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1. IOR/F/4/2519/144526

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2519/144526
Title:
‘Egyptian Mission. Proceedings of Government in connection with the Mission by the Viceroy of Egypt of His Excellency Bechet Aga to Muskat and Bahrein. Vol: 2’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, memoranda, resolutions, and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The main correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Beghet Agha [Bahjat Āghā; also spelt Behjet and Behget], an agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1853-21 Apr 1853
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/129, ff 4-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/129, ff 4-27
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 2 of 1838, dated 7 February 1838. The enclosures are dated 17 July-29 November 1837. The item relates to Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] and cov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1838
Extent:
1 item (24 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 109-112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 109-112
Title:
'Notes on Memo. Submitted on Iron Steam Vessels'.
Scope & Content:
Copy of a memorandum regarding the unsuitability of iron steam vessels for use on the Euphrates and Indus rivers. (With a note in pencil, by unknown author, criticizing the tone of the memorandum and asking for another opinion).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c May 1839
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 16-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 16-27
Title:
Euphrates Expedition
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 89 of 1840, dated 30 October 1840. The enclosure consists of a memorandum by John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 415-444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/414, ff 415-444
Title:
Euphrates Flotilla
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 136 of 1842, dated 29 November 1842. The enclosures are numbered 3-16 and are dated 7 October to 30 November 1842. They consist of papers, mainly...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1842
Extent:
1 item (30 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 203-211

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/487, ff 203-211
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 35 of 1856, dated 10 May 1856. The enclosure is dated 20 March 1856. The enclosure comprises a copy of a despatch from Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Politi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 May 1856
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/88/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88/2
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 2 ‘Mesopotamia:- Navigation of Tigris + Euphrates; Euphrates + Tigris Steam Navigation Co; Hamidieh Co.’
Scope & Content:
Part 2 of the volume is comprised of copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the proposed merger of the Turkish-Government-operated Hamidieh Steamship Company and the British company, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as the Lynch Company, ETSNC). ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905-1911
Extent:
1 item (315 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/3741

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3741
Title:
Coll 30/27 'Persian Gulf: Shipping, Steamer Services from Karachi to Bahrein, Lingah, etc'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding freight charges, ports of call and other administrative matters related to shipping routes in - and through - the Persian Gulf. Specific matters discussed include a request by Kalat State for the British India Steam Navigati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 Aug 1931-31 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (77 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B160
Title:
‘Baghdad Railway.’
Scope & Content:
Printed confidential memorandum (B 160), written by Major Lindsay Sherwood Newmarch, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia, dated 18 December 1906. The memorandum addresses the associated risks and benefits to be incurred and gained from not being involved in the construction of the Baghdad railw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1906
Extent:

4 folios

10. IOR/R/15/2/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/15
Title:
File B/4 Flag flying by Wonckhaus, Gray Paul and other Companies
Scope & Content:
The letters, memoranda and other items in the file relate to requests made by steamship companies in Bahrain, to the ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, to erect flagstaffs and fly flags on their office buildings, primarily for the purpose of communicating signals to steamships e...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1906-15 May 1917
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)