Scope and Contents

A number of letters, etc, written and collected at the request of friends by Khwājah Shihāb al-Dīn, or as he calls himself, ‘Abd-Allāh b. Muḥammad al-Marwārīd (d. 922 A.H., 1516 C.E.), a poet from Kerman, present day Iran, who used the pen name "Bayānī".

Scope and Contents

A collection of letters, etc., written by the celebrated Shaykh Abū al-Faz̤l "Allāmī". These were collected soon after the author's death, 1011 A.H., 1602 C.E., by his sister's son, ‘Abd al-Ṣamad b. Afz̤al Muḥammad, and completed, according to the title, which is its chronogram, in 1015 A.H., 1606-1607 C.E.

Copied by Shīw-Bakhsh in the Faṣlī year 1178 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents).

Scope and Contents

A collection of letters written to the Mughal ruler Shāhjahān (r. 1628–1658 C.E.) and other distinguished individuals during his reign, by Chandarbhān (d. 1068 or 1073 A.H., 1657 or 1662 C.E.), poetically named "Brahman". He was for a time a record-writer at the royal court and author of the Chahār-Chaman.

Copied in the Faṣlī year 1179 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents) by Ṣāhib-Singh of Fatḥpūr (Awadh).

Scope and Contents

An incomplete collection of letters written by Ranjhūr-Dās (fl. 1732), also called Ranchūr-Dās, son of Ranjīt-Rā who was a Kāyath of Jawnpur. The author states in the preface that he made the selection for his younger son, Rādha-Kishn. The letters are followed by a work apparently on grammar, but with no clear beginning or end.

Scope and Contents A letter stated to have been sent by Shāh-‘Abbās II of Persia, after his conquest of Kandahar in 1058 A.H. (1648 C.E.), to Jahāngīr, emperor of India, with the reply of the letter included.A Descriptive Catalogue of the Arabic and Persian Manuscripts in Edinburgh University Library by Mohammad Hukk et al. (1925) states: "This is evidently wrong, for ‘Abbās II, who ascended the throne, A.H. 1052 (A.D. 1642), was a contemporary of...

Scope and Contents

A collection of letters composed by Shīr ‘Alī, or his more common name 'Shīr-Ḥamlah'. Copied by Shīw-Bakhsh in the Faṣlī year 1178 (see dating for A.H. and C.E. equivalents) at Maḥmūdābād.

Scope and Contents This is a collection of transcriptions of 95 letters, of which 37 were sent to the Nawwāb Vazīr al-Mumālik Sa'adat 'Alī Khān of Oudh between July 28th, 1808 C.E., and June 18th, 1814 C.E., by the three Governors-General:Sir George Barlow (1). Lord Minto (26). Lord Moira (10).Further, there are copies of ten letters addressed to the Governors-General by the Bīgams of Oudh. The remaining 48 letters contain dispatches from the Nawwāb Vazīr to the Governors-General (44)...

Scope and Contents This is a collection of transcriptions of correspondence carried on between the 2nd Sh'abān, 1229 A.H. (20th July, 1814 C.E.), and the 15th Zulḥijjah, 1230 A.H. (18th November, 1815 C.E.), between the Governor-General and the Nawwāb Vazīr Ghazī al-Dīn Haydar Khān of Oudh. This Nawwāb became Nawwāb Vazīr after the death of his father, Nawwāb Vazīr al-Mumālik Sa'adat 'Alī Khān on the 22nd Rajab, 1229 A.H. (1st August, 1814 C.E.). Five years later, with the full consent of the British, he...

Scope and Contents

This volume contains transcriptions of a collection of 869 letters, dispatches, etc., which were sent to the Nawwāb Vazīr al-Mumālik Sa'adat 'Alī Khān of Oudh by Colonel John Baillie, British Resident at Lucknow, between the 2nd Jumādā I, 1222 A.H. (9th July, 1807 C.E.), and the 28th Zulḥijjah, 1224 A.H. (4th February, 1810 C.E). The contents of these letters are miscellaneous and deal with the affairs of the Ṣūbah of Oudh.

Scope and Contents

A large collection of transcriptions of 1488 letters, which were originally sent to the Nawwāb Vazīr al-Mumālik Sa'adat 'Alī Khān of Oudh by Colonel John Baillie, British Resident at Lucknow, between the 1st Muḥarram, 1225 A.H. (6th February, 1810 C.E.), and the 28th Zulḥijjah, 1227 A.H. (2nd January, 1813 C.E.). The contents of these letters relate mostly to the subjects mentioned in the description of OR MS 127-129. For replies to some of the letters in the current volume see OR MS 131.