Abstract: Enclosure nos. 3-6 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The enclosures consist of copies of papers relating to the Kandahar Mission, a British diplomatic mission to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1857-58. Most of the item consists of a detailed report from the head of the mission, Major Harry Burnett Lumsden, which covers the political and military situation in Afghanistan, and observations on culture, geography and population. Folio 144 includes a sketch of a fortified building encountered on the mission’s journey between Kohant [Kohat] and Cabul [Kabul]. Folios 195-210 consist of a vocabulary of the Kaffir [Nuristani] language. Folio 287 consists of a sketch map of Kaffiristan [Nuristan]. Folio 288 contains both a plan and a sketch of the Fort of Kilat-i-Chilze [Qalat-e Gilzay]. The enclosures also contain correspondence from the Commissioner, Peshawur [Peshawar], and the Chief Commissioner, Punjab, reacting to the report and discussing British policy towards Afghanistan in the wake of the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57 and the Indian Rebellion of 1857.Physical description: 1 item (217 folios)
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 papers regarding a collection of secret intelligence reports, dating from c.1906-08, found in the effects of the late Major-General Sir Wilfrid Malleson. The primary correspondents are: Lieutenant-Colonel Vivian Malleson; India Office.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 8; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file consists of letters between the Secretary to the Political Resident in Persian Gulf, Bahrain, and the India Office, London. The letters are regarding Iran Intelligence Report no. CB 1885(X), which was sent to the Persian Gulf Residency. The letters specify which copies were sent to Persian Gulf and War Staff. Some of the letters are notifications confirming receipt of the Report.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 8; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file consists of a letter, telegrams, report, notes and maps between Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison of the India Office and W D Monsell-Davis of the Ministry of Fuel and Power regarding the visit of Dr Nuttall to the Middle East. Dr Nuttall visited different oil companies and oilfields as a technical adviser on behalf of the Petroleum Division. Attached to the file are a report and a map produced by Dr Nuttall after his visit. The visit included stops at Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Kirkuk.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 16, 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 a small number of telegrams sent between Sir Reader William Bullard, HM Minister at Tehran; the Foreign Office; and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India. The subject matter is the circulation of Consular reports from Persia [Iran] and the extent that these reports should be permitted to include criticism of British military authorities.A list of correspondence references by year can be found on the front cover.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.
Abstract: The file contains two reports by the British Middle East Office on the economic situation in the Middle East during September and October 1947.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 15; 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 consists largely of a report by Mr George William Rendel, Head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office in London, on his private tour to the Persian Gulf and also to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of King Ibn Saud, in February and March 1937. This personal account of his trip is preceded by a small amount of correspondence in 1936 relating to his travel arrangements, and is followed by post-tour correspondence in 1937 about the drafting and circulation of his report, on a confidential and limited basis, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Kuwait, the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department and other British officials in London, India and the Middle East. The main correspondents are Mr George William Rendel of the Foreign Office and Mr John Charles Walton, Foreign and Political Secretary to the India Office in London.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 102; 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 3-102; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: This item is comprised of copies of secret letters, despatches and intelligence reports. Correspondence discusses a number of topics including: the state of affairs in Bahrain and on the 'Wahabee Coast' and the consternation of the Ruler of Bahrain, Mahomed ben Khuleefah [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah] at the policy of the 'Wahabee Ruler', Ameer Fysul [Amir Fayṣal bin Turkī bin ‘Abdullāh Āl Sa‘ūd] concerning exiled kinsmen in Dammam [Dammām]; instructions to Commander Robinson to send H C Schooner
Constanceto Dammamn and Kutiffe [Al-Qaṭīf].Correspondents include: Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, the Resident in the Persian Gulf; H L Anderson, Secretary to Government in the Secret Committee, Bombay [Mumbai].Physical description: 1 item (10 folios)
Abstract: 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 47 of 1854, dated 29 August 1854. The enclosures are numbered 3-4 and are dated 1 to 15 August 1854.The enclosures contain correspondence from the Commissioner in Sind [Sindh] concerning intelligence reports from Kandahar and Khelat [Kalat] and the surrender of the ‘border robber’ Sunjar Khind [Sanjar Khān?] to the Wakeel of the Khan of Khelat.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 4 August 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 3 September 1873, forwarding copies of a 'Medical Report on Bushire [Bushehr] for the year ending 31 March 1873', by Assistant Surgeon George Waters, Civil Surgeon, in medical charge of the Residency at Bushire.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 172, and terminates at f 206, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains three foliation anomalies: f 172a, f 177a, and f 182a.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 4 August 1874, forwarding, for information, twelve copies of the Annual Medical Report on Bushire [Būshehr] for the year ending 31 March 1874, by surgeon George Waters, Civil Surgeon in medical charge of the Bushire Residency.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 100, and terminates at f 220a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains eight foliation anomalies: f 100a, f 115a, f 130a, f 145a, f 160a, f 190a, f 205a, and f 220a.