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1. IOR/L/PS/5/477, ff 484-501

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/477, ff 484-501
Title:
Trucial Coast 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 48 of 1853, dated 30 August 1853. The enclosures are numbered 3-5 and are dated 11 May-3 August 1853. The papers relate to affairs on the Arabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1853
Extent:
1 item (18 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/20

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/20
Title:
'LETTERS FROM PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX. JAN-JUN 1872', Vol 20
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of despatches to the Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, from Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 13 January-26 June 1872, forwarding copies of his despatches to the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay. The despatches contain...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
13 Jan 1872-26 Jun 1872
Extent:
1 volume (857 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/82

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/82
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 2 'Bahrain: status; British protection of Bahrainis; Persian claim to sovereignty'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, memoranda, handwritten notes, and minutes relating to the question over the status of subjects of Bahrain and the Trucial Coast (United Arab Emirates) when in Persia and Turkish Arabia. The correspondence is mostly between the India Office and the Foreign Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Oct 1905-Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (279 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/83/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/83/3
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 5 Bahrain: cholera and plague
Scope & Content:
Part five contains correspondence relating to plague and cholera outbreaks in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence, mostly telegrams, is between the Political Agent at Muscat, the Political Resident at Bushire, the British Ambassador at Constantinople, and the Foreign Department of the Governmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1911-Jan 1912
Extent:
1 item (38 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/115/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/1
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 6 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf - Searching of vessels in territorial waters of Trucial Chiefs. Position of Katr [Qatar].'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence, which is primarily between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Percy Zachariah Cox), the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India (Spencer Harcourt Butler), the Naval Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station (Edmond John Warre Slade), and representatives of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Sep 1910-15 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (61 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/977

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/977
Title:
File 1749/1921 ‘Persian Gulf:- Residency news summaries 1921-25’
Scope & Content:
This volume mainly contains copies of printed monthly summaries of news (Bushire Residency Diary entries) received by the British Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, and India Office Political Department minute papers prefacing and commenting on the news summaries. The news summaries cove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1921-29 Mar 1926
Extent:

1 volume (243 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1267
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf Negotiations 1928. Status of Tamb. (and Abu Musa)’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the ownership and sovereignty of the islands of Tamb and Abu Musa (and Little Tamb and Sirri) in the Persian Gulf, and negotiations for a general treaty between the United Kingdom and Persia [Iran]. The papers mainly consist of correspondence and India Offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1928-29 Mar 1932
Extent:

1 volume (535 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/233
Title:
PZ 4841/1937 'Persian Gulf: Haji Williamson & Major Holmes'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the past conduct and future employment of Major Frank Holmes and William Richard ‘Haji’ Williamson in the Persian Gulf. Most of the correspondence is between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Secretary of State for India, and concerns ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1937-4 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/289

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/289
Title:
PZ 2872/39 'Importation into India of counterfeit Government of India silver coins from the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British Government officials relating to the importation of counterfeit Government of India silver coins from the Persian Gulf into India. The main correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Residen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 May 1939-15 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/445

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/445
Title:
PZ 6512/40 'Statesman's Year Book: Requests for revision of information regarding Persian Gulf etc.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence from Mortimer Epstein, Editor of the Statesman's Year Book, to the India Office, firstly requesting revised information relating to the Trucial Sheikhs, and secondly acknowledging receipt of the revisions sent by J P Gibson, India Office. The file includes a div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1940-9 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)