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1. IOR/L/PS/18/B153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B153
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Bagdad Railway
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum concerning the Baghdad railway written by Alwyn Parker,who had negotiated with both the German Government and the Ottoman Empire on this issue and was considered the Foreign Office's specialist on the topic. The memorandum is divided up as follows: 1. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jun 1906
Extent:

1 volume (25 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B160
Title:
‘Baghdad Railway.’
Scope & Content:
Printed confidential memorandum (B 160), written by Major Lindsay Sherwood Newmarch, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia, dated 18 December 1906. The memorandum addresses the associated risks and benefits to be incurred and gained from not being involved in the construction of the Baghdad railw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1906
Extent:

4 folios

3. IOR/L/PS/18/B165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B165
Title:
Report (with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as Termini of proposed Bagdad Railway, by Captain E W S Mahon, RE July 1905
Scope & Content:
The report, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled by Captain Edward Willoughby Sandys Mahon, Royal Engineer on 24 July 1905 to identify places suitable as termini of the Baghdad Railway. He advises Bussorah [Basra] as the best place, for strategic and commercial reasons. The r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1905
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B166a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B166a
Title:
Collection of papers respecting the attitude of His Majesty's Government in regard to the Bagdad Railway and the Purchase of Land at Koweit (amended version)
Scope & Content:
The document, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, is a collection of letters and dispatches from 3 March 1904 to 16 September 1907, between the India Office and the Government of India on the purchase of land in Kuwait for the Baghdad Railway.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1907
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B188

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B188
Title:
Bagdad [Baghdad] - Basra Railway
Scope & Content:
This file is a report written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel of the Political Department of the India Office, regarding the Bagdad [Baghdad]-Basra railway scheme. The report asseses the political and commerical implications of the contruction of the Gulf section of the railway scheme and wheth...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1912
Extent:

1 volume (5 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B197
Title:
Bagdad Railway and Persian Gulf. The Negotiations with Hakki Pasha [Ibrahim Hakki Pasha]
Scope & Content:
A report concerning a series of meetings held at the Foreign Office in April/May 1913 between Ottoman diplomat Hakki Pasha [Ibrahim Hakki Pasha] and two British officials, Sir Louis du Pan Mallet and Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel. The negotiations concerned the construction of the Gulf section o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 May 1913
Extent:

1 volume (2 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B213

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B213
Title:
‘Notes and private telegram from the Viceroy regarding the future settlement of Eastern Turkey in Asia and Arabia.’
Scope & Content:
The papers comprise as follows: A note by Sir (Frederic) Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary, Political and Secret Department, India Office, dated 14 March 1915, indicating factors to be considered in ensuring Basra’s future immunity from Turkish authority, organised under a number of subheadings: geograp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B214

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B214
Title:
‘Report of the Mesopotamian Railways Committee.’
Scope & Content:
Foreign Office report, marked Secret and dated 24 July 1909, authored by R P Maxwell, R Ritchie, George J Stanley, W Tyrrell, Percy Ashley and R C Lindsay of the Mesopotamia Railways Committee. The report concerns the options being considered by Government for the concession of the Bagdad [Baghd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1909
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B285

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B285
Title:
The Baghdad Railway Negotiations
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is a copy of an article reprinted for private circulation from the The Quarterly Review of October 1917 concerning the Baghdad Railway negotiations. The purpose of the article is to trace the development of railway interests in Turkey and seek to focus the situation in wh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1917
Extent:

16 folios, including 1 map

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B298

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B298
Title:
'Settlement of Turkey and Arabian Peninsula. Note by India Office on Foreign Office memorandum'.
Scope & Content:
The note was written by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel for the India Office, 30 Nov 1918, and consists of remarks on three points drawn out from the Foreign Office memorandum: The Trucial System - disputing the assumptions made in the original memo that Great Britain effectively kept the peace over...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1918
Extent:

2 folios