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11. IOR/L/PS/9/67/80

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/80
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Head of Mission to Persia, to the Chairman of the Court of Directors
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, received in July 1810. The letter concerns route surveys on the frontiers of Persia conducted on Malcolm’s orders...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1810
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/9/67/81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/81
Title:
Enclosure in a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm to the Secret Committee, received July 1810
Scope & Content:
A copy of the journal of a route through Makran [Makrān] to Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ‘Abbās] taken by Captain Grant of the Bengal Native Infantry between 29 January and 28 April 1809, as part of a series of route surveys on the frontiers of Persia ordered by Brigadier-General John Malcolm. The j...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1810
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/9/67/82

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/82
Title:
Enclosure in a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm to the Secret Committee, received July 1810
Scope & Content:
A printed map to illustrate the route through Makran [Makrān] taken by Captain Grant of the Bengal Native Infantry between 29 January and 28 April 1809, as part of a series of route surveys on the frontiers of Persia [Iran] ordered by Brigadier-General John Malcolm. Covers a coastal area of appr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1810
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

14. IOR/L/PS/9/67/86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/86
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Head of Mission to Persia, to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, former Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 6 October 1810. The letter transmits maps and journals of ro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1810
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/10/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/135
Title:
File 758/1908 'Arabia: Travellers - Mr G W Bury'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, notes and press cuttings relating to the movements of the explorer and naturalist, George Wyman Bury. The majority of the correspondence is between Bury himself, the India Office, the Government of India, the Government of Bombay, and the Political Residency at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1915
Extent:
1 volume (229 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/10/259

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/259
Title:
File 1202/1912 'Arabia:- Travellers. Capt. F. F Hunter. Herr Runkiar (Danish Expedition). Capt Shakespear.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns expeditions by British officers and by the Royal Danish Geographical Society into the interior of Arabia. The papers cover: plans by the Royal Danish Geographical Society to explore the countries around the Persian Gulf, 1909; the refusal of British officials to sanction a p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1908-5 Mar 1920
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/10/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/657
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 1 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 1 to 65’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin numbers 1-65 produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (616 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/1507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1507
Title:
Coll 1/70 'Aden. Oil concessions in the Aden Protectorate'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding a request by Petroleum Concessions Limited to be allowed to survey areas of the Aden Protectorate for oil exploration purposes. The file includes a formal request received from the company, plus details of a meeting held between a company representati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Nov 1936-6 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/12/2153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2153
Title:
Coll 6/80 'South and South-Western boundaries of Saudi-Arabia'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the disputed south and south-western boundaries of Saudi Arabia. It primarily concerns an expedition to southern Saudi Arabia that was undertaken by Harry St John Bridger Philby in 1936, during which Philby was reported to have entered Yemeni and British territory. Much of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1936-1 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/20/122

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/122
Title:
‘Notes of a journey made between Shiraz and Jashk, via Fassa, Darab, Bandar Abbas, and Minab.’
Scope & Content:
Confidential notes of a journey made through Persia [Iran] from Shiraz to Jashk [Jāsk], via Fassa [Fasā], Dārāb, Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] and Mīnāb, by John Richard Preece, Assistant Superintendent of the Telegraph Department, Persia. The report was published by the Intelligence Branch, Of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1884
Extent:

1 volume (26 folios)