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1. IOR/F/4/762/20693

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/762/20693
Title:
‘Relative to the Occupation of the Island of Kishm vol 1’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the first in a series of two items about the island of Kishm [Qeshm] (the other is IOR/F/4/762/20694). The principal correspondents are t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 May 1819-6 Feb 1823
Extent:
1 item (93 folios)

2. IOR/F/4/762/20694

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/762/20694
Title:
‘Relative to the Occupation of the Island of Kishm vol 2’
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of correspondence, minutes, and consultations, cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. It is the second in a series of two items about the island of Kishm [Qeshm] (the other is IOR/F/4/762/20693).The principal correspondents are t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1821-6 Nov 1822
Extent:
1 item (121 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/369, ff 5A-71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/369, ff 5A-71
Title:
Treaty with the Ameers of Sind; and Persian Gulf 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 25 May 1821. The enclosures are dated 20 December 1820-12 May 1821. (Attached to folio 5 is a note, f 5a, stating that the ‘Enclosure in Bombay Secr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1821
Extent:
1 item (68 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/369, ff 112-145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/369, ff 112-145
Title:
Persian Gulf 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 9 November 1822. The enclosures are dated 6 July-1 November 1822. The enclosure comprises correspondence between Captain William Bruce, Political R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1822
Extent:
1 item (34 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/391, ff 162-381

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/391, ff 162-381
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay's Secret Department to the East India Company's Secret Committee, Number 7 of 1841, dated 31 January 1841. The enclosures are dated 26 May 1840 to 30 January 1841, and relate to the Persian Gulf. The enc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1841
Extent:
1 item (220 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/395, ff 31-38
Title:
Letter from the Imam of Muscat to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with Enclosures
Scope & Content:
This item consists of two translated copies of a letter from the Imam of Muskat [Muscat], Saeed Seyed bin Sultan [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd], also spelled Syeed Saeed Bin Sooltan in this item] to Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, dated 1 May 1841, with enclos...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 17 Jun 1841
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/23
Title:
File 351/1904 'Persian Gulf:- Erection of British flagstaffs at Musandam’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence and other papers relating to the erection (and subsequent abandonment) of flagstaffs at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the Maklab [Maqlab] Isthmus at Musandam (Musandam spelt with numerous variations throughout the file), Telegraph Island [Jazīrat al Maqlab]...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1908
Extent:

1 volume (221 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/127
Title:
File 161/1908 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf:- Abu Musa Oxide.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the disputed concession for the mining of red oxide on the island of Abu Musa [Abū Mūsá]. The main correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office and the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); and the Viceroy. The pa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
14 Dec 1907-3 Jun 1908
Extent:
1 volume (377 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/1094

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1094
Title:
File 4011/1923 Pt 1 'PERSIAN GULF NEGOTIATIONS 1928-33. BASIDU.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the British occupation of Basidu, situated on Kishm [Qeshm] Island in the Gulf, close to the south coast of Persia [Iran], and occupied by the British since the early 1820s. It is stated in the correspondence that the site had been used mainly as a coal depot for British n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
22 Oct 1923-29 Nov 1933
Extent:

1 volume (649 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/114
Title:
PZ 4718/1934 ‘Historical Memorandum on Bahrein.’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of an India Office Historical Memorandum on Bahrein [Bahrain] by John Gilbert Laithwaite, dated 14 July 1924. The memorandum is primarily concerned with the history of Bahrein from the point of view of the political status of the islands, and in particular with the claims to so...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)