Abstract: This file consists of letters, notes, memoranda and telegrams between officials of the Foreign Office, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the Secretary to the India Office’s Political Department, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, regarding the distribution of intelligence summaries from India and Pakistan written by Laurence Grafftey-Smith, UK High Commissioner in Pakistan, to the Political Resident. The purpose of the reports is to describe the political situation in India and Pakistan.The file also contains memoranda regarding political and general situation reports from the UK High Commissioners in India and Pakistan.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 21, these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains notes, telegrams, and letters, regarding: the invitation by General Ritter and General Giles, of the United States of America, to five Turkish Army officers, including the Deputy Chief of Staff and the Director of Military Training, and Prince Peter of Greece, to pay a short visit to India, China and Burma, travelling in General Giles’s aircraft; and the omission by the United States military authorities to seek prior consent for the visit from the Government of India and South East Asia Command.It largely consists of: copies of telegrams between the Foreign Office and the Supreme Allied Command South East Asia, and between the Foreign Office and Sir Maurice Peterson (British Ambassador to Turkey), Istanbul; and telegrams from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India, External Affairs Department. It also includes copies of correspondence between British Chargé d’Affaires at Washington and the United States Department of State.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 39; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-39; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: This file consists of correspondence between SN Chowdhury, the Nepalese Minister in London, and the India Office regarding Chowdhury's claim to the Bijni Raj Estate.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 9; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Written in one column, 7 lines per page, in black ink.Ownership statement signed C.E. Norton and dated 1850 on rear paper wrapper 4.MS Persian 90. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Persian.
Written in one column, 9 lines per page, in black and red.According to the colophon (f. 37r), copy completed in 1282 AH 1865 or 6 AD.MS Arab SM4204. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Title from f. 50r.Bound with: ʻIqd al-jumān fī faḍāyil laylat niṣf al-ShaʻbānʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Aḥmad ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī (ff. 1r-22r.)From the books of Abū al-Ḥusayn Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad.MS Arab SM4303. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in one column, 9 lines per page, in black.According to the colophon (f. 47r), copy completed in 1287 AH 1870 or 71 AD.MS Arab SM4163. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in one column, 13 lines per page, in black.According to the colophon (ff. 54r-54v), copy completed on 2 Ramaḍān 1287 AH March 3, 1862 AD.MS Arab SM4141. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Title from f. 1r.Written in one column, 9 lines per page, in black.According to the colophon (f. 12r), copy completed between 1280 AH 1863 or 4 AD.From the books of Abū al-Ḥusayn Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad.With this is bound: Risālah fī bayān ḥadīth ikhtilāf al-ummahMuḥammad Ṣibghat Allāh al-Madrāsī (ff. 13r-37v).MS Arab SM4344. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.