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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/281
Title:: Papers relating to transfer of Middle Eastern Affairs to the Colonial Office and creation of a new Department there, 1920-1921, with Cabinet notes of Milner, Montague, Churchill, self, and others
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and reports concerning the administration of Mesopotamia and other Middle Eastern territories and the transfer of responsibility for Middle Eastern Affairs to a new department within the Colonial Office. Authors and correspondents include Cur...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 May 1920-10 Feb 1921
Extent:: 1 file (68 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/286
Title:: Letters and Papers on the Mesopotamia Commission and the Cabinet Committee on Iraq
Scope & Content:: The file contains memoranda, correspondence, and other papers relating to the Mesopotamia [Iraq] Commission (the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the Mesopotamia campaign), British policy in relation to Mesopotamia after the First World War, and the Cabinet Committee on Iraq. These pap...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 4 Jun 1917-11 Oct 1923
Extent:: 1 file (95 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/287
Title:: Papers Relating to the League of Nations Mandates
Scope & Content:: File containing correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the creation of the League of Nations mandates, by which the administration of former colonies of Germany and the Ottoman Empire [Turkey] was granted variously to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Japan. Much of the file i...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 30 Jan 1919-15 Jan 1922
Extent:: 1 file (323 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/294
Title:: Mosul Question, Lausanne 1922-1923 and after - Papers, despatches, speeches - Hotel de la Mer at Lausanne - Correspondence about oil
Scope & Content:: Letters and papers on the frontier between Iraq (also written as Irak in the file) and Turkey, with particular reference to Mosul and questions concerning oil. The file consists mainly of correspondence between Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs George Curzon, and officials in the Foreign Of...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Nov 1922-3 Nov 1923
Extent:: 251 folios (1 file)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/365
Title:: Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's Travels through Persia
Scope & Content:: This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes and sketches in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes mostly relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notebook begins with general notes; later folios resemble diary entries, with date headings included from folio 36 ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Oct 1889-Nov 1889
Extent:: 1 volume (90 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/366
Title:: Notebook of George Nathaniel Curzon's travels through Persia
Scope & Content:: This volume is a bound notebook with handwritten notes in pencil by George Nathaniel Curzon. The notes, which follow on from an earlier notebook, Mss Eur F112/365, relate to Curzon's travels through Persia in 1889-90. The notes cover the period 25 November 1889 to 2 January 1890 and particularly ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Nov 1889-2 Jan 1890
Extent:: 1 volume (90 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/375
Title:: Notes of a journey from Kasreen to Hamadan across the Karaghan country. By J. D. Rees
Scope & Content:: The volume consists of the printed notes taken by John David Rees, Under-Secretary to the Government of Madras, during his journey between Kasveen [Qazvin] and Hamadan, Persia [Iran]. The notes were printed by the Government Press at Madras [Chennai], in October 1885. The volume contains a map ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Oct 1885
Extent:: 1 volume (23 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/376
Title:: ‘GAZETTEER OF PERSIA VOL. I Comprising the Provinces of ASTARÁBÁD, SHÁHRUD-BÚSTAN, KHÚRÁSÁN, AND SÍSTÁN’
Scope & Content:: This volume is Volume I of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1886 edition). It was compiled for political and military reference by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Metcalfe MacGregor, Assistant Quarter Master General, in 1871, and brought up to 31 July 1885 by the Intelligence Branch, Quarter Mast...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1886-1895
Extent:: 1 volume (354 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/377
Title:: Additions and Corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia, Volumes I and IV
Scope & Content:: The file consists of printed papers containing additions and corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia. These papers include cuttings and extracts from the camp diaries of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Yate, 1894, compiled by Lieutenant D R Adye, 6th Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent, in the for...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1896-1904
Extent:: 1 file (335 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/384
Title:: Turkish Arabia: Being an Account of an Official Tour in Babylonia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia, 1886-87
Scope & Content:: This volume is a printed account of the official winter tour of 1886-87 in Babylonia, Assyria and Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) undertaken by Colonel William Tweedie, Bengal Staff Corps, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia (Iraq) and His Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad. The purpose of the t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 volume (35 folios)

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