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1. IOR/G/29/32

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32
Title:
Papers Relating to Sir Harford Jones's Residency at Bagdad [Baghdad] and his Diplomatic Mission to Persia [Iran]
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, abridgements, and other papers relating to Sir Harford Jones’s Residency in Bagdad [Baghdad], 1798-1806, and his diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran], 1807-1811. The papers cover a wide range of matters, mostly connected to the following: Jones’s mission to Per...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1794-1811
Extent:
1 volume (715 folios)

2. IOR/H/733

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/H/733
Title:
Papers of Sir John Malcolm relating to Persia and central India
Scope & Content:
The papers relate to Malcolm’s diplomatic Mission in Persia [Iran] 1810 and relations with Sir Harford Jones, HM Ambassador to Persia (folios 7-148). The remainder of the volume relates to Malcolm’s activities in Central India as Political Agent to the Governor-General of India, following the Pi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1808-26 Feb 1819
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/5/806

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/806
Title:
Memoranda and papers by General Herbert Vaughan Cox, Military Secretary to the India Office, regarding British military strategy in Central Asia and the Middle East
Scope & Content:
The file chiefly comprises typescript and some manuscript copies of letters, memoranda, notes and minutes by General Herbert Vaughan Cox. There are three letters to Cox from external correspondents, some printed memoranda and one cutting from the Morning Post. Folios 1-2 comprise a list of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-8 Jan 1920
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/36
Title:
Expenditure on Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia, 1918 to 1921
Scope & Content:
This previously secret file, compiled by the India Office, contains various papers relating to expenditure on the Malleson Mission and troops in East Persia between 1918 and 1921. The file opens with a note about the contents of the file, and is followed by an India Office Political Department ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/129, ff 534-766

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/129, ff 534-766
Title:
Affairs in Sinde, Lahore and Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department (Fort William) to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1838, dated 21 February 1838. The enclosures are dated 7 August-25 November 1837. The primary correspondents are: Lieutena...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1838
Extent:
1 item (233 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 407-545

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 407-545
Title:
Afghanistan and Persia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department (Camp at Kurnaul [Karnal]) to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 11 of 1838, dated 22 May 1838. The enclosures are dated 18 January-22 May 1838. The item comprises despatches betwe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 May 1838
Extent:
1 item (139 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 244-279

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 244-279
Title:
Afghanistan and Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 39 of 1856, dated 27 May 1856. The enclosures are dated 22 March-23 May 1856. The enclosures notably comprise the following: A despatch from the Secretary to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 May 1856
Extent:

1 item (36 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/384
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf Situation in El Katr Policy towards Bin Saud'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains part 1 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] following the latter's occupation of Ottoman-ruled El Hassa [Al Hasa] and Nejd [Najd]. Much of the correspondence is concerned with how B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 May 1913-15 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 volume (155 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/385

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/385
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf Situation in El Katr Policy towards Bin Saud'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains part 2 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It primarily concerns British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] following the latter's occupation of Ottoman-ruled El Hassa [Al Hasa]. Included in the volume are the following: an account of a ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Nov 1913-22 Nov 1916
Extent:
1 volume (269 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/386

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/386
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf Katr Treaty'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains part 3 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It concerns a treaty between Britain and El Katr (also spelled Katar in the file) [Qatar]. In a copy of a telegram to the Secretary of State for India, dated 13 August 1913, the Viceroy of India acknowledges the former's wish to negotia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1913-11 Sep 1918
Extent:
1 volume (122 folios)