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1. IOR/L/PS/10/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/26
Title:
File 733/1904 Pt 2 'Muscat Arbitration. (1906-09).'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, correspondence, notes, reports, and memoranda regarding the question of the settlement of the French flag dispute between the British and French governments following the award of the arbitration tribunal at The Hague on the question of the grant of the French fla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 May 1904-16 Apr 1909
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/27
Title:
File 733/1904 Pts 3, 4, 5, and 6 'MUSCAT. COMMERCIAL TREATY. STATUS OF MUSCATIS. HOSPITAL.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises four parts discussing affairs in Muscat which are indirectly related to the Muscat Arbitration discussed in parts 1 and 2: part 3 discusses a possible revision of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Muscat, originally signed in 1892; p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1914
Extent:

1 volume (352 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/28
Title:
File 791/1904 Pt 1-3 'Orders-in-Council'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises three parts discussing Orders in Council: part 1 contains the Persian Coast and Islands Order in Council 1905 and 1907, with amendments and related correspondence between India Office officials; part 2 concerns the revised Rules of Court to cover the Table of Fees proposed u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1901-14 May 1912
Extent:

1 volume, (311 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/38
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Henjam affairs. Status of Henjam (Persian sovereignty). Persian Customs post. Henjam Telegraph Station dispute’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, papers and maps relating to the British Government’s telegraph station and the Persian Government’s customs house on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], questions of Persian sovereignty over the island, and the status of the island’s Arab inhabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1906
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/39
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:

1 volume (235 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41
Title:
File 1552/1904 Pt 2-3 Mohammerah
Scope & Content:
This file contains parts two and three of the subject Mohammerah 1552: Part two contains papers related to the operations of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company on the Karun River: folios 127-274. Part three contains papers related to proposed irrigation schemes in the Karun River ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1915
Extent:

3 volumes (293 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/47
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 1-2 'Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/1) concerns the installation (and temporary withdrawal) of a Political Agent at Kuwait. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/2) concerns proposals for, and the eventual establishment of, a Post Office in Kuwait. Each...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1899-1915
Extent:
1 volume (298 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/48
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 3-4 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/48/1) concerns the grant of a lease in October 1907 by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. Par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1901-1918
Extent:
1 volume (270 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/49
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 5 'Koweit: Coal depot.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains part 5 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox, later Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the Command...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1905-7 Feb 1917
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 6-8 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 6, 7, and 8 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]: Part 6 (IOR/L/PS/10/50/1) concerns the status of citizens of Kuwait in Persia. Part 7 (IOR/L/PS/10/50/2) concerns the proposal that vessels from Kuwait should adopt a distinctive flag, and the likely reaction this would brin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1904-1908
Extent:
1 volume (324 folios)