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Collection Area India Office Records and Private Papers Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Syria, Middle East

1. IOR/L/MIL/17/16/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/16/15
Title:
A handbook of Syria (including Palestine). London: Naval Staff Intelligence Department, June 1919
Scope & Content:
Admiralty handbook regarding Syria (including Palestine) 'to as far north as the River Orontes and a line Antioch-Aleppo-Meskeneh. For details of the part of Syria beyond this line reference must be made to the Handbook of Asia Minor, Vol. iv, Part 2 (C.B. 847 C).' 'Contents. Chapters: I. Bound...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919
Extent:
1 volume (365 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 154-210

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/380, ff 154-210
Title:
Military Affairs in Afghanistan, India, Egypt and Syria, and Turkish Arabia
Scope & Content:
The item comprises enclosures to a despatch, Number 117 of 1839, dated 25 October 1839, from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the East India Company Secret Committee containing a précis of the latest financial, military, political and general intelligence on: Lahore; Mooltan [Multan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1839
Extent:
1 item (57 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 260-882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 260-882
Title:
Affairs in Various Places in Asia and the Middle East
Scope & Content:
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 93 of 1840, dated 31 October 1840. The enclosures are numbered 3-244 and are dated 13 January to 31 October 1840. Enclosure numbers 20-31, 121-26...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (623 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/12
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM THE E.I.C. RESIDENT IN THE PERSIAN GULF 1842-43 FROM AGENT IN SYRIA 1842-43 FROM AGENT WITH IMAUM OF MUSCAT 1842-43’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters to the Secret Committee of the East India Company from: Lieutenant-Colonel Davies, in charge of the Residency in the Persian Gulf; the Officiating Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Dundas Robertson; HM’s Consuls and East India Company’s Agents in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1842-13 Apr 1844
Extent:
1 volume (227 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/67/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/1
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
A dispatch from Lord Mornington, Governor-General of Bengal, at Fort St George, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 3 September 1799, regarding: the dispatch of an embassy to the court of Baba Khan [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], King [Shah] of Persia [Iran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Sep 1799-5 Sep 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/76/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/39
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Jacob Bosanquet, John Blankett and Robert Abbott
Scope & Content:
Copies of three letters from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Vienna and Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad in July-August 1798: 1. A letter to Jacob Bosanquet, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Vienna and dat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 July 1798-18 Aug 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/76/92

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/92
Title:
Report on Syria
Scope & Content:
A report compiled by John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, concerning the feasibility of a French army reaching the Euphrates and the entrance to the Persian Gulf from Syria. It covers issues including: The grain surplus in Aleppo Roads from Latichia [Latakia] and Alexandretta [Iskenderun] to the Eu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1799
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/339

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/339
Title:
File 451/1913 Pt 1-2 'Koweit and Bahrein: Oil Deposits. Water Supply.'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence pertaining to two distinct topics. Part one discusses the possibility of discovering oil deposits in Koweit [Kuwait] and Bahrein [Bahrain], with some reference also made to the potential for deposits to be found in Syria and the Farsa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1918
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/415

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/415
Title:
File 4044/1913 Pts 1-2 'Bagdad Railway Negotiations'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains drafts and counter-drafts of the Anglo-German Convention on the Bagdad Railway, plus agreements involving the Bagdad Railway Company, the Ottoman Railway Company, the Anatolian Railway Company, and the Ottoman Government. There is also correspondence regarding the negotiation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
1913-1914
Extent:
1 volume (285 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/523

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/523
Title:
File P 53 1915 Pt 1 'German War - The Khalifate and Pan-Arab Movement'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to British support for an Arab caliphate under British suzerainty. The discussion in the volume relates to the plots to foment a rebellion in the Arab Ottoman provinces and the military support required fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:
1 volume (360 folios)