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1. IOR/L/PS/10/12

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/12
Title:
File 3142/1903 'Hedjaz Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains copies of correspondence between British officials regarding the construction of the Hedjaz [Hijaz] Railway. The correspondence discusses a number of different aspects of the railway including its route, the progress of its construction and donations made towards its constru...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1901-1908
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/40
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 1 'Mohammerah: Karun Irrigation Scheme.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memorandum, notes, and reports on the Karun irrigation scheme, including many diagrams of the construction and layout. The principal correspondents are the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), and representatives of the Indi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1911
Extent:
1 volume (418 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/160
Title:
File 3874/1908 'Railways:-Trans-Persian Railway.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memoranda, notes and reports on the proposed construction of the Trans-Persia railway which would link the European and Indian railway systems. The economic and strategic considerations of the construction of a railway linking Calais, Berlin, Bagh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1911
Extent:
1 volume (267 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/C206

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C206
Title:
No. 1. Memorandum: American Advisers for Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum briefly outlines the historical basis of Britain's interest in Persia, and the development of relations between the two countries; this includes the development and abandonment of the Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Persian agreements. It also contains a brief assessment of Persia's finan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1922
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/520

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/520
Title:
Ext 3041/41 'Mrs. Hiller - Whereabouts.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between HM Minister at Kabul and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, consisting of an enquiry into the whereabouts of a Mrs Hiller, and her subsequent location at an address in London.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1941-5 Jun 1941
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/100
Title:
File 2818/1906 'Persia: Seistan disturbances and consular guard'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence which discusses a serious disturbance in Seistan in which a crowd attacked the British Consul over measures taken to limit the outbreak of plague. The dispatch of Indian Army troops to the town is discussed in the context of a consideration of the efficacy of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1909
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/322

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/322
Title:
PZ 8058/1939 'Persia: censorship of news'
Scope & Content:
This letter was sent from Horace James Seymour (British Minister at Tehran) to Viscount Halifax (Foreign Secretary), and details the practice of, and possible reasons for, police censorship of the news in Persia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1939-10 Jan 1940
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/166
Title:
File 3047/1909 'Railways: Asiatic Turkey; railway construction in Asia Minor'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the construction of railways in Asiatic Turkey, 1908-1911, as well as oil concessions in Mesopotamia. Correspondence outlines the proposal to develop a railway from Tripoli via Homs and Deir [Deir ez-Z...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1908-1911
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/171

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/171
Title:
PZ 5636/35 'Egypt: Annual Reports 1934 -1938'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises five printed Foreign Office annual reports (for the years 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938) relating to Egypt. The printed reports follow the same format. They start with a letter from the High Commissioner to Egypt (Sir Miles Lampson) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Aug 1935-22 Sep 1939
Extent:
1 volume (166 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/591
Title:
File 1110/1916 Pt 2 'Persia: SITUATION Miscellaneous'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, on miscellaneous topics relating to Persia, April to June 1916. The file includes correspondence regarding the following issues: The disposal of Germans and Swedes now interned at Tehran The Russian advance from ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1920
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)