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1. IOR/F/4/2157/103843

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2157/103843
Title:
‘Aden. Slave dealing.’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence which form partial enclosures to a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 12 November 1845. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2157/103838 and further enclosures to t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Nov 1843-17 Apr 1844
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/2475/138724

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2475/138724
Title:
‘Persian Gulf. Bahrein. Plunder of two boats of, by the Chief of Junnah. Proceedings in consequence’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, a Political Letter from the Government of Bombay to the East India Company Court of Directors, 31 March 1852, and found at IOR/F/4/2475/138723. It is the second in a series of eight items about the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1851-5 Mar 1852
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/392, ff 519-596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/392, ff 519-596
Title:
Aden and Mocha Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 19 of 1841, dated 27 March 1841. The enclosures are dated 19 January to 27 March 1841, and relate to Aden and Mocha. They mostly consist of copies of corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1841
Extent:
1 item (78 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 9-136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 9-136
Title:
Persian Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 116 of 1846, dated 12 October 1846. The enclosures, numbered 3-6 and dated 12 May to 15 July 1846, relate to Persian [Iranian] affairs. Enclosu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Oct 1846
Extent:
1 item (128 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 553-647

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 553-647
Title:
Affairs in Persia and Herat
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 26 of 1853, dated 31 March 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 12 February 1853. The enclosure is a letter from HM Envoy E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item (95 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 2-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/490, ff 2-30
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 1 dated 1 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 9 November-29 December 1856. The papers relate to the conclusion of a treaty with the Habr A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1857
Extent:
1 item (29 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/447

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/447
Title:
File 959/1914 Pt 1-2 'Abyssinia O. in C.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to Articles 37 and 56 of the Abyssinia Order in Council 1913, which concern persons being sent for trial or imprisonment to Aden or Bombay. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subjec...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1929
Extent:

1 volume (477 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/465
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 5 ‘German War. Turkey. Hodeida consuls incident’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to the incarceration by Turkish authorities of the British Vice-Consul at Hodeida (also spelt Hodeidah) [Al-Ḥudaydah], George Alexander Richardson, Richardson’s wife, Mary Richardson, and the French Vice-Consul at Hodeida, Monsieur Roux, in the wake of the destruction of a Turkis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1914-16 Apr 1917
Extent:

1 volume (164 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/582

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/582
Title:
File 334/1916 Pt 1 ‘German War – Persia. Shiraz Prisoners – Major O’Connor’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the arrest at Shiraz by the Persian gendarmerie on 10 November 1915 of HM Consul at Shiraz (Major William Frederick Travers O’Connor), the Manager and other employees of the Imperial Bank of Persia at Shiraz, the Superintendent of the Shiraz section and other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Nov 1915-4 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 volume (260 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/833/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/833/1
Title:
File 2879/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA Kurdistan: The Suleimanieh Outbreak’
Scope & Content:
This item relates to the seizure of the ‘reins of government’ (f 283) in Suleimaniyeh [As Sulaymaniyah, also spelled Suleman Iyeh in this item], south Kurdistan, 25 May 1919, during an uprising led by Sheikh Mahmud [Shaikh Maḥmūd Barzanjī], and British military operations leading to the British M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1919-22 Dec 1921
Extent:
1 item (78 folios)