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641. IOR/L/PS/18/B112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B112
Title:
Note on the Turkish Fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. (With Sketch Map of the Shat-el-Arab.) 1883 to 1897.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum of the events and correspondence relating to the Turkish construction of a fort at Fao on the Shat-el-Arab. The memorandum reproduces a number of representations made by the British Government both directly to the Turkish Porte and through the Persian Government, objecting to the con...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Jun 1897
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)

642. IOR/L/PS/18/B153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B153
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum concerning the Baghdad railway written by Alwyn Parker,who had negotiated with both the German Government and the Ottoman Empire on this issue and was considered the Foreign Office's specialist on the topic. The memorandum is divided up as follows: 1. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jun 1906
Extent:

1 volume (25 folios)

643. IOR/L/PS/18/B156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B156
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Aden Frontier Delimitation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum giving an account of the Aden frontier delimitation, and treaty relations with the Aden tribes from 1873. Compiled by the Foreign Office, 11 December 1905. It discusses the following: tribes with whom Her Majesty's Government has direct relations; boundary disp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Mar 1906
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

644. IOR/L/PS/18/B172

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B172
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway, 1909
Scope & Content:
A printed confidential memorandum for the use of the Foreign Office. The memorandum addresses the Turkish [Ottoman] increase of custom dues and proposals of a Tigris Valley Railway and a Baghdad-Mediterranean Railway. It also contains updates on negotiations with Germany, Russia and France in 19...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1910
Extent:

bound in volume with other documents (17 folios)

645. IOR/L/PS/18/B195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B195
Title:
Navigation on the rivers of Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file provides an account of the navigation of the rivers of Mesopotamia from 1640, with a series of extracts from despatches, letters, reports, a diary, a treaty, and an order. It details agreements between England and Turkey; the movements of British steamers within the region; the question...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Aug 1883
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

646. 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)

647. IOR/L/PS/18/B209

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B209
Title:
Abstract of Correspondence and Memorandum respecting the Yemen
Scope & Content:
The file contains an account given on the control and occupation of Yemen from June 1832 onwards. It covers the rebellion of Toorche Bilmer; the acquisition of Mocha by Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt; the intentions of Mehemet Ali towards Aden, Muscat, and Baghdad; relations with the British Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jan 1873
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

648. IOR/L/PS/18/B259

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B259
Title:
Correspondence between Britain, France and Russia in regards to Arabia
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, in English and French, between M Sazanof, Ministre des Affaires Étrangeres (Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs); Maurice Paléologue, Ambassadeur de France en Russie (French Ambassador to Russia); Paul Cambon (French Amabassador to the United Kingdom); and Sir Edward Gray, Secre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Apr 1917
Extent:

10 folios

649. IOR/L/PS/18/B292

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B292
Title:
Memorandum on British Commitments to King Husein
Scope & Content:
This is a printed memorandum outlining British commitments made to King Husein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī] compiled by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office. The memorandum is split into seven sections as follows: 'General Guarantees against the Restoration of the status q...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

10 folios

650. IOR/L/PS/18/B339

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B339
Title:
Syria and Mesopotamia: Anglo-French declaration of 8 November 1918
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a copy of the 'Syria and Mesopotamia: Anglo-French declaration of 8 November 1918'. It is written in French and expresses the wishes of Britain and France to liberate those they feel have been 'too long oppressed by the Turks' by helping them to install functional government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Nov 1918
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

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