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1. IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 45-86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376, ff 45-86
Title:
Persian Gulf Affairs
Scope & Content:
The item mainly relates to affairs in the Persian Gulf. It chiefly comprises copies of despatches of Captain Samuel Hennell, Political Resident, Persian Gulf, to John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government, Bombay [Mumbai], with relevant enclosures, such as letters to and from Hennell, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1839-12 Jun 1839
Extent:
1 item (42 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/428, ff 437-487

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/428, ff 437-487
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 26 of 1844, dated 25 March 1844. The enclosures are dated 23 January-11 February 1844. The enclosures comprise despatches of Major Henry Creswicke Raw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1844
Extent:
1 item (51 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/47/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/47/2
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 2 'Koweit:- Postal arrangements. Establishment of a regular Post Office.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the opening of a Post Office at Koweit [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (from 1904 Major Stuart George Knox; from 1909, Captain William Henry Irvine Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1899-23 Apr 1915
Extent:

120 folios

4. IOR/L/PS/10/78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/78
Title:
File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials, about their negotiations in the lead up to the Parcel Post Agreement of 1910 with Persia. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and the British Chargé d'Affaires...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Dec 1902-23 Feb 1911
Extent:
1 volume (212 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/83/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/83/1
Title:
File 1508/1905 Pt 3 'Bahrain: postal arrangements; mails; post office'
Scope & Content:
Part one of the volume relates to postal services in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is between the Foreign Office, India Office and Government of India. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, is from the General Post Office in London, representatives of Gray, Mackenzie, and Compan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jun 1905-Jan 1912
Extent:
1 item (91 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/242
Title:
File 1912/897 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf. British post offices [also in Turkish Arabia]’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, typewritten correspondence, handwritten notes and other papers. These papers relate to the operation of British and Turkish post offices in Turkish Arabia (Iraq), and British and Persian post offices in Persia and the ports and towns of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1911-1914
Extent:
1 volume (227 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/243

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/243
Title:
File 1912/897 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of printed correspondence, handwritten correspondence, notes and other papers. This relates to the operation of British Indian post offices in Persia, and in particular in the region known as Arabistan [Ahvāz] by British officials. The file is a direct chronological c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1919
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/244
Title:
File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, telegrams, handwritten notes and other papers. They relate to negotiations between the British Government, the Government of India, and the Persian Government, over the status of British Indian post offices in south Persia, which took place before, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1920-1922
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/245
Title:
File 897/1912 Pt 4 ‘Persian Gulf: British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, agreements, notes and other papers relating to the closure of British Indian post offices in Persia, and the transfer of postal services from British Indian to Persian administration. The specific focus of the volume’s contents is a conference, taki...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1922-1925
Extent:

1 volume (229 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/333
Title:
File 342/1913 'Mesopotamia: Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co; mail contract'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains memoranda, correspondence, telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding a contract between the India Office and the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company for mail service and commercial transports on the River Tigris between Baghdad and Basra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Feb 1904-30 Jun 1919
Extent:
1 volume (138 folios)