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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Public finance Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. IOR/L/PS/10/353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/353
Title:
File 747/1913 Pt 1 ‘Loans to Persia’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, minutes and other papers relating to the advance of loans to Persia. Two different loans are discussed: a loan of £100,000, made by the British Government in May 1913 to the Governor-General of Fars (half of which was to be payable by the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Apr 1903-5 Feb 1914
Extent:

1 volume (236 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/626

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/626
Title:
File 3839/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: - Incidence of expenditure in - question of revising the agreement of 1900'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers mostly relating to expenditure incurred in Persia, and the issue of how this expenditure should be divided between the Imperial and Indian Exchequers. The papers mainly consist of correspondence between the India Office and the following: the Foreign Office, the Fore...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1914-4 Jun 1928
Extent:

1 volume (430 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1035

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1035
Title:
File 464/1922 Pt 1-2 'PERSIA: FINANCIAL SITUATION. ANGLO-AMERICAN NEGOTIATIONS.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the employment of financial advisors from the United States by the Government of Persia [Iran], and negotiations between HM Government and the United States Government over oil concessions in Persia. It comprises official correspondence, dated 8 July 1918 to 22 December 192...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Jul 1918-22 Dec 1925
Extent:
1 volume (524 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1036

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1036
Title:
File 464/1922 Pt 3 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Quarterly Reports of the American Advisers.'
Scope & Content:
This volume relates to the financial situation in Qajar [Qājār] Persia [Iran]. It includes quarterly reports prepared by financial advisers from the United States of America under the supervision of the Persian Minister of Finance. These were submitted to the Political Department, India Office, b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:
23 Dec 1923-5 Dec 1925
Extent:
1 volume (649 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1037

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1037
Title:
File 464/1922 Pt 4 'PERSIA:- AMERICAN FINANCIAL MISSION'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to the Financial Mission of the United States to Qajar Persia [Iran] and a scheme to create an agricultural bank. The bulk of the correspondence documents the financial crisis within Persia and the impact on its neighbours in British Iraq and India, their comm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
25 May 1926-23 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 volume (437 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1044

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1044
Title:
File 522/1922 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Bahrain: Financial Adviser: Budget'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minute papers, and memoranda relating to the finances of the Bahrain state. The papers cover a number of matters, including the appointment and retention of Sir Charles Dalrymple Belgrave as Financial Adviser in Bahrain, annual budgets and reports, and the economic situation in th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1924-11 Sep 1931
Extent:

1 volume (187 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/128
Title:
PZ 704/1935 Arabia: Request for Financial Assistance for the ex-Amir of Mecca
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office, and enclosed copies of Foreign Office correspondence, relating to the former Amir [Emir] of Mecca, Sherif Ali Haider. It includes a letter from Kenneth Johnstone, Foreign Office, to John Gilbert Laithwa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1935-25 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2887

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2887
Title:
Coll 17/25 'Iraq. Internal. Miscellaneous (including finance)'
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of papers relating to Iraq, mostly copies sent to the India Office of letters and telegrams from the British Embassy at Baghdad (Sir Francis Humphrys, George Ogilvie-Forbes, Archibald Clark Kerr, Oswald Scott, Maurice Peterson, Sir Hugh Stonehewer-Bird, Sir Basil Newton,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1934-7 Jul 1947
Extent:
1 file (134 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2951

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2951
Title:
Coll 20/1 'Muscat: Financial Situation: Budget Estimates, etc.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to Muscat state finances. The correspondence is between the Political Agent and Consul, Muscat, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Government of India (External Affairs and Foreign and Political Departments), the India Office, and the Sultan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1928-8 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (364 folios)

10. Mss Eur F111/69B

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/69B
Title:
Foreign Office Papers: Persia
Scope & Content:
This item comprises printed Foreign Office correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], covering geopolitical, political, economic, social and cultural matters. The despatches are dated 7 July 1897-22 September 1898. The first page of each despatch includes the heading ‘ASIA. CONFIDENTIAL.’ on the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jul 1897-22 Sep 1898
Extent:
1 volume (215 folios)