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1. IOR/L/PS/9/76/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/8
Title:
Letter from Gilbert Seton to Samuel Wilks
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Gilbert Seton, Bengal Writer, to Samuel Wilks, Clerk to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Aleppo and dated 30 April 1781. Seton describes the progress of his journey to Aleppo towards India and reports on other traveller...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1781
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/14

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/14
Title:
Letter from Gilbert Seton to Samuel Wilks
Scope & Content:
Two copies of a letter from Gilbert Seton, Bengal Writer, to Samuel Wilks, Clerk to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bussora [Basra] and dated 4 June 1781. The letter describes the progress of Seton’s journey from Aleppo to Bussora towards Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1781
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/507
Title:
PZ 2180/41 'Carriage of arms by Iranian Army & Police officials travelling in British Ships.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, External Affairs Department, the British Legation, Tehran, and the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in which the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accedes to a request to issue instructions to all members of the Iranian Army...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1941-6 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/821

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/821
Title:
Ext 2598/43 'Control of Movement of Travelers between Afghanistan and Persia'
Scope & Content:
This file consists primarily of letters and notes between the Government of Persia and the Foreign Office regarding the control and safety of travellers between Afghanistan and Persia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Agu 1943-13 May 1943
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/3807

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3807
Title:
Coll 30/88 'Question of residence of European women on the Trucial Coast.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the presence of European women in certain parts of the Persian Gulf, and fears over the effects of their interaction with local communities. Folios 19-32 relate to the concern of British officials that Imperial Airways passengers at Shargah [Sharjah] had been going into the to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1933-6 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/G49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/G49
Title:
Record of Some Travellers in Asia, East Africa and Arabia whose Works Have Been of Interest to the Government of India, Commencing from 1875
Scope & Content:
The volume is Record of Some Travellers in Asia, East Africa and Arabia whose Works Have Been of Interest to the Government of India, Commencing from 1875 (Simla: Government Monotype Press, 1910). The volume lists the names of travellers (British, Indian and 'foreigners') from 1875 up to the da...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 volume (44 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/589

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/589
Title:
‘19/2 Gerhard Augustus Frederick Briesewick - A German Student’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the activities of a German named Gerhard Augusta Frederick Briesenick believed to be a student of Berlin University, travelling to India via the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. The file contains correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 May 1933-8 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/590
Title:
‘19/3 HER EXCELLENCY LADY WILLINGDON’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, circulars and other papers relating to visits by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India (the Marquis of Willingdon, Major Freeman Freeman-Thomas) and his wife Lady Willingdon (Marie Freeman-Thomas) to Bahrain and Sharjah in May 1934, while travelling by Imper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1933-7 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (167 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/591
Title:
‘Visit of Her Excellency Lady Willingdon’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns visits made by Marie Freeman-Thomas, Marchioness of Willingdon (referred to as Lady Willingdon), wife of Freeman Freeman-Thomas, Marquess of Willingdon, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, to Bahrain and Sharjah on stopovers in June 1933. The file contains correspondence bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 May 1933-12 Jul 1933
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/592
Title:
‘19/4 LADY DOROTHY MILLS AND OTHERS’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a proposed and actual visits to the Persian Gulf by the writer Lady Dorothy Mills to countries in the Middle East in 1932 for the purpose of collecting suitable material for her literary work, with permission granted to her to travel to Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait, but not the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1932-3 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (15 folios)