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51. IOR/R/15/6/125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/125
Title:
File 3/4 BOOKS ETC: ROUTES IN OMAN
Scope & Content:
The file contains descriptions of eleven routes in Muscat and Oman, and the Trucial Coast, drawing on various sources of information. The entry for each route gives a general description, the distance, and the number of stages/approximate travelling time. The routes are: Dibah to Ras al Khaimah ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1935
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

52. IOR/R/15/6/217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/217
Title:
File 8/29 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: ACTIVITIES OF SAIYID TAIMUR BIN FAISAL
Scope & Content:
This file relates to the activities of Sir Sayid Taimur bin Faisal [Taymūr bin Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Sa‘īd], former Sultan of Muscat and Oman. The correspondence reports on the ex-Sultan's business interests and on his travels under the alias T F T Al Said. Most of the correspondence covers the p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1936-20 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (63 folios)

53. IOR/R/15/6/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/277
Title:
File 8/85 II MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS. MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS FOR MUSCAT.
Scope & Content:
Continuing on from the previous file (IOR/R/15/6/276), this file concerns the appointment of the Minister for Foreign Affairs for Muscat. The correspondence mainly concerns travel expenses for the newly appointed Basil Woods Ballard's journey from London to Muscat, via Bahrain. Also discussed is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1948-3 Mar 1949
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)

54. IOR/R/15/6/278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/278
Title:
File 8/85 III Muscat State Affairs. MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. for MUSCAT.
Scope & Content:
This file concerns travel arrangements for a trip to Salalah by the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Basil Woods Ballard. Also discussed briefly towards the end of the correspondence are Woods Ballard's forthcoming summer recess and leave, and arrangements for handlin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1950-31 May 1950
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

55. IOR/R/15/6/357

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/357
Title:
File [XI A/14] British Consulate Muscat
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers with the diary entries of the Political Agent in Muscat spaced at two weeks apart. They contain information on shipping, local affairs, British interests, and other powers' interests in Muscat and Oman; travels of the Sultan and his meetings with dignitaries, visitors an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1936-31 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (211 folios)

56. IOR/R/15/6/450

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/450
Title:
FILE NO. 15/3 SULEIMAN AL BARUNI AND HIS RELATIVES
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to Suleiman al Baruni and his relatives. The discussion in the file concerns: The nationality of al-Baruni who was from Libya and implications for his admission to Oman His membership of the Ibadhi sect and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1940-5 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (75 folios)

57. Mss Eur A230

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur A230
Title:
Shakespear, William Henry Irvine: diary of journey across central Arabia
Scope & Content:
A diary written by Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear recording his journey across Arabia in 1914. The volume consists of: folios 2-14: 'Accounts of Journey into Central Arabia. February, March, April, May 1914': statements of expenses incurred on the journey; folio 19: a note of the altit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 volume (328 folios)

58. Mss Eur F112/365

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/365
Title:
Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's Travels through Persia
Scope & Content:
This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes and sketches in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes mostly relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notebook begins with general notes; later folios resemble diary entries, with date headings included from folio 36 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1889-Nov 1889
Extent:

1 volume (90 folios)

59. Mss Eur F112/366

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/366
Title:
Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's travels through Persia
Scope & Content:
This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes, which follow on from an earlier notebook, Mss Eur F112/365, relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notes cover the period 25 November 1889 to 2 January 1890 and particularly ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1889-2 Jan 1890
Extent:

1 volume (90 folios)

60. Mss Eur F112/375

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/375
Title:
Notes of a journey from Kasreen to Hamadan across the Karaghan country. By J. D. Rees
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of the printed notes taken by John David Rees, Under-Secretary to the Government of Madras, during his journey between Kasveen [Qazvin] and Hamadan, Persia [Iran]. The notes were printed by the Government Press at Madras [Chennai], in October 1885. The volume contains a map ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1885
Extent:

1 volume (23 folios)