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1. IOR/L/PS/5/126, ff 5-191

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/126, ff 5-191
Title:
The Enclosures to Secret Letter No. 3
Scope & Content:
The enclosures cover the following: the instructions of the Political Agent in Sindh Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pottinger to the officers of the Indian Navy surveying the Indus River; the chart of the Indus prepared by Lieutenant Thomas Carless of the Indian Navy, and his observations on the diffic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1836
Extent:
187 folios

2. IOR/L/PS/5/126, ff 194-204

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/126, ff 194-204
Title:
The Enclosures to Secret Letter No. 4 (Not included in the Volume)
Scope & Content:
The enclosures (not included in the volume) cover the following: demand by Maharaja Ranjit Singh for tribute from the Amirs of Hyderabad, Mirpur and Khairpur in Sindh; the confirmation of the capture, by the troops of Ranjit Singh, of Mir Bahram Khan Mazari’s capital Rojhan; the three kharitas fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1836
Extent:
11 folios

3. IOR/L/PS/5/127, ff 4-307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/127, ff 4-307
Title:
The Enclosures to Secret Letter No. 3
Scope & Content:
The three hundred and four folios in the collection begin with an abstract of the contents of Secret Letter No. 3. The enclosures to Secret Letter No. 3 themselves are primarily concerned with the following subjects: The arrival of the Political Agent in Ludhiana Captain Claude Martine Wade at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1837
Extent:
304 folios

4. IOR/L/PS/5/127, ff 320-662

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/127, ff 320-662
Title:
The Enclosures to Secret Letter No. 9
Scope & Content:
The assurances of the Maharaja of the Punjab Ranjit Singh that his forces would not invade Sindh without prior coordination between the governments, and his acceptance of British mediation in disputes with the Amirs of Sindh if pursued as discretely as possible, following discussions with the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1837
Extent:
343 folios

5. IOR/L/PS/5/477, ff 296-302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/477, ff 296-302
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 42 of 1853, dated 2 July 1853. The enclosures are numbered 4-6 and are dated 14 June-2 July 1853. A handwritten note in red ink states that enclo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jul 1853
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/67/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/2
Title:
Copies of Letters from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, and to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
A copy of a dispatch from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 6 October 1810. The dispatch concerns Malcolm’s views on the state of Persia. It includes discussio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1810-8 Aug 1811
Extent:

1 item (47 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/76/92

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/92
Title:
Report on Syria
Scope & Content:
A report compiled by John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, concerning the feasibility of a French army reaching the Euphrates and the entrance to the Persian Gulf from Syria. It covers issues including: The grain surplus in Aleppo Roads from Latichia [Latakia] and Alexandretta [Iskenderun] to the Eu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1799
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/336

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/336
Title:
File 364/1913 'Persia: situation in Fars (attack on 39th Central India Horse)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, and reports relating to an attack by Bakhtiari tribesmen on a party of the 39th Central India Horse regiment and the killing of a British officer. The discussion in the volume relates to the implications for the Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1913
Extent:
1 volume (259 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/407

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/407
Title:
File 3463/1913 ‘Aden Frontier Proposed ratification of the 1905 boundary settlement’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains India Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, mainly about the latter’s proposal to seek ratification of the Aden boundary settlement of 1905, as part of British counter-concessions to be tabled at the Anglo-Turkish Commercial Convention negotiations in London, 1913-19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:

1 volume (130 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/618

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/618
Title:
File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1918 PORTION'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists of printed reports, typed letters and other miscellaneous correspondence by British officials relating to the British occupation of Mesopotamia in the period September 1917 to March 1919 covering such topics as administration of justice, agriculture and land revenue, and tri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Sep 1917-9 Mar 1919
Extent:
1 volume (669 folios)