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Place Basra, Asia Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

71. IOR/R/15/5/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/127
Title:
'File 2/1 II IRAQ PROPAGANDA. (Absorption of Kuwait by Iraq). Relations etc.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, and confidential papers sent between British officials in the Gulf regarding Iraqi propaganda against Kuwait. Communications were made with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Pasha al-Said and the Ruler of Kuwait, in this regard. The cor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
20 Feb 1939-29 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 volume (154 folios)

72. IOR/R/15/5/148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/148
Title:
File 2/5 IX Shaikh’s Date Gardens.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence, and related papers, regarding a court case over the ownership of date gardens claimed by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], and his relations, around Fao in Iraq. The court case in question was prosecuted by the heirs of Ali Pasha Al-Zuhair...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1938-27 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 volume (370 folios)

73. IOR/R/15/5/156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/156
Title:
[Unnumbered file] Papers in Arabic
Scope & Content:
The file includes three land deeds of the date gardens, all dated 12 February 1909. The first two deeds are between the Shaikh of Kuwait Mubarak al-Sabah and Abdul Wahhab al-Qirtass, on behalf of certain members of al-Zuhair family in Basra Iraq. The third deed is between Shaikh Mubarak and Shafi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Feb 1909
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

74. IOR/R/15/5/160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/160
Title:
File 2/8 Kuwait water supply from Shatt al-`Arab
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the supply of water to Kuwait from the Shatt-al-Arab estuary which lies within the territory of Iraq. The papers contain incidents relating to the payment of customs duties, the customary drawing of water from populations surrounding the estuary, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1932-17 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (232)

75. Mss Eur B377

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B377
Title:
George Percy Badger papers.
Scope & Content:
Journal of Rev George Percy Badger (1815-88), chaplain and oriental scholar, at Aden 1846-62, staff chaplain and Arabic interpreter under Lt-Gen Sir James Outram in the Persian Expedition 1856-7, with additional material on his travels in Egypt.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857-1862
Extent:
1 volume

76. Mss Eur D681

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D681
Title:
Papers of Sir Evelyn Howell, Indian Civil Service 1900-34
Scope & Content:
Howell Collection: papers of Sir Evelyn Berkeley Howell (1877-1971), Indian Civil Service, Punjab and NWFP 1900-34, chiefly comprising family correspondence (1896-1904), literary papers, and some official papers including Howell's reports as Censor of Indian mails in France 1914-15, with extracts...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1896-1968
Extent:
38 items

77. Mss Eur F177

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F177
Title:
Papers of Emily Overend Lorimer, author, editor of 'Basrah Times' 1916-17, wife of Lt-Col David Lorimer, Indian Political Service 1903-27
Scope & Content:
Lorimer Collection: papers of Emily Overend Lorimer (1881-1949), author, tutor in Germanic Philology at Somerville College Oxford 1907-10, editor `Basrah Times' 1916-17, wife of Lt-Col David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (1876-1962), Indian Army 1896, Indian Political Service 1903-27, comprising let...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1902-1949
Extent:
106 items

78. Mss Eur F247

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F247
Title:
Frederick Arthur Thompson papers.
Scope & Content:
Memoirs and service papers of Rev Frederick Arthur Thompson (b 1911), Indian Ecclesiastical Establishment 1939-48, as a Chaplain during the War in different parts of India and Iraq.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-1948
Extent:
1 folder; two files

79. Mss Eur Orme

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur Orme
Title:
Robert Orme papers.
Scope & Content:
Orme Collection: papers of Robert Orme (1728-1801), East India Company servant, Bengal and Madras 1743-58, historiographer to the Company 1769-1801, chiefly collected for his `History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan from the year 1745' (London 1763, 1778).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1636-1796
Extent:
356 volumes

80. TRIG/77

Reference (shelfmark):
TRIG/77
Title:
Iraq. Various Surveys.
Scope & Content:
Comprises the following items. Compiled by Iraq-based War Office units unless stated otherwise. Survey Data and Material Used for the 1:500,000 Iraq, GSGS 3954. Reports on method and progress diagrams. Notes for guidance of future Survey Officers, and procedures. Tables for astro observations a...
Collection Area:
Map Collections
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1939
Extent:

7 folders