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141. IOR/L/PS/9/68/82

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/82
Title:
Copy of a Letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto, of 15 October 1810. The letter concerns the Crown Prince of Persia, Abbas Meerza [Abbas Mirza]’s military campaign aga...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1810
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

142. IOR/L/PS/9/70/178

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/178
Title:
Copy of Dispatch No. 31 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton
Scope & Content:
Copy of dispatch No. 31 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 16 January 1827. Macdonald Kinneir reports his journey to Tabreez on the Shah ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1827
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

143. IOR/L/PS/9/76/85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/85
Title:
Correspondence regarding the French Revolutionary Wars
Scope & Content:
Copies of six letters mainly concerning the French Revolutionary Wars: 1. Four letters from Sir William Sidney Smith, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Levant, to John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, and Nicholas Ducci, Agent, sent from HMS Tigre and dated 28 August-10 September 1799....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1799-26 Sept 1799
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

144. IOR/L/PS/9/76/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/89
Title:
Report from Herat
Scope & Content:
A report from Herat by an anonymous French author in the service of Shah Zeman [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Ruler of Afghanistan], dated 3 September 1799. The report describes the campaign of Baba Khan [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Persia] in eastern Persia [Iran], including the capture of Nichabour ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

145. IOR/L/PS/10/68

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/68
Title:
File 57/1905 ‘Arabia: - Situation in Yemen (1905-11). Arab revolt against Turks. Imam of Sanaa’s letter to the King. Fighting in Yemen 1911. Agreement between the Turks & the Imam’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the political situation in Yemen between 1905 and 1911. Their correspondence contains numerous military reports about Turkish troop and transport movements, the progress of the conflict between Turkis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905-1912
Extent:
1 volume (342 folios)

146. IOR/L/PS/10/115/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/2
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 7 'Arms traffic: Persian Gulf. Debai incident.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses an incident at Debai [Dubai] on 24 December 1910 in which a landing party from HMS Hyacinth entered Debai to search a house for illegally trafficked arms and came under fire from local residents. The correspondence includes detailed accounts of the incident by Brit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1910-21 Feb 1911
Extent:
1 item (70 folios)

147. IOR/L/PS/10/115/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/115/4
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 9 'Arms traffic:- Persian Gulf:- Military operations.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses military operations which took place on the Mekran [Makran] and Shibkah coasts to suppress the illicit trafficking of arms there. The operations included naval vessels landing troops who were instructed to cut off raiding parties who had succeeded in illegally land...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1911-13 Jun 1911
Extent:
1 volume (46 folios)

148. IOR/L/PS/10/390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/390
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 9-10 'PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIA NEJD-HEJAZ AFFAIRS 1919'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains parts 9 and 10 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It relates to the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and Britain's policy towards both. It includes correspondenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1918-13 Jan 1920
Extent:

1 volume (534 folios)

149. IOR/L/PS/10/391/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/391/1
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 11 'Arabia: relations with BIN SAUD Hedjaz-Nejd Dispute'
Scope & Content:
Part 11 concerns British policy regarding the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz] over Khurma and Tarabah [Turabah]. Much of the c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1919-28 May 1920
Extent:

1 item (336 folios)

150. IOR/L/PS/10/397

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/397
Title:
File 2698/1913 'Muscat: rebellion against the Sultan'
Scope & Content:
This file contains letters and documents relating to British intervention in Oman before, during, and in the aftermath of an uprising against the Sultan led by the Imam, Salim ibn Rashid al Kharusi, in 1913. Most of the papers are exchanges between the British Political Agent in Muscat, the Poli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 May 1895-16 Oct 1913
Extent:
1 Volume (211 folios)