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IOR/L/PS/6/692, ff 235-237
- Record Id:
- 041-004541206
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000543849
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100183526463.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192431516.0x000018
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/6/692, ff 235-237
- Title:
- Captain Playfair's History of Arabia Felix.
- Scope & Content:
-
This item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 38 of 26 March 1859, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bombay’s Political Despatch No. 34 of 4 November 1859 to the Secretary of State for India. It comprises correspondence from the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, to the Principal Secretary of State for India, London, relating to fifty printed copies of the book, History of Arabia Felix or Yemen from the commencement of the Christian Era to the present time, including an account of the British Settlement of Aden, prepared by Captain Robert Lambert Playfair, Assistant Political Resident at Aden. The location of the fifty printed copies is not disclosed.
Correspondents include: the Secretary of State for India, London; the Governor and President in Council, Bombay; and the Secretary to the Government of Bombay.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000539452
037-000543849
040-000543868
041-004541206 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/6 : Political Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/6/674-760 : Collections to Bombay Political Dispatches
IOR/L/PS/6/692 : 'BOMBAY POLITICAL. COLLECTIONS TO DESPATCHES. NOS. 32, PART 1 & 34. 1859.' VOL 19
IOR/L/PS/6/692, ff 235-237 : Captain Playfair's History of Arabia Felix. - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0006]/036-000539452[0044]/037-000543849[0019]/040-000543868[0013]/041-004541206
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (3 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1859
- End Date:
- 1859
- Date Range:
- 26 Mar 1859
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- Coll 34/12
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Government of Bombay, Chief Secretary, 1803?-1876
President and Governor of Bombay in Council, 1662-1947 - Places:
- Aden, Arabian Peninsula
Yemen, Arabian Peninsula, Asia