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1. IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 421-509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 421-509
Title:
Affairs in Sinde, and a Journal Describing the Route from Persia [Iran] to Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
The item comprises enclosures to a despatch, Number 126 of 1839, dated 23 November 1839, from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee related to affairs in Sinde [Sindh]. It also contains a translation of a journal submitted by Major Neil Campbell, A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1839
Extent:
1 item (89 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 624-626

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 624-626
Title:
The Provision of a Passage to Liverpool for the Boiler Makers Employed on the 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 49 of 1840, dated 22 July 1840. The enclosure consists of a letter from the Superintendent of the Indian Navy, Captain Robert Oliver, to the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jul 1840
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 302-306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/117, ff 302-306
Title:
Political No. 61 of 1874, Forwarding for Information a Copy of Papers from HM Minister at Teheran to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Regarding the Projected Journey to Meshed which the Shah of Persia at One Time Proposed to Undertake
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 27 March 1874 and received in the India Office Secret Department on 18 April 1874, forwarding for information a copy of papers from HM Minister at Tehera...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1874-18 Apr 1874
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/4252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4252
Title:
Coll 37/18 'Travellers. Persian Gulf, Arab States, Arabia: Lady Dorothy Mills: Mrs Howard Clitty: Mrs M. A. Cairnes: Miss Palmer Smith: Mrs Greenway: Lady Qadir & Miss Clements.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to seven different applications to visit the Persian Gulf (mainly Kuwait, Yemen and Bahrain), which were submitted during the period 1931-35 by the following: Mrs Winifred J Howard-Clitty, Dorothy Mills, Mrs Margaret Maria...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1931-4 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/4256

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4256
Title:
Coll 37/22 'Travellers. Arabia: Rub-al-Khali. Crossing of by Mr. Bertram Thomas and Mr. H St. J. Philby.'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of handwritten letters, press cuttings and a map relating to the crossings of the Rub al Khali desert by Bertram Thomas and Harry St John Bridger Philby in the 1930s. The main topic discussed is the politics of awarding an honour to Bertram Thomas for his crossing of the Rub ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1931-23 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/E23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E23
Title:
'DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA MADE FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS AND INFORMATION COLLECTED ON THE SPOT BY CARSTEN NIEBUHR.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication containing a translation of a text entitled ‘Description of Arabia made from Personal Observations and Information Collected on the Spot by Carsten Niebuhr’. The original text by Niebuhr, in German, was published in Amsterdam and Utrecht in 1774. This translation was ca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1889
Extent:

1 volume (59 folios)