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11. IOR/L/PS/10/416

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/416
Title:
File 4045/1913 Pt 1-2 'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes and memoranda regarding the Société Internationale d'Études du Chemin de Fer Transpersan's proposed bid for an option to construct a railway in Persia. Parts one and two of three. Topics covered: the proposed application by the Société Internationale d'Études for the opt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1916
Extent:
1 volume (251 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/417

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/417
Title:
File 4045/1913 'Pt 3 Railways: Trans-Persian Railway; Russian concession; Bandar Abbas-Kerman Railway; Kerman mining concession'
Scope & Content:
Continuation of correspondence and memoranda regarding the proposed construction of railways in Persia, and additional bids for mining concessions. The correspondents are the India Office Political Department, the Foreign Office, HM Minister at Teheran [Charles Murray Marling], Marquess Curzon,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1932
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/456
Title:
File 2830/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Sponge Fisheries. Sponge Exploration Syndicate.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the attempts of a British company called the Sponge Exploration Syndicate to obtain concessions for the fishing and exploitation of sponges in the Persian Gulf. However, the papers indicate that it was felt by British officials that the real object of the company was to explo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 May 1905-11 Dec 1916
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/10/669

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/669
Title:
File 1250/1917 ‘Turkey:– The Ottoman Public Debt. Salif Salt Quarries.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to rock salt extraction at Salif [As Salif] in Yemen. The correspondence chiefly concerns various efforts on the part of British interests to agree a concession for the extraction of rock salt at Salif, a concession operated prior to the First World War b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1917-9 Jul 1929
Extent:

1 volume (223 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/10/794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/794
Title:
File 357/1919 Pt 2 ‘RAILWAYS IN PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to the construction of the Trans-Persian Railway. It contains material relating to: The Persian Railway Syndicate’s attempt to enlist the aid of Rabbi Joseph Saul Kornfeld, the United States Envoy to Persia [Iran], and the British Foreign Office’s subsequent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1921-28 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (573 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/10/989

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/989
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 1-2 'OIL: PERSIAN GULF AND ARAB LITTORAL'
Scope & Content:
The volume is composed of two parts, IOR/L/PS/10/989/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/989/2. IOR/L/PS/10/989/1 is formed of telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf. IOR/L/PS/10/989/2 is concerned with the travels of two...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921-1925
Extent:
1 volume (361 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/10/990

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/990
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the development of oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf. The discussion in the volume relates to: The activities of Major Frank Holmes Draft agreements for an oil concession with th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1931
Extent:
1 volume (395 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/10/991

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/991
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: The 'nationality clause' whereby any concession granted had to be to a British concern Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jul 1931-30 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 volume (457 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/10/992

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/992
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3B 'Persian Gulf: oil; Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: A proposed visit by the Shaikh of Kuwait to the Anglo-Persian oilfields (ff 488-492) A report (ff ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1933
Extent:
1 volume (492 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/10/993

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/993
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: oil: Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of an oil concession in Bahrain. The discussion in the volume relates to: The form of wording to be used in an agreement with the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1930
Extent:
1 volume (709 folios)