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11. IOR/L/PS/12/1474

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1474
Title:
Coll 1/38 'Aden. Changes in civil administration in the event of separation from India: mail contract; call of steamers at Aden'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly), the India Office Political Department, the Government of India Foreign and Political Department, and the Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, regarding the mail service to Aden. It is agreed that, if possi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1933-21 Dec 1936
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/6/409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/409
Title:
File 12/3 II RAS-AL-HADD MAIL SERVICE PROPOSAL
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the improvement of the mail service in Muscat and Oman. Muscat was said in 1944 to have been 'ill supplied with mail facilities for many months, resulting in serious delays in delivery of official mail and excessive expenditure on telegrams' (folio 45). The commer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1943-16 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)

13. IOR/R/19/22

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/22
Title:
Letters Received by the Agent in Egypt
Scope & Content:
This volume contains records of the expenses incurred and payments received by British agents and the Packet Agency at Cairo from 22 January 1838 to 8 November 1859. It includes the dates of the transactions, details of the transactions themselves, and the amounts of money given in piastres. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1838-8 Nov1859
Extent:
1 volume (332 folios)

14. IOR/R/19/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/23
Title:
Egypt & Red Sea 38, 1838-59
Scope & Content:
This volume contains records of the expenses incurred and payments received by British agents and the Packet Agency at Cairo from 13 January 1838 to 30 September 1859. It includes the dates of the transactions, details of the transactions themselves, and the amounts of money given in Piastres. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jan 1838-30 Sep 1859
Extent:
1 volume (661 folios)

15. IOR/R/19/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/19/24
Title:
Cairo Packet Agency A/C Current and Mail Charges, 1838-1859
Scope & Content:
This file is divided into two sections, titled 'Cairo Packet Agency, A/C Current' and 'Cairo Packet Agency, Mail Charges', and contains the accounts current and mail charges of the Cairo Packet Agency, from January 1838 through September and March 1859 respectively. The accounts current and mail...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1838- Sep 1859
Extent:
1 file (533 folios)