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11. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 200-448

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 200-448
Title:
The Indus steam flotilla, Scinde and Luss, Afghanistan and Bussora
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 1840, dated 22 June 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-90 and are dated 10 August 1839 to 22 June 1840. Enclosure numbers 4, 6-8, 10, 12-1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jun 1840
Extent:
1 item (249 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 744-1021

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/385, ff 744-1021
Title:
Affairs in Various Places in Asia
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 54 of 1840, dated 23 July 1840. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-107. There is a note on folio 745 stating that...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jul 1840
Extent:
1 item (278 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 138-153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 138-153
Title:
Euphrates Flotilla and the Indus Flotilla
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 91 of 1840, dated 31 October 1840. The enclosures are numbered 1-5 and are dated 28 August to 26 October 1840. They consist of correspondence rel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

14. 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)

15. IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 432-449

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/415, ff 432-449
Title:
‘The Flotilla on the River Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 2-10 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 December 1842. The enclosures are dated 17 November-29 December 1842. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the withdrawal of the steam flotilla on the Euphrates and the trans...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1842
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 81-113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/472, ff 81-113
Title:
Supply of tents to Tehran, communications in India, and the trade in enslaved persons in Oman
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-18 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 January 1852. The enclosures are dated 16 June 1851-17 January 1852. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to four separate subjects. Folios 85-97 cover a complaint fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1852
Extent:
1 item (33 folios)

17. Mss Eur B28; D155

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B28; D155
Title:
`A Memoir of a Map of the Eastern branch of the Indus giving an account of the alterations produced in it by the earthquake of 1819 and the bursting of the dams in 1826...', by Lt (later Lt-Col Sir) Alexander Burnes (1805-41), Bombay Army 1821-41, Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General in Cutch 1825-29 (lithograph); also paper (1829) by Burnes on the eunuchs or `Pawyus' of Cutch.
Scope & Content:
`A Memoir of a Map of the Eastern branch of the Indus giving an account of the alterations produced in it by the earthquake of 1819 and the bursting of the dams in 1826...', by Lt (later Lt-Col Sir) Alexander Burnes (1805-41), Bombay Army 1821-41, Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General in Cutch ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1828
Extent:
2 volumes

18. Mss Eur C211

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C211
Title:
John Court Curry papers.
Scope & Content:
`The joy of the working: memoirs of an Indian policeman': typescript autobiography of John Court Curry (b 1887), Indian Police 1907-33, describing his life in the Bombay and Sind police.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888-1959
Extent:
2 volumes

19. Mss Eur D128-129; E91-92

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D128-129; E91-92
Title:
Memoirs on Afghanistan, Iran, and neighbouring countries by Mountstuart Elphinstone (qv), and Lt (later Capt) Francis Irvine (1786-1855), Bengal Army 1805-22, mostly incorporated into Elphinstone's `Account of the Kingdom of Caubul' (London 1815); also list of nine memoirs by various hands on Afghanistan, Persia, etc, relating to Elphinstone's Embassy to Kabul 1808 and Sir John Malcolm's mission to Persia 1810.
Scope & Content:
Memoirs on Afghanistan, Iran, and neighbouring countries by Mountstuart Elphinstone (qv), and Lt (later Capt) Francis Irvine (1786-1855), Bengal Army 1805-22, mostly incorporated into Elphinstone's `Account of the Kingdom of Caubul' (London 1815); also list of nine memoirs by various hands on Afg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808-1810
Extent:
4 volumes

20. Mss Eur D153

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D153
Title:
Geographical memoranda by various army officers including Lt (later Lt-Col Sir) Alexander Burnes (1805-41), Bombay Army 1821-41, Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General in Cutch 1825-29, on places in western India including Mahi Kantha, Rann of Cutch, Sind, Narbada river, Kathiawar, and Mount Abu.
Scope & Content:
Geographical memoranda by various army officers including Lt (later Lt-Col Sir) Alexander Burnes (1805-41), Bombay Army 1821-41, Deputy Assistant Quarter-Master General in Cutch 1825-29, on places in western India including Mahi Kantha, Rann of Cutch, Sind, Narbada river, Kathiawar, and Mount Abu.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1808-1828
Extent:
1 volume