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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Travel

31. IOR/L/PS/12/1207

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1207
Title:
Ext 1865/47 'Sir Reginald Stradling: visit to Bahrain en route for Australia and New Zealand'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a letter and draft telegram between the Secretary of the Ministry of Works and the Foreign Office, regarding the arrangement of a visit to Bahrain by Chief Scientific Adviser to the Ministry of Works, Reginald Stradling, while en route to Australia and New Zealand for a mis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Aug 1947-1 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/12/1253

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1253
Title:
Ext 7790/47 'Journey of Mr Robin Maugham'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a single letter from the Western Department, British Foreign Office to the British Consulate-General, Rabat regarding the whereabouts and actions of Mr Robert Maugham [Robert Cecil Romer Maugham], Observer correspondent and son of the former Lord Chancellor.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1947-4 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/12/1305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1305
Title:
Ext 747/48 'Lt Col A C Galloway: private file'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding travel arrangements for Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, Political Agent, Kuwait, to return to Kuwait from the United Kingdom. As well as Galloway, the primary correspondents are: Commonwealth Relations Office; Political Agency, Kuwait.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Mar 1948-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/12/4252

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4252
Title:
Coll 37/18 'Travellers. Persian Gulf, Arab States, Arabia: Lady Dorothy Mills: Mrs Howard Clitty: Mrs M. A. Cairnes: Miss Palmer Smith: Mrs Greenway: Lady Qadir & Miss Clements.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to seven different applications to visit the Persian Gulf (mainly Kuwait, Yemen and Bahrain), which were submitted during the period 1931-35 by the following: Mrs Winifred J Howard-Clitty, Dorothy Mills, Mrs Margaret Maria...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1931-4 Sep 1937
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/12/4256

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4256
Title:
Coll 37/22 'Travellers. Arabia: Rub-al-Khali. Crossing of by Mr. Bertram Thomas and Mr. H St. J. Philby.'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of handwritten letters, press cuttings and a map relating to the crossings of the Rub al Khali desert by Bertram Thomas and Harry St John Bridger Philby in the 1930s. The main topic discussed is the politics of awarding an honour to Bertram Thomas for his crossing of the Rub ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1931-23 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/20/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/66
Title:
'Diary of a Tour in the Persian Gulf and in Turkish Arabia December 1906, by Lieutenant-Colonel Malleson Assistant Quarter Master General, Intelligence Branch, Division of the Chief of the Staff.'
Scope & Content:
The diary, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Wilfrid Malleson, comprises daily entries and accounts of his travels from 3 to 29 December 1906. The diary commences on his arrival at sea off Maskat [Muscat] before recounting the journey to Basra via Bushire and Koweit [Kuwait] and on to Baghdad, Bab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907
Extent:

1 volume (23 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/20/202

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/202
Title:
Notes of a journey through Kurdistan in the winter of 1881-82.
Scope & Content:
By Montagu Gilbert Gerard, Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel, 1st Central India Horse, published in Calcutta by the Quarter Master General's Department. The notes consist of diary entries for the period 15 November 1881 to 16 April 1882, documenting each stage of Captain Gerard's journey th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1883
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/20/E23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/E23
Title:
'DESCRIPTION OF ARABIA MADE FROM PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS AND INFORMATION COLLECTED ON THE SPOT BY CARSTEN NIEBUHR.'
Scope & Content:
An official publication containing a translation of a text entitled ‘Description of Arabia made from Personal Observations and Information Collected on the Spot by Carsten Niebuhr’. The original text by Niebuhr, in German, was published in Amsterdam and Utrecht in 1774. This translation was ca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1889
Extent:

1 volume (59 folios)