This volume contains records of the expenses incurred and payments received by British agents and the Packet Agency at Cairo from 22 January 1838 to 8 November 1859. It includes the dates of the transactions, details of the transactions themselves, and the amounts of money given in piastres. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1838-8 Nov1859
Extent:
1 volume (332 folios)