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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Egypt, Africa Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 260-882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 260-882
Title:
Affairs in Various Places in Asia and the Middle East
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 93 of 1840, dated 31 October 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-244 and are dated 13 January to 31 October 1840. Enclosure numbers 20-31, 121-26...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (623 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/393, ff 1-384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/393, ff 1-384
Title:
Affairs in Sinde, Afghanistan, and Elsewhere
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of Enclosures to a General Letter from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 27 of 1841, dated 31 March 1841. The enclosures are dated 29 December 1840 to 31 March 1841. They largely relate to the situation in Sinde [Sindh], a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1841
Extent:
1 item (384 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 292-302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/452, ff 292-302
Title:
The Station Houses Erected by the Bombay Steam Fund in the Desert of Suez
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 106 of 1847, dated 30 December 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-6 and are dated 21 to 28 December 1847. The enclosures relate to th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1847
Extent:
1 item (11 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/464, ff 267-677

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/464, ff 267-677
Title:
Lieutenant-Colonel Outram’s Memoir on Matters Relating to Egypt
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 38 of 1850, dated 25 July 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-13 and are dated 21 January to 25 July 1850. The majority of the item consists of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jul 1850
Extent:
1 item (411 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/8
Title:
'LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 31. JAN. 1793 TO 21. JUNE 1803 VOL 8'
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises letters to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company from the Resident and Factor at Bussora [Basra], Samuel Manesty. The letters are dated 31 January 1793-21 June 1803 and the date each letter was received is recorded on the back of it...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1793-21 Jun 1803
Extent:
1 volume (609 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/76/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/39
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Jacob Bosanquet, John Blankett and Robert Abbott
Scope & Content:
Copies of three letters from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Vienna and Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad in July-August 1798: 1. A letter to Jacob Bosanquet, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Vienna and dat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 July 1798-18 Aug 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/76/40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/40
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad and dated 24 August 1798. The letter reports Jones’s arrival in Constantinople and dispatch of correspondence....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1798
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/76/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/42
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas of 31 Oct 1798
Scope & Content:
A copy of the proclamation written by General Napoleon Bonaparte after capturing Alexandria, dated 13 Messidor of Year VI of the French Revolution/Muharram 1213 (1 July 1798). The proclamation declares the end of the rule of the Mamelukes in Egypt and criticises the Mameluke rulers. It denies t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/76/46

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/46
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Jonathan Duncan
Scope & Content:
Two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Baghdad, to Jonathan Duncan, President and Governor in Council of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 29 November 1798 and 2 December 1798. Jones forwards two letters with information from French-occupied Egypt: 1. A translation of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1798-2 Dec 1798
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/76/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/47
Title:
Extract of a Letter from Constantinople to Baghdad
Scope & Content:
A translated extract of a letter from Coja Reuben ibn Saleh [Khāwja Rūbīn bin Ṣāliḥ] to Coja Abdullah ibn Eussof [Khāwja ‘Abdullāh bin Yūsuf] in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 20 November 1798. The letter forwards news from Cairo received in Constantinople. It r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)