Search

Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Government of France, Third Republic, 1871-1940 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/911

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/911
Title:
File 4917/1920 'MESOPOTAMIA: MANDATE [AND PALESTINE]'
Scope & Content:
The volume includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, minutes, draft mandates and conventions. The correspondence is mainly about the British Mandate for Palestine and Mesopotamia, and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon. British and French officials exchanged draft copies o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jun 1920-31 Dec 1924
Extent:

1 volume (377 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/2963

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2963
Title:
Coll 20/11 'Muscat: Channel of communication between foreign governments and the Sultan; Visits of foreign naval vessels to Muscat'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, minutes, and notes concerning visits to Muscat by French and Italian vessels and the discussion of the correct channels foreign states should go through to seek permission for such visits. The file covers the following visits: French warships Mondement and Alert...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
11 Feb 1926-9 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (121 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/2997

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2997
Title:
Coll 20/37 'Muscat: French connections under Muscat'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to French relations with Muscat. Included in the file: correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India concerning French requests to communicate with the Sultan of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jul 1932-21 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B51
Title:
Memorandum on the French claim to the island of Karrack, by Sir H C Rawlinson
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, compiled on 28 December 1889 by Sir Henry Rawlinson , refers to a Letter from the Foreign Office, dated 20 September 1889. The subject is the alleged cession of the Island of Kharg [Iran] from the Persian Government to France in 1836-37, which seemed improbable and, anywa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1889
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B60
Title:
Memorandum on Sheikh Said
Scope & Content:
The memorandum was created based on the re-awakened interest on the part of the French in Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd], and is a collection of information held in the Political and Secret Department of the India Office relating to the territory. It Includes a summary of: the acquisition of Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Mar 1893
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B118
Title:
Mem: Conclusion of the Declaration with France as to Muscat in 1862 and the acquisition of Gwadar by Muscat.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum explaining that Lord Canning, Viceroy and Governor General of India, had arbitrated between the two sons of Sultan Syud Saeed [Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd]upon his death. The two sons agreed the division of their inheritance between them as Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat resp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jan 1899
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B119
Title:
Memorandum by Sir W. Lee-Warner on the Lease to France of a Coaling Station in Muskat Territory - Statement of our Case (Political No. 1837/99).
Scope & Content:
A memorandum describing how it had emerged that the Sultan of Muskat had granted the French a concession to establish a coaling station on his territory, and stating that the Sultan had only produced the text of the concession upon threat of bombardment by the British. The memorandum goes on to d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1899
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B129

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B129
Title:
Muscat
Scope & Content:
A memorandum on British relations with Muscat for the years 1895 to 1901. It was prepared by Colin George Campbell for the India Office on 7 June 1901. The document gives a history of British and French relations with the Sultans of Muscat, and to a lesser extent, Zanzibar. It opens with a brie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1901
Extent:

1 file (20 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B135
Title:
Memorandum on the Use of the French Flag by Subjects of the Sultan of Maskat
Scope & Content:
This file is a memorandum concerning the use of the French flag by dhows belonging to subjects of the Sultan of Maskat [Muscat]. The memorandum is divided up as follows: Abstract of correspondence 1891-92; 1894-96; 1897-99; 1900; 1901; Summary; Extent to which French jurisdiction has been clai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1901
Extent:

1 volume (5 folios)

10. 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)