According to the colophon (f. 25v), copy completed in 1272 AH 1855 or 56 AD.Written in one column, 8 lines per page, in black and red.From the books of Abū al-Ḥusayn ibn Muḥammad Ṣibghat Allāh (ownership statement on f. 1r).MS Arab SM4183. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Written in one column, 17 lines per page, in black rubricated in red, framed within triple red, golden and black lines.With this is bound: al-Ḥāshiyah al-jadīdah ʻalá Fatḥ al-ʻazīz li-ahl al-tamyīzMuḥammad Hādī al-Ḥusaynī (ff. 17r-56v) -- Risālah fī masḥ al-aqdām fī al-wuḍūʼMuḥammad Hādī al-Ḥusaynī (ff. 57r-186v).MS Arab SM4352. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Title supplied by cataloger.Written in one column, 7 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.According to colophon (f. 6v), copy dated 1286 AH 1869 or 70 AD.MS Arab SM4335-4339. Houghton Library, Harvard University.In Arabic.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding arrangements to be made for patients with mental health issues who require hospital treatment, following the transfer of Aden from the Government of India. The correspondents are the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly), the India Office, the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department.It is agreed to continue the practice of sending Indian and Arab patients to India, with a small payment to be made. The lack of accommodation for European patients is noted.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 20; 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 papers relating to the proposed visit of an Iraqi irrigation engineer to India, to see some of the major irrigation works which had been constructed there, and the areas which had been brought under cultivation and colonised through the irrigation works.The papers mostly consist of correspondence between the India Office (J P Gibson, Roland Tennyson Peel, and others) and the following: the Foreign Office, the External Affairs Department of the Government of India (Sir Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe, O K Caroe, and others), and the British Council.The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file 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 37; 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 2-36; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to passport control on the Indo-Persian frontier.It includes correspondence concerning the following:The examination of passports by the British Vice Consulate, Duzdab, of Persian [Iranian] subjects entering India via Duzdab (also called Duzdap in the file) [Zahedan]Visa fees charged by the Persian Consul at Quetta for visas issued to British subjectsThe grant of visas to Afghan subjects travelling to India via Meshed and DuzdabThe re-organisation of the passport control arrangements on the Indo-Persian frontierThe decision of the Government of India to discontinue the British passport control system at DuzdabThe reported ‘loss’ of British passports by Indian British subjects in Persia (and the India Office supposition that these passports were being traded)Alleged deposits required from British subjects applying for visas for entry into Persia from IndiaThe importation of cut diamonds from Iran into India.The main correspondents include:The India Office; the Foreign Office; HM Consul General and Agent of the Government of India, Meshed; the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign and Political Department (and the Deputy Foreign Secretary); HM Consul for Sistan and Kain; the Agent to the Governor General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan; HM Minister at Kabul; HM Minister at Tehran.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 230; 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 papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the issue of diplomatic visas, including correspondence regarding visits to India by Russian diplomats in Kabul.It includes correspondence between the following: the India Office and the Foreign Office; the India Office and the Government of India External Affairs Department; and between HM Minister, Kabul, and the Government of India External Affairs Department.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file 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 33; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.