IOR/Z/R/15/1/10

The file contains three typewritten copies of an index which lists current files from the Residency’s confidential office. Each index has a different set of handwritten annotations on each copy. The first copy of the index (folios 2-27) has annotations noting missing sections, new file entries, missing files, files marked ‘F.O.’ (Foreign Office), files marked ‘K’ (keep), and files struck through. These annotations are all undated.

The second copy of the index (folios 29-54) is fronted by a cover (folio 28) entitled ‘Record of Weeding, Confidential Series unbound’, and carries more extensive annotations throughout. These annotations include new file entries, and different letters against file entries: ‘d’ or ‘destroyed’, ‘F.O.’ (Foreign Office), and ‘k’ or ‘keep’. The annotations also indicate part numbers for some files (expressed in Roman numerals), and files that were grouped together into boxes (labelled, box 1, box 2, etc.). These annotations are all undated.

The third copy of the index (folios 56-81) carries less extensive annotations than the first two copies of the index. There are handwritten annotations for new file entries, and some files marked with: ‘k’ (keep), ‘destroyed’ or ‘F.O.’ (Foreign Office). Some the annotations marking files as destroyed are dated 5 September 1953. The rest of the annotations are undated.