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1. IOR/L/PS/10/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/9
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 2 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, telegrams, despatches, notes and memoranda relating to financial loans made by the Governments of Great Britain and Russia to the Government of Persia from 1901 to 1905; and potential loans to be made during 1906 and 1907. The volume discusses the failure o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Dec 1905-12 Feb 1908
Extent:

1 volume (527 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/868

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/868
Title:
File 6665/1919 Pt 1 ‘MESOPOTAMIA: ADMINISTRATION. INCIDENCE OF COST; DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS REVENUES; CLAIMS OF THE OTTOMAN PUBLIC DEBT; STAMP DUTIES; CONTROL AND AUDIT OF EXPENDITURE’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, resolutions, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding different aspects of the administration in Mesopotamia. The papers notably cover: The incidence of cost of the temporary administration of Basra [also written in the correspondence as Basrah Wi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1914-14 Nov 1918
Extent:
1 volume (288 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1242

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1242
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 11 'Arabia: Iraq-Nejd Frontier Affairs: Ibn Saud's Request for Arms etc, Saudi Debts to H.M.G.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the supply of arms and ammunition to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and Nejd, by the Government of India in 1929, to enable him to suppress potential trouble with the Ajman tribe. The papers go on to record the attempts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1929-9 Nov 1938
Extent:
1 file (485 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/444
Title:
PZ 6479/40 Correspondence regarding Payment for Photographs supplied by the Government of Palestine to the Government of Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Government of Palestine, the Crown Agents for the Colonies and the India Office regarding a request from the Government of Palestine for payment for a number of photographs sent to the Government of Bahrain. The file also contains correspondence from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1940-10 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2088

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2088
Title:
Coll 6/21(2) 'Saudi Arabia: Relations with H.M.G.: Saudi Legation in London and British Minister in Jeddah. Prolongation of Treaty of Jedda.'
Scope & Content:
This file, like the previous volume (IOR/L/PS/12/2087), concerns relations between the British Government and the Government of Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, mainly between His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, Sir Reader William...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1935-12 Apr 1947
Extent:
1 file (379 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/2097

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2097
Title:
Coll 6/31 'Hejaz: Hejaz-Polish Relations. Polish Arms for Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
This file, which consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia) and the Polish Government. The correspondence includes the following: Details of the visit of a Polish delegation to Jedda in May 1930. Repo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Jun 1929-19 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/3419

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3419
Title:
Coll 28/22 ’Persia; Relations with H.M.G. Persian Debt to H.M.G.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the Persian Government’s desire, signalled in June 1931, to pay off in full a pre-war interest-bearing debt owed to Britain, totalling £490,000. Correspondence is chiefly exchanged between the Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter, George William Rendel), the India Off...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Jun 1931-1 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (191 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B357

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B357
Title:
Liabilities of Persia.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a printed document entitled 'Liabilities of Persia', which contains a transcription of a letter from the India Office to the Foreign Office. The letter is from John Evelyn Shuckburgh, India Office, to the Under Secretary of State, Foreign Office in response to proposals made...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1920
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C64
Title:
Persia. Note on the memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia - HC 1274 of 1895 [L/PS/3/349].
Scope & Content:
This note on the memorandum produced by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran 1894-1900, was written by Sir William Lee-Warner and focuses on various issues relating to the current situation in Persia. These include: the issue of the Regie debt; concerns over the successi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1896
Extent:

2 folios

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C64a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C64a
Title:
Memorandum by Sir M Durand on the situation in Persia
Scope & Content:
This memorandum was created on the 27 September 1895 by Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister Plenipotentiary to Tehran, and printed for the use of the Foreign Office in December 1895. It outlines the current situation in Persia [Iran] and the steps which should be taken to improve the position of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1895
Extent:

21 folios