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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/10 Place Iraq, Middle East, Asia

21. IOR/L/PS/10/897C

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/897C
Title:
File 4330/1920 Revenue Secretariat Baghdad ‘Monthly Reports of Political Officers of the Occupied Territories. March 1920’
Scope & Content:
The volume mostly consists of monthly reports (also titled political diaries) by political officers in the territories of Iraq under British occupation, for the month of March 1920, forwarded by the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, to the Under-Secretary of State for India. It includes: Reports fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1920-2 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (119 folios)

22. IOR/L/PS/10/919

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/919
Title:
File 5876/1920 ‘Mesopotamia:- King for. Question of suitability of Feisul; French protest against Feisul; Feisul proclaimed “King of Iraq”; Treaty with Feisul’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence regarding the election of Sherif Feisal [Fayṣal al-Awwal bin al-Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, also written as Faisal and other variations in the volume] as King of Iraq, and negotiations leading to the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty of 1922. Specific topics discussed include:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
31 Jul 1920-1 Jan 1925
Extent:

1 volume (497 folios)

23. IOR/L/PS/10/962

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/962
Title:
File 301/1921 'MESOPOTAMIA: INTELLIGENCE REPORTS'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains the Intelligence Reports of Sir Percy Cox, High Commissioner for Mesopotamia [also written as Iraq in this volume], based in Baghdad, covering the period 15 November 1920 to 15 September 1921. They largely relate to: the political situation in Mesopotamia and the surrounding...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Nov 1920-31 Oct 1921
Extent:
1 volume (289 folios)

24. IOR/L/PS/10/974

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/974
Title:
File 1595/1921 'Arms traffic: Muscat and Persian Gulf. Monthly Returns of Shipments. (1921- '
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the monthly returns of arms shipments in Muscat and the Persian Gulf, 1921 to November 1930. Included in the volume are copies of the returns, which consist of tables with the title, for example: 'RETU...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921-1930
Extent:
1 volume (480 folios)

25. 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)

26. IOR/L/PS/10/1071

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1071
Title:
File 2325/1922 ‘Iraq: administration. ANGLO-IRAQ TREATY NEGOTIATION 1930-’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, drafts, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding different aspects of negotiation and the creation of the Anglo-Iraqi treaty. The papers notably cover: Negotiations, alterations, and presentations of the Treaty itself between Iraq and British Go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jun 1922-8 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (731 folios)

27. IOR/L/PS/10/1098

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1098
Title:
File 4480/1923 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Ownership of the Shatt-el-Arab’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to the right of navigation in the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab). It includes correspondence relating to the following: the alignment of the Perso-Iraq frontier at the mouth of the Shatt-al-Arab; the right of Persian [Iranian] vessels ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 May 1928-28 Nov 1930
Extent:

1 volume (362 folios)

28. IOR/L/PS/10/1222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1222
Title:
File 4537/1927 Pt 1-2 'Iraq: Kuwait and Mohammerah Date Gardens'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the matter of tax exemption on the date gardens in Iraq belonging to the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Shaikh of Mohammerah. The exemption was promised to the shaikhs by the British for assistance given during the First World War. The volume covers the inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1927-1933
Extent:
1 volume (1152 folios)