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741. IOR/L/PS/18/C153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C153
Title:
Bunder Abbas – Kerman Railway
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, written by Lord Curzon [George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston], discusses a proposed Bunder Abbas–Kerman railway line. Curzon considers the possible diplomatic, commercial and strategic motives for constructing the railway line. Curzon argues that if the line h...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1916
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

742. IOR/L/PS/18/B428

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B428
Title:
Status of Basidu
Scope & Content:
This is a printed confidential memorandum by Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office, dated 18 Oct 1933 and revised 30 October 1933. It concerns details and relevant facts since 1720 with regards to the status of the British concession at Basidu [Bāsa‘īdū] on the Island of Kishm in the P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1933
Extent:

1 file (46 folios)

743. IOR/L/PS/18/B233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B233
Title:
'THE WAR WITH TURKEY. Memorandum by Political Department, India Office.'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, dated 25 May 1916, examining the implications of war with Turkey on Great Britain particularly the importance to Germany of a Turco-Ottoman alliance and the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and the corresponding importance of its dissolution to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1916
Extent:

4 folios

744. IOR/L/PS/18/B235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B235
Title:
‘The Arab Revolt. Views of an Indian Moslem [Muslim].’
Scope & Content:
A secret memorandum containing an extract of a letter, received by Edward Ernest Long, former editor of the Indian Daily Telegraph, and written by an unnamed Indian Muslim. A copy of another letter, written by Long, dated 7 July 1916, precedes the main letter, in which Long describes the views o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1916
Extent:

2 folios

745. IOR/L/PS/18/B2/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B2/5
Title:
Zanzibar, Arabia, and the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum written by Henry Thoby Prinsep, member of the Council of India, 15 July 1868. The document addresses seven matters pertaining to Britain's relations with Muscat, Zanzibar, and Persia, as follows: 1. The transfer of diplomatic relations to the Foreign Office; 2. The appointm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jul 1868
Extent:

4 folios

746. IOR/L/PS/18/B197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B197
Title:
Bagdad Railway and Persian Gulf. The Negotiations with Hakki Pasha [Ibrahim Hakki Pasha]
Scope & Content:
A report concerning a series of meetings held at the Foreign Office in April/May 1913 between Ottoman diplomat Hakki Pasha [Ibrahim Hakki Pasha] and two British officials, Sir Louis du Pan Mallet and Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel. The negotiations concerned the construction of the Gulf section o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 May 1913
Extent:

1 volume (2 folios)

747. IOR/L/PS/18/C10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C10
Title:
No.33. Memorandum communicated to the Earl of Derby by Malcolm Khan, April 8 1874
Scope & Content:
Memorandum written in French and published by the Foreign Office in 1874. The memorandum discusses the situation in Persia, including the interior and exterior threats the country faces, and the potential threat the situation poses to the borders of the British Empire. The perceived exterior...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Apr 1874
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

748. IOR/L/PS/18/C193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C193
Title:
Memorandum Regarding the Policy of His Majesty's Government Towards Persia at the Peace Conference.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a Foreign Office memorandum concerning the policy of His Majesty's Government towards Persia at the forthcoming peace conference [the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-20]. In its introduction the memorandum states that His Majesty's Government must be prepared for the eventua...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1918
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

749. IOR/L/PS/18/B363

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B363
Title:
Mesopotamia. Establishment of Council of State for 'Iraq.
Scope & Content:
This is a printed document, No. S.D./170A, issued by the Secretary to the High Commissioner for Mesopotamia and intended to be forwarded to all Officers of the British Civil Administration in Mesopotamia. The document is a record of the steps taken by the High Commissioner (Sir Percy Zachariah C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1920
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

750. IOR/L/PS/18/C91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C91
Title:
Letter from Sir M. Durand to Foreign Office
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a letter from Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister at Tehran to the Foreign Office, introducing an enclosure from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes regarding the proposed telegraph line from Kerman to India, dated 22 September 1898. Sykes details the potential starting points for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1898
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)