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Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947 Place Aden, Arabian Peninsula

1. IOR/L/PS/5/377, ff 306-444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/377, ff 306-444
Title:
Proceedings and Dispatches, Aden 1839
Scope & Content:
The item consists primarily of correspondence with notes, reports and memoranda dated between 10 July and 2 September 1839; it relates to Aden during the first month after its capture by the British. The papers cover the following: a request for weights and measures at the Custom House at Aden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1839-2 Sep 1839
Extent:
1 item (138 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/392, ff 386-389

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/392, ff 386-389
Title:
Letter from the Secretary to the Government of India to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, enclosing Instructions from the Governor General to the Naval Commander in Chief
Scope & Content:
This part consists of a letter to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay (John Pollard Willoughby) from the Secretary to the Government of India (Thomas Herbert Maddock), enclosing an extract of a despatch from the Governor-General of India to the Naval Commander in Chief. In the extract the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1841
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 331-360

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 331-360
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 123 of 1846, dated 15 October 1846. The enclosures are numbered 3-20. Enclosure Nos. 3-16 and 18 are dated 21 September to 10 October 1846, and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1846-29 Oct 1906
Extent:

1 item (28 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/453, ff 1a-9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/453, ff 1a-9
Title:
‘Affairs of Aden’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures no. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 1 January 1848. The enclosures are dated 18-31 December 1847. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, particularly the succession of Ahmed M Houssain Fudthel [​Sultan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1848
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/453, ff 399-414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/453, ff 399-414
Title:
‘Affairs of Aden’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures no. 2-10 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 2 March 1848. The enclosures are dated 18 January-1 March 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden and reports received there of events elsewhere, including: Rep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Mar 1848
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/407
Title:
File 3463/1913 ‘Aden Frontier Proposed ratification of the 1905 boundary settlement’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains India Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, mainly about the latter’s proposal to seek ratification of the Aden boundary settlement of 1905, as part of British counter-concessions to be tabled at the Anglo-Turkish Commercial Convention negotiations in London, 1913-19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:

1 volume (130 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/558

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/558
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 1 'German War: Red Sea and Arabia (1914)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to consideration by the British of the political and strategic situation in the Red Sea area near Aden and actions which might promote British interests in the period up to the start of the First World War....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1914-21 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (179 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/560

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/560
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 3-4 'ARABIA: RED SEA – POLICY'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two parts: IOR/L/PS/10/560/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/560/2. IOR/L/PS/10/560/1 discusses Red Sea policy during the period 1915-16 and issues such as negotiations with the Imam of Yemen and the Idrisi Saiyid [Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsī], as well the effect of the British blo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1915-16 Jan 1916
Extent:
1 volume (407 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/561

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/561
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 5 'Arabia: Red Sea – Trade during German War'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the blockade of trade in the Red Sea during the First World War. The discussion in the volume relates to: Export of grain to Eritrea: removal of limit on Sudanese exports Restriction on navigators of I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 5 1915-18 Sept 1919
Extent:
1 volume (475 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/562

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/562
Title:
File 3086/1915 Pt 6-7 'ARABIA: RED SEA ISLANDS – AFFAIRS 1915-19'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains two parts: IOR/L/PS/10/562/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/562/2. IOR/L/PS/10/562/1 consists of correspondence relating to the political and military situation on the Red Sea littoral in the period 1915-18. The correspondence discusses the Treaty with the Idrisi Saiyid, reported overtures...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1919
Extent:
1 volume (311 folios)