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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 43-44
Title:: Memorandum of Intelligence from Candahar
Scope & Content:: The memorandum, dated 18 May 1839, Kurrachee [Karachi], comprises a report by a merchant who left Candahar [Kandahar] on 29 April. It covers: the arrival of the British Army of the Indus at Candahar on 23 April 1839, the ‘submission’ of local chiefs to Shah Shoojah [Shāh Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrāni];...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 May 1839
Extent:: 1 item (2 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 45-86
Title:: Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:: The item mainly relates to affairs in the Persian Gulf. It chiefly comprises copies of despatches of Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident, Persian Gulf, to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], with relevant enclosures, such as letters to and from Hennell, ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Apr 1839-12 Jun 1839
Extent:: 1 item (42 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 87-103
Title:: Afghanistan Affairs
Scope & Content:: This item relates to the British-led invasion of Afghanistan. It comprises a letter dated 23 May 1839, from Thomas Herbert Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], forwarding a copy of a new...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 May 1839-20 Jun 1839
Extent:: 1 item (16 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 104-130
Title:: Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:: This item comprises correspondence between Thomas Herbert Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, and John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], with relevant enclosures, and minutes of the Governors in Council. The enclosures comprise...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Jun 1839-20 Jun 1839
Extent:: 1 item (26 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 216-221
Title:: Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:: The item comprises: Two letters from Thomas Henry Maddock, Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], notably relating to: British policy regarding the potential conflict between the Sheik of Bahrein [...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 May 1839-4 Jul 1839
Extent:: 1 item (5 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 222-261
Title:: Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:: Folios 223-240 chiefly comprise correspondence and minutes of senior legal, financial and administrative officials of the Government in Bombay [Mumbai], and the Secretary to the Government of India, with the Governor-General. The main subjects covered are: The legality of sending convicts to Ad...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 May 1839-4 Jul 1839
Extent:: 1 item (40 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 262-278
Title:: Afghanistan Affairs, Muscat Affairs, and Memorandum of Intelligence ('Newsletter')
Scope & Content:: This item comprises three separate documents, as follows: General Orders issued by Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Indus (published in the London Gazette 30 August 1839), congratulating the army and its commanders on the capture of Candahar [Kandahar] an...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 May 1839-4 Jul 1839
Extent:: 1 item (17 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 279-409
Title:: Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:: This item consists of a despatch to the Secret Committee, 16 July 1839, from John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai]. The despatch itself (not included) is numbered 1 and is followed by an abstract of contents, numbered 2. The abstract of contents is followed by des...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 10 May 1839-16 Jul 1839
Extent:: 1 item (130 folios)

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