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5151. IOR/L/PS/9/66A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/66A
Title:
Political and Secret Letters and Enclosures Received from the Persian Gulf , Vol 5
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, minutes, and reports relating to mainly political and economic affairs of the Persian Gulf region. The correspondence consists of despatches, with enclosed letters and reports, from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident and Consul General...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1881-1 Feb 1882
Extent:
1 volume (454 folios)

5152. IOR/L/PS/9/66B

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/66B
Title:
'LETTERS FROM THE PERSIAN GULF 1882-83', Vol 6
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, minutes, and reports relating mainly to political affairs of the Persian Gulf region. The correspondence consists of political despatches, with enclosed letters and reports, from Lieutenant-Colonel (Colonel from March 1885) Edward Charles Ross, Political Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1882-8 Dec 1885
Extent:
1 volume (681 folios)

5153. IOR/L/PS/9/67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67
Title:
Letters from Persia
Scope & Content:
Letters and enclosures received by the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company concerning the relations of the United Kingdom and the Government of Bengal with Qājār Persia [Iran] between 1799 and 1812. The file focusses on the three missions of John Malcolm to Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1799-1812
Extent:
5 boxes, 138 items

5154. IOR/L/PS/9/67/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/1
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
A dispatch from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, at Fort St George, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 3 September 1799, regarding: the dispatch of an embassy to the court of Baba Khan [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], King [Shah] of Persia [Iran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1799-5 Sep 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5155. IOR/L/PS/9/67/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/2
Title:
Copies of Letters from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, and to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
A copy of a dispatch from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 6 October 1810. The dispatch concerns Malcolm’s views on the state of Persia. It includes discussio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1810-8 Aug 1811
Extent:

1 item (47 folios)

5156. IOR/L/PS/9/67/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/3
Title:
‘Abstract of the Routes of Lieutts Christie and Pottinger. 1810-’
Scope & Content:
A copy of an abstract describing the overland routes to Persia [Iran] taken by Lieutenants Charles Christie and Henry Pottinger from the port of Sonmeany [Sonmiani], for the purpose of exploring Siestan [Sistan] and Baloochistan [Balochistan], on the instructions of Brigadier-General John Malcol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1810-8 Aug 1811
Extent:

1 item (14 folios)

5157. IOR/L/PS/9/67/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/4
Title:
‘Abstract of Captain Grants Journal of a Route through the Western parts of Mekran’
Scope & Content:
A copy of an abstract of the journal of Captain Charles Grant, recording his journey through the western parts of Mekran [Makran], on the orders of Brigadier-General John Malcolm, for the main purpose of ascertaining how a European army could travel through this region to Scind [Sindh]. The copy...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1809-1811
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)

5158. IOR/L/PS/9/67/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/5
Title:
Notes for a Memorandum on the Revenues of Persia
Scope & Content:
A copy of notes for a memorandum on the revenues of Persia [Iran]. The verso of the last folio (folio 8) states that it was received via the ship Exeter on 8 August 1811.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1811
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)

5159. IOR/L/PS/9/67/6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/6
Title:
‘Statement of the Fixed Revenues of Persia.’
Scope & Content:
A copy of a statement of the fixed revenues of Persia [Iran]. It includes columns showing the following (in tomans and dinars): the amount of revenue, the total amount of revenue, the amount of moostamaree to be deducted, the total amount of moostamaree to be deducted, and the net amount of reve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1811
Extent:

1 item (2 folios)

5160. IOR/L/PS/9/67/7

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/7
Title:
‘Translation of a letter from His Excellency Meerza Mohammed Sheffea Prime Minister to H.M. the King of Persia, to the Honble the Chairman of the Honble the Court of Directors of the Honble East India Company committed to the care of Meerza Abdul Hassan Persian Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of London’
Scope & Content:
A translation of a letter from Meerza Mohammed Sheffea [Mīrzā Muḥammad Shafī' Māzandarānī], Prime Minister (Sadr-e 'Azam or Grand Vizier) of Persia [Iran], to the Chairman of Court of Directors of the East India Company, conveying ‘sentiments of esteem & friendship’. It was translated into E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1809-5 Dec 1809
Extent:

1 item (2 folios)

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