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1. Add MS 39106

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Add MS 39106
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Scope & Content:
Vol. CLXXVI (ff. 437). May- July, 1863. Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley: Correspondence with Sir A. H. Layard: 1846-1881. includes: ff. 1, 147, 157, 166 John Hanning Speke, African explorer: Letters, etc., rel. to: 1863, 1864. ff. 1, 147, 249 Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
May 1863-Jul 1863
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 52455-52459

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Add MS 52455-52459
Title:
SIR A. T. WILSON PAPERS Correspondence and papers of Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson, K.C.I.E. (b. 1884, d. 1940), mostly relating to his service in Mesopotamia as Deputy Chief Political Officer with Indian Expeditionary Force 'D' from 1915 to 1916, and as Deputy, afterwards Acting, Civil Commissioner from 1916 to 1920; 1915-1930. The collection was used and occasionally quoted by John Marlowe, Late Victorian, 1967, and by E. Kedourie in England and the Middle East, 1956. The transfer of the MSS. t...
Scope & Content:
Army; England: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. T. Wilson rel. to Mesopotamia: 1915-1930. Mesopotamia: Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson, KCIE; MP: Correspondence and papers of Sir A. T. Wilson mostly rel. to Iraq,: 1915-1930.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, Armenian, English, French, Hebrew, Panjabi, and Persian
Date Range:
1915-1930
Extent:
11 items

3. IOR/L/MIL/5/808

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IOR/L/MIL/5/808
Title:
'Intelligence Mesopotamia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of various telegrams on railways between the Director of Military Intelligence, the Commander-in-Chief India, the General Officer Commanding Mesopotamia, and the Caucasus Military Agent during the period July-November 1917. Principal subjects of discussion are: the exte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Jul 1917-10 Nov 1917
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

4. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3278

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IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3278
Title:
‘WAR DIARY. ARMY HEADQUARTERS, INDIA. […] I.E.F. “D”. Volume 35. PART I. (From 1st to 15th June 1917).’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains a chronological list of brief summaries of papers relating to the activities of the Indian Expeditionary Force D (also known as the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force) between 1 and 15 June 1917. This is accompanied by appendices containing copies and extracts of these papers, w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Sep 1915-15 Jun 1917
Extent:
1 volume (209 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/244

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IOR/L/PS/10/244
Title:
File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, telegrams, handwritten notes and other papers. They relate to negotiations between the British Government, the Government of India, and the Persian Government, over the status of British Indian post offices in south Persia, which took place before, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1920-1922
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/300
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1904-4 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 volume (412 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/302/1

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IOR/L/PS/10/302/1
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/301), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Mar 1914-25 Nov 1915
Extent:

1 part (184 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/302/2

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IOR/L/PS/10/302/2
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914
Extent:

1 part (87 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/367
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf: Trade Commercial Mission’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with commercial possibilities within Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf for British trade. Of particular concern for British officials is ensuring that British firms are placed in the best possible position to counter expected competition from Germany and Japan following th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Jul 1916-12 Dec 1919
Extent:
1 volume (285 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/463

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/463
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 2 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’
Scope & Content:
Papers concerning events in Mesopotamia and in the Persian Gulf, leading up to and immediately after the outbreak of war between Great Britain and Turkey. The file is a chronological continuation of File 3136/1914 Pt 1 ‘German War. Situation in Turkish Arabia & Persian Gulf’ (IOR/L/PS/10/462...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Oct 1914-8 Dec 1914
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)