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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Language Turkish, Ottoman Level [40] File

1. IOR/G/29/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/24
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia received from Bassora, 1799-1811
Scope & Content:
Originals and duplicates of correspondence, comprising secret letters, excerpts of reports, schedules, translated letters and transcripts in original languages (Ottoman Turkish and French), in 331 enclosures received from Bassora [Basra, Iraq] and addressed to the Secret Department. Papers relate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
13 Jan 1799-18 Dec 1811
Extent:
1 volume (767 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/376

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/376
Title:
'ENCLOSURES SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY' Vol 14
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of enclosures to despatches from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee. The volume is divided into seventeen items: Afghanistan Affairs (ff 2-33) Intelligence Reports ('Newsletters') (ff 34-42) Memorandum of Int...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
11 Mar 1839-31 Jul 1839
Extent:
1 volume (700 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/12
Title:
File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of correspondence between British officials regarding the construction of the Hedjaz [Hijaz] Railway. The correspondence discusses a number of different aspects of the railway including its route, the progress of its construction and donations made towards its constru...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1901-1908
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/551

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/551
Title:
File 1740/1915 Pt 1-2 'Arabia: Policy in Hadramaut, Yemen'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence and other papers relating to British policy in connection with the Hadramaut (also written Hadhramut and Hadhramaut). The correspondence covers internal affairs, relations with tribal leaders, activities of the Turks and the Imam of Yemen, boundary questions,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
10 May 1915-18 Jul 1919
Extent:

1 volume (419 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/670

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/670
Title:
File 1323/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: Postage Stamps'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and telegrams related to the temporary administration of Baghdad Vilayet [province] and the question of the type of postage stamps to be used for the civil post office at Baghdad during the British occupation. The correspondence is partic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Mar 1915-18 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (274 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/C138/1
Title:
''A HANDBOOK OF MESOPOTAMIA VOLUME 1 GENERAL''
Scope & Content:
This volume is Handbook of Mesopotamia, Volume 1: General (Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division: August 1916). The handbook contains a variety of information about the region of Mesopotamia, including its geography, economy, population, and history. The prefatory note at the start of the v...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, Kurdish, Persian, Syriac, Classical, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
Aug 1916
Extent:

1 volume (367 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/110
Title:
‘Book 153 1847’ Vol 153 Letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire between January and November 1847, mainly from the following British officials: Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, British Envoy at the Court of the Shah of Persia, Tehran; Henry Wel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
7 Jan 1847-8 Nov 1847
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/179

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/179
Title:
Vol 282 Head IV, Volume 11 (eleven) Bahrein and Wahabee Complications
Scope & Content:
Correspondence regarding relations between the people of Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Wahabees [Wahhabis] and the involvement of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Captain (James) Felix Jones, in affairs. The correspondence consists of letters and reports sent by Captain Jones to the Secr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
26 Sep 1859-14 Jan 1862
Extent:
2 volumes (354 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/10
Title:
File A/14 Shaikh Hamad bin Muhammad Al Khalifa and his intrigues with the Turkish authorities
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the actions and grievances of Shaikh Ḥamad bin Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, cousin of Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah, the ruler of Bahrain. The key correspondents in the file are Shaikh Ḥamad and Shaikh ‘Īsá, and a succession of Political Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
23 Dec 1904-19 Jan 1916
Extent:
1 volume (123 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1981
Title:
‘Bahrainese abroad’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence from two distinct periods. Correspondence at the beginning and end of the file is dated 1909 to 1913 (ff 2-16, ff 52-87), and discusses the British protection of Bahrainis in Ottoman Turkey, in response to Ottoman Government representatives in Constantinople [Is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
22 Sep 1873-1 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 file (86 folios)