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7851. IOR/L/PS/9/70/93

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/93
Title:
Dispatches and Correspondence Concerning the Arrival of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Persia
Scope & Content:
Copies and translations of dispatches and correspondence concerning the arrival of the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Persia. The collection contains the following dispatches from Macdonald Kinneir: Dispatch No. 2 to the Chief Secretary o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1826-27 May 1826
Extent:
1 item (15 folios)

7852. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 189-226

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 189-226
Title:
Persian Affairs and Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 14 dated 16 Feburary 1856. The enclosures are dated 15 December 1855-14 February 1856. The item comprises the following: 1) A copy of a desp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Feb 1856
Extent:
1 item (38 folios)

7853. IOR/L/PS/12/2087

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2087
Title:
Coll 6/21(1) 'Hejaz-Nejd: Relations with H.M.G.: Hejaz Legation in London and British Minister in Jeddah.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the British Government and the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence. The correspondence near the beginning of the volume discusses Ibn Saud's [‘Abd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1927-10 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 volume (453 folios)

7854. IOR/L/PS/12/2123

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2123
Title:
Coll 6/56 'Saudi-Arabia: Prevention of use of Bahrein and Kuwait as bases for activities against Nejd (Ibn Hithlain)'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to an Ajman chief named Khalid ibn Hithlain [Khālid bin Muḥammad bin Ḥithlayn, also transliterated as Khalid bin Hathlain in the file], who is suspected of planning anti-Saudi activities. The correspondence documents the efforts of the British authorities – at the Saudi Governm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1933-31 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

7855. IOR/L/PS/12/2892

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2892
Title:
Coll 17/30(1) ‘Iraq. Proposed additional outlet to the sea, in or near Koweit territory. Development of port at Um Qasr.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the proposed construction of a port in Kuwait (Koweit) Bay, and the construction of a port in Um Qasr Creek. The papers mostly concern the following: The attitude of HM Government towards the proposal of the Government of Iraq for the extension of the Iraqi ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1938-19 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (530 folios)

7856. IOR/L/PS/5/458, ff 375-399

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/458, ff 375-399
Title:
Hostilities between the Imam of Muscat and the Shah of Persia, and Persian Actions in relation to Bahrein
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 104 of 1848, dated 2 December 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-16 and are dated 1 August to 18 November 1848. They consist of corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1848
Extent:
1 item (24 folios)

7857. IOR/L/PS/12/3553

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3553
Title:
Coll 29/2(2) 'Transfer of Bushire Residency to Bahrain: selection of site and construction of buildings'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the transfer of the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from Bushire to Bahrain. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between British officials including Central Public Works Department (A Croad), India Office officials (John Charles Walton, R Peel, E P D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1937-31 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (402 folios)

7858. IOR/L/PS/5/133, ff 3-379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/133, ff 3-379
Title:
Contemplated operations to the Westward of the Indus
Scope & Content:
Enclosures no. 2-113 to dispatch no. 23 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 24 September 1838. The enclosures are dated 3 July-24 September 1838. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to preparations for the East India Company’s invasion of Afghanistan in ord...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Sep 1838
Extent:
1 item (377 folios)

7859. IOR/L/PS/18/B150A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B150A
Title:
‘Précis of correspondence relating to Zanzibar affairs from 1856 to 1872. Prepared by Captain P D Henderson, attached to the Foreign Department’
Scope & Content:
The file is a précis of correspondence related to affairs at Zanzibar between the years 1856 and 1872, prepared by Captain Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department in the Government of India. The contents of the précis, which includes reports from Christopher Palmer Rigby, the British C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:

1 file (55 folios)

7860. IOR/L/PS/12/2168

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2168
Title:
Coll 6/93(2) 'SYRIA: Situation in – after capitulation of France, 1940. Incl. Proclamation of Independence.'
Scope & Content:
Following on from an earlier file (IOR/L/PS/12/2166), this file concerns British policy relating to Syria, following the success of the British-Free French military campaign in Syria [Operation Exporter]. (The abbreviation 'Incl.' in the title stands for 'Including'). The date range of this fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Jul 1941-12 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (311 folios)

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