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Subject Hydrographic charts

1. Add MS 89301

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 89301
Title:
Letters to John Purdy from John Evans and Bisschop Greevelink
Scope & Content:
Letters sent to John Purdy, hydrographer, with observations, charts and views (none of these are present) for publication or incorporation in future editions of his charts and sailing instructions. Both correspondents were credited with information in later editions of Purdy's Memoir, descriptiv...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1838
Extent:
1 file (13 letters)

2. IOR/F/4/2224/110665

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/2224/110665
Title:
‘Regarding the recently ascertained error in the Geographical position of Bushire’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, extracts of Marine Letters sent between the Government of Bombay and the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 28 April 1847 and 26 May 1847. The item relates to the discovery of an error in the hydrog...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1847-26 May 1847
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/432, ff 301-310

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/432, ff 301-310
Title:
‘Memoir on the South and East Coasts of Arabia’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures no. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 27 August 1844. The enclosures are dated 17 July-27 August 1844. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to a ‘Memoir on the South and East Coasts of Arabia’, written by the Political Agent, Aden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1844
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/69
Title:
File 339/1905 ‘Koweit: - Political Agency. Expenditure. Steam Launch’
Scope & Content:
The main contents of the volume are exchanges of letters about government expenditure on the Kuwait Political Agency, primarily between British officials at the Foreign Office, India Office and Treasury in London and Government of India officials at the Foreign Department in Calcutta and Simla. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1914
Extent:
1 volume (180 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/C251

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C251
Title:
‘Persian Gulf pilot comprising the Persian Gulf and its approaches from Ras al Hadd, in the south-west, to Cape Monze, in the east.’
Scope & Content:
Persian Gulf pilot comprising the Persian Gulf and its approaches, from Ras al Hadd, in the south-west, to Cape Monze, in the east. Published for the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty by His Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1932. Eighth edition. The pilot begins with a number of intr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932
Extent:

199 folios

6. IOR/R/15/5/97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/97
Title:
'1/C Volume IV Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a variety of miscellaneous topics in the period December 1923 to July 1924. The principal topics discussed are: A proposal to replace the Iraq Post Office in Kuwait, 1924. Purchase of land in Iraq by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1923-22 Jul 1924
Extent:
1 volume (312 folios)

7. IOR/X/3635

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/X/3635
Title:
'A List of Charts and Sailing directions, issued originally by the Honourable East India Company, and subsequently by H[is/Her].M[ajesty's]. Secretary of State for India in Council'
Scope & Content:
The title and the following paragraph are taken from 'A Catalogue of Manuscript and Printed Reports, Field Books, Memoirs, Maps, etc., of the Indian Surveys Deposited in the Map Room of the India Office', India Office (1878). 'Under these authorities the Charts were in the charge of Mr. John Wa...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1800-c 1900
Extent:

c 220 map sheets