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521. IOR/L/PS/10/382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/382
Title:
File 2073/1913 ‘Baghdad Railway: Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with negotiations with the Ottoman Government over a new navigation concession for the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. These negotiations — facilitated by the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade — are between Ibrahim Hakki Pasha and Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), and a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 May 1913-22 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

522. IOR/L/PS/10/530

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/530
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 3 'German War: banking arrangements at Jeddah'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers - correspondence and India Office papers and internal notes - relating to banking arrangements at Jeddah. It includes papers relating to the following: The Basra branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank applying for permission to do business with the Bank’s Jeddah Agency. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1915-3 Jul 1919
Extent:

1 volume (175 folios)

523. IOR/L/PS/10/657

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/657
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 1 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 1 to 65’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin numbers 1-65 produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the Middle East, Arabia, and elsewhere, which – in the opinion of British officials – affect the ‘...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1917
Extent:
1 volume (616 folios)

524. IOR/L/PS/10/464

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/464
Title:
File 3136/1914 Pt 4 ‘German War. Egyptian situation’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to Britain’s position in Egypt at the beginning of the First World War. The papers cover: behind-the-scenes diplomatic negotiations between British Government officials and Arab and Muslim representatives; reports of anti-British or Egyptian-nationalist propaganda, much of which ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1915
Extent:

1 volume (368 folios)

525. IOR/L/PS/9/71/261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/261
Title:
‘Extracts from the Private Journal of Col. Macdonald’
Scope & Content:
Extracts from the private journal of the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, from 17 December 1827 to 27 March 1828. The journal covers the period of the negotiations for the peace treaty signed at Toorkomanchaee [Treaty of Turkamanchay] in Febru...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Dec 1827-27 Mar 1828
Extent:

1 item (38 folios)

526. IOR/L/PS/9/76/225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/225
Title:
Report on the Kingdom of the Agvans [Afghanistan]
Scope & Content:
A report written in French and dated Bagdad [Baghdad], 23 April 1802, relaying information received from a messenger from Tahran [Tehran] concerning the Kingdom of the Agvans [Afghanistan]. The report describes a siege of Herat led by Chah Zadé Kaisser [Shāhzādeh Qaiṣar] and rumours of attacks...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
23 Apr 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

527. IOR/L/PS/12/3476

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3476
Title:
Coll 28/72 ‘Persia. Telegraph stations at Jask; Question of Persian encroachments and realignment of boundary.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the British Legation in Tehran, including HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and the Foreign Office, including the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, John Allsebrook Simon. The correspondence concerns questions over the extent of the conc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Jun 1932-7 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (108 folios)

528. IOR/L/PS/12/3479

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3479
Title:
Coll 28/75 ‘Persia; Persian Baluchistan. Persian allegations of improper British activities. Visit of Persian official to Gwadur. Indo-Persian Frontier Conference, 1935.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning tribal unrest on the frontier between Persia [Iran] and British India, more specifically the region of Persia referred to as Persian Baluchistan [Sistan and Baluchistan Province] and Baluchistan Province in modern-day Pakistan, and efforts to control cross-border moveme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Mar 1934-23 Jun 1941
Extent:
1 file (515 folios)

529. IOR/L/PS/12/3582

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3582
Title:
Coll 29/25 'Tabriz: office allowance'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the British Consulate at Tabriz. The file covers: office expendituregrant of an allowance to the Acting Consulemployment of a clerk-typistcost of living in Tabrizproposal to grant a bonus on salaries of staffoffice allowance grants. The file is composed of correspondence betwe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Mar 1919-26 Jun 1934
Extent:
1 file (98 folios)

530. IOR/L/PS/5/381, ff 3-29

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/381, ff 3-29
Title:
Affairs in Aden
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 2-7 to a dispatch from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 1 January 1840. The enclosures are dated 21 October-16 December 1839. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in Aden, including: The potential threat posed to Aden and the rest of Ye...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Jan 1840
Extent:
1 item (27 folios)