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1. IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 76-282

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/130, ff 76-282
Title:
Events in Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of India Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee, Number 5 of 1838, dated 5 April 1838. The enclosures are dated 29 January-5 April 1838. The item comprises: despatches between Captain Claude Martine...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1838
Extent:
1 item (207 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/398, ff 32-136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/398, ff 32-136
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 77 of 1841, dated 30 September 1841. The enclosures are dated 17 July-28 September 1841. The principal correspondents are: Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1841
Extent:
1 item (105 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/400, ff 401-407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/400, ff 401-407
Title:
Affairs in the Persian Gulf and in Sindh
Scope & Content:
Enclosures to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 1 December 1841. The enclosures are dated 5-27 November 1841. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to a survey of Phaleeche Island [Failaka Island, Kuwait] to assess its appropriateness for a po...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1841
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/68/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/127
Title:
Copy of Instructions from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to his Private Secretary, Sir William Ouseley, on the Occasion of his Mission to Mazenderan
Scope & Content:
Copy of instructions, dated 15 February 1812, from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to his Private Secretary, Sir William Ouseley, for his mission to Mazenderan [Mazandaran]. The instructions include to survey the coastal areas of the Caspian Sea for a s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Feb 1812
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/70/72

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/72
Title:
Copy of a Letter from the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, in Fort William, to HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter from the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, in Fort William, to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, of 6 May 1825. In the letter, Swinton indicates the approval of the Governor-General of India, Lord Amherst, for Willock’s recom...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 May 1825
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/38
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Henjam affairs. Status of Henjam (Persian sovereignty). Persian Customs post. Henjam Telegraph Station dispute’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, papers and maps relating to the British Government’s telegraph station and the Persian Government’s customs house on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], questions of Persian sovereignty over the island, and the status of the island’s Arab inhabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1906
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/39
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:

1 volume (235 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/892

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/892
Title:
File 2984/1920 'PERSIA: TRADE WITH EAST PERSIA [REPORTS & NOTES BY MAJOR TEMPLE]'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to Britain’s trade with east Persia [Iran], chiefly comprising reports by Major B Temple, British Vice-Consul, Meshed [Mashhad]. Major Temple’s reports cover various aspects of trade including development possibilities, trade routes, foreign competition (not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1920-22 Sep 1921
Extent:
1 volume (189 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/965/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/965/2
Title:
File 537/1921 Part 2 'Persia: Oil - A.P.O. Co's development of new oil-fields; Oil Boring at Dasht-i-Qil; A.P.O. Co's agreement with Kashkuli Khans'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding agreements made by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) for the establishment of new oilfields at Dasht-i-Qil, an area inland from Genawah [Bandar Ganaveh, Iran]. The correspondence covers: An oil drilling agreement between APOC and loca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1921-14 Dec 1923
Extent:
1 item (127 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/3425

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3425
Title:
Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
14 Apr 1924-20 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 volume (323 folios)