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891. IOR/L/PS/10/86

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/86
Title:
File 2776/1905 Pt 1-2 ‘Arabia: - Hodeidah Consulate. Expenditure etc. Jeddah Consulate. Expenditure'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject ‘Hodeidah and Jeddah Consulates’. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/86/1) concerns the expenditure of the Hodeidah Consulate. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/86/2) concerns the expenditure of the Jeddah Consulate. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1900-1913
Extent:
1 volume (275 folios)

892. IOR/L/PS/10/87

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/87
Title:
File 3131/1905 'Mesopotamia:- Irrigation.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, a memorandum, notes and reports on a scheme devised by Sir William Willcocks for irrigation in Mesopotamia. It also includes a number of reports about the effect of the Baghdad railway both on relations with Persia and on the defence of India. I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1910
Extent:
1 volume (214 folios)

893. IOR/L/PS/10/88

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 1-2 ‘Mesopotamia’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing steamship contracts and concessions on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Mesopotamia (also referred to as Irak [Iraq]): part 1 concerns negotiations between India Office officials and representatives of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1911
Extent:
1 volume, 2 parts (389 folios)

894. IOR/L/PS/10/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/89
Title:
File 379/1906 'Railways: Aden; railway construction in Aden hinterland; Aden-Lahej Railway'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and notes, relating to proposals for the construction of a steam railway between Aden and its hinterland from 1904. The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1904-3 Apr 1922
Extent:
1 volume (150 folios)

895. IOR/L/PS/10/91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/91
Title:
File 952/1906 'Persian Gulf: murder of Bahrainese near Katif'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the murder of a relative of the Shaikh of Bahrain by the al-Murrah tribe near Katif. Correspondence discussed how it was necessary to persuade the Government of Turkey to take action given the jurisdiction of the Sublime Porte on the coast of Arabia. In similar vein the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1901-1906
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

896. 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)

897. IOR/L/PS/10/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/101
Title:
File 2869/1906 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic: Mekran Coast and Baluchistan. (correspondence 1906-7)'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officers, reporting on the arms traffic along the Mekran coast and Baluchistan. Their correspondence contains numerous reports, such as that discussing the illicit traffic of arms. Correspondents include Sir Harold Arthur D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1907
Extent:
1 volume (284 folios)

898. IOR/L/PS/10/102

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/102
Title:
File 2869/1906 Pt 2 'Arms traffic: Mekran Coast and Baluchistan. Correspondence (1908-9)'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the arms traffic on the Mekran coast and Baluchistan. The volume includes reports on the importation of arms from Muscat and measures taken by the British to curtail the trade. The reports were authored by the Senior Naval Officer, Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908-1909
Extent:
1 volume (286 folios)

899. IOR/L/PS/10/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/104
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 1 'Persia: telegraphs; Seistan telegraph lines; Meshed-Seistan; Meshed-Tehran; Robat-Seistan; Nasratabad-Koh i Malik Siah; proposed exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the construction of telegraph lines in Persia. Issues discussed include the implications for Britain's relations with the Persian government and how influence could be achieved. Also discussed is the British strategy for negotiating with the Russians who held a sphere of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1916
Extent:
1 volume (422 folios)

900. IOR/L/PS/10/105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/105
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 2 'Persia: telegraphs; exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the Anglo-Persian convention specifically as it related to telegraph lines in the Russian (northern) and British (southern) zones of influence: the transfer of the control of telegraph lines betwen Russia and Britain with reference to the zones of infl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1908
Extent:
1 volume (382 folios)

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