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1. IOR/F/4/1148/30305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1148/30305
Title:
‘Unfriendly conduct of the Dola of Mocha towards the Surat Merchants’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of extracts of Political Letters and Political Consultations from the Government of Bombay concerned with the action taken by the Resident at Mocha, Captain Bagnold, in response to a dispute between Surat merchants and the Dola [Governor] of Mocha. The dispute relates to outsta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Feb 1823-24 May 1828
Extent:
1 item (77 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/1929/82840

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/1929/82840
Title:
‘Mocha. Certain Surat merchants request that protection may be afforded to their Agents & merchandize in the Red Sea’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; merchants from Surat; William Augustus Pelly, Collector of Continental Customs and E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1840-25 Aug 1841
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

3. IOR/L/MAR/B/237G

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/B/237G
Title:
York: Journal
Scope & Content:
The journal of a voyage to the East Indies on board the ship York by Captain Peter Lascelles. The journal contains: The ‘List of Officers & Seamen on board the ship York from England to the East Indies 1760’ (ff 2-4) The ‘Names [and] Quality [of] Passengers’ (f 4) The Members of ‘Coll: Moris...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1760-4 Mar 1763
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

4. IOR/L/MAR/C/586

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/586
Title:
Survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company's Cruiser Ternate
Scope & Content:
A survey of the East Coast of Africa by Captain Thomas Smee and Lieutenant Henry Hardy in the East India Company cruisers the Ternate and the Sylph (1810-1811). Folios 23-142 contain a report of proceedings on board the Ternate, 1 January-25 September 1811. The report contains: The daily entri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1811
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

5. IOR/L/MAR/C/901

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MAR/C/901
Title:
Miscellaneous Marine Papers
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of various documents mostly relating to East India Company shipping. The documents include the following: Correspondence relating to surviving passengers who had been on board the shipwrecked Dutch East India Company ship Woestduyn, and various receipts for related expens...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
c 1723-c 1810
Extent:
1 volume (368 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/424, ff 356-369

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/424, ff 356-369
Title:
Bagdad Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 72 of 1843, dated 2 October 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 1-21 September 1843. The papers concern the conduct of the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Oct 1843
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/464, ff 1a-9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/464, ff 1a-9
Title:
Aden 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 29 of 1850, dated 11 May 1850. Enclosure No. 3, dated 28 April 1850, is a letter from the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1850
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 47-60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 47-60
Title:
Affairs at Aden and Within its Vicinity, and at Hodeida
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1853, dated 13 January 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-9. Enclosure numbers 3-6 are dated 12 December 1852 to 5 January 1853. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1853-c 2 Nov 1906
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/76/143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/143
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to John Malcolm
Scope & Content:
Copies of four letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], sent from Bagdad and dated 20 November-30 December 1800. The correspondence mainly concerns Jones's attempts to procure finance for Malcolm's missi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1800-30 Dec 1800
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3745

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3745
Title:
Coll 30/31 'Hasa Coast; Entry of Hindu Merchants into Hasa; Attitude of Ibn Saud'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence pertaining to the re-entry of Hindu merchants to al-Hasa and Qatif after a number of them had been ordered to leave in 1928. The majority of the correspondence in the file is between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of letters that were...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Apr 1928-30 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)