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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Communications security

1. IOR/L/PS/5/372, ff 90-94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/372, ff 90-94
Title:
Mail Packets from Bussorah Opened by 'Arabs'
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 6 dated 1838. Annotated ‘Received per Malta 5 December 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated 13-29 June 1838. The paper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/71/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/8
Title:
Copy of a Letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, David Wilson, in Bushire, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, David Wilson, in Bushire [Bushehr], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 18 April 1827. In the letter Wilson reports that a courier carrying a packet of letters has been r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Apr 1827
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/304
Title:
File 3893/1912 'Persia: Bakhtiari Khans and the Lynch Road; Bakhtiari-Mohammerah relations'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda and notes relating to the security on the Ahwaz to Isfahan Road (this road was also known as the Lynch Road). It also contains correspondence concerning the relations between the Bakhtiari clans and the Shaikh of Mohammerah ov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1913
Extent:
1 volume (152 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/670
Title:
‘File 28/1 Q Provision of armed guard for British Overseas Airways Corporation Limited; Cable & Wireless etc.’
Scope & Content:
The first part of the file (ff 2-6), containing correspondence dated 1940, chiefly from the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Station Superintendent at Bahrain, concerns the provision of armed guards as an anti-sabotage measure for BOAC aircraft on night stops at Bahrain. The correspon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1940-25 Aug 1943
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)