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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Gifts

31. IOR/L/PS/9/70/187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/187
Title:
‘Translation of a note from the Cayim Mukam to M. Noskoff’
Scope & Content:
The translation of a note from the Vizier of the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran], the Cayim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām], to Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], a Russian officer who had delivered a gift of a crystal couch to the Shah of Persia. In the letter, the Cayim Mukam in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827?
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/9/70/194

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/194
Title:
‘Translation of a letter addressed by M. Noskoff to Colonel Macdonald. Envoy.’
Scope & Content:
Translation of a letter from Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], a Russian officer who had delivered a gift of a glass couch to the Shah of Persia [Iran], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 20 Rajab 1242 [17 February 1827]. Noskoff reports his...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1827
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/9/70/207

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/207
Title:
Copy of a Letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky, in Constantinople, to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky [Matvey Yakovlevich Minchaki], in Constantinople [Istanbul], to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, of 7 January 1827 [Old Style]/ 19 January 1827 [New Style]. The letter asks for the inter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
19 Jan 1827
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/9/70/208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/208
Title:
Copy of a Letter from the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Nesselrode, in St Petersbourg, to Major William Monteith
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter from the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count [Karl Robert] Nesselrode, in St Petersbourg [St Petersburg], to Major William Monteith, of December 1826. The letter transmits a diamond snuffbox from the Emperor of Russia [Tsar Alexander II] as a gift of thanks to Monteith f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Dec 1826
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/9/71/264

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/264
Title:
Enclosure 101/1 to letter of 5 Oct 1828
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter in French from Comte Jean Paskevitch d’Erivan [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, sent from Tiflis [Tblisi] and dated 5 May 1828. Paskevitch th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
5 May 1828
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/9/71/283

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/283
Title:
Enclosure 111/2 to letter of 5 Oct 1828
Scope & Content:
A translation of an intercepted letter from General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] to Abbas Meerza [‘Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], undated. The letter discusses pieces of artillery and a portrait of the Emperor [Nichol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/9/76/90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/90
Title:
Correspondence of Harford Jones with Jonathan Duncan and John Blankett
Scope & Content:
This item contains four documents: 1. A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bagdad and dated 12 December 1799. In response to Duncan’s letter of 16 October (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/100), Jones discusses routes of communi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1799-26 Dec 1799
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/10/858

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/858
Title:
File 5238/1919 'Persia:- Mohammerah. Gift of guns and river steamers to the Sheikh of Mohammerah'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding the process of sending gifts to the Sheikh of Mohammerah [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir al-Ka‘bī of Mohammerah, now known as Khorramshahr, also written in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1918-6 May 1927
Extent:
1 volume (218 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/12/263

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/263
Title:
PZ 7184/38 'Iran: Gift of a set of meteorological instruments to the Iranian Govt.'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence regarding the gift of a set of meteorological instruments to the Iranian Government from the Government of India. Correspondents include: the Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department; and the Government of India, Department of Communications. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Oct 1938-11 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/12/897

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/897
Title:
Ext 453/44 'Gift from Lord Linlithgow to Sultan of Muscat'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of a letter from Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, sending thanks to Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, for the gift of a stud bull. The file also contains correspondence forwarding the letter to Lord Linlithgow via the Political Resident in the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1943-10 Feb 1944
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)