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1. Add MS 88942/1/270

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Add MS 88942/1/270
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Kearsley’s Gentleman’s and Tradesman’s Pocket Ledger')
Scope & Content:
The inside front pocket contains a card on which is noted: 'This diary was written by Lady Mary Cole (Lady Mary Talbot) 1846'. (Lady Mary was Henry Talbot's aunt, and the date presumably records the date the note was written). The diary for 1838 contains miscellaneous personal notes and entries...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836-1846
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 106 ff.)

2. Add MS 88942/1/296

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Add MS 88942/1/296
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains only brief notes (relating to licensing) on its first two pages, dated 1853 and 1854. With the notebook are three loose sheets, one of which contains notes on letters from Joseph Whitlock (who opened the first Daguerreotype studio in Birmingham) also regarding calotype lic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1853-1854
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 2 pages of text), 3 loose sheets

3. Add MS 88942/1/300

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Various very brief notes: financial issues with John Harry Bolton (solicitor) about 122 Regent Street (Talbotype establishment); 'Accounts to be settled'; 'Miscellanea'; 'Money matters Coutts'; 'Wilkins' (plants for the gardener); 'at Paris' (with a note citing Figuier's method of engraving, and ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1847-1854]
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 5 pages of text)

4. Add MS 88942/1/304

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Add MS 88942/1/304
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Memoranda')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is largely unused save for a few brief notes on miscellaneous tasks concerning the garden, books, and London. Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard is noted, indicating that the notebook was used some time after 1849, when Layard first began to publish on the ancient Assyrian city.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1849
Extent:
1 notebook (69 folios, 4 pages of text), with a loosely inserted bookplate

5. Add MS 88942/1/310

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Add MS 88942/1/310
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a few notes, calculations and small sketches in pencil that appear to be related to Lacock Abbey (the notebook begins with the dimensions of the 'North window of Gallery') and the garden (various measurements given in paces). With the notebook is a single sheet (originally...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 8 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1266/1
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf negotiations 1928. Revision of Foreign Office Memorandum of 1908 for C.I.D. Persian Gulf Sub-Committee.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the revision of a 1908 Foreign Office memorandum on British interests in the Persian Gulf by the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, the Air Ministry and the Board of Trade. The memorandum was being revised at the request of the Persian Gu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1928-17 Jan 1929
Extent:

1 item (218 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/1217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1217
Title:
Ext 2297/47 'Supply of intelligence summaries from India and Pakistan to Political Resident, Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters, notes, memoranda and telegrams between officials of the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the Secretary to the India Office’s Political Department, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, regarding the distribution of intelligence summaries...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Oct 1947-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/744

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/744
Title:
P G India Office Memorandum
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the following twenty-seven India Office Political Department memoranda, dated 1928-34, relating to the Persian Gulf: B 392-97, B 399-414, B 416, B 419-20, B 422, B 436. The topics covered by the memoranda include: wireless telegraph; political control; quarantine control; Kowe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1939
Extent:
1 volume (123 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/745

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/745
Title:
P G India Office Memorandum No B.437, P.Z.5620/1934, Historical Memorandum on the Relations of the Wahabi Amirs and Ibn Saud with Eastern Arabia and the British Government, 1800-1934
Scope & Content:
The memorandum traces the first development of the Wahabi [Wahhabi] sect, 1745-1800; the first expansion of the Wahabis in eastern Arabia to the fall of Baraimi and the Turkish occupation of Hasa, 1800-71; the period from the Turkish conquest of Hasa to the capture of Riyadh by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1934
Extent:
1 volume (37 folios)