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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Boundary disputes Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/L/PS/10/266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/266
Title:
File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the disputed Turco-Persian Frontier, particularly at Mohammerah, and the negotiations in Constantinople to attempt to settle it. The correspondence focuses on: the differences of opinion over the actual boundary at Mohammerah, including several maps demonstrating these diff...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1912-25 Sep 1912
Extent:
1 volume (436 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/267

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/267
Title:
File 1356/1912 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople. (Mohammerah Boundary)'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the ongoing negotiations in Constantinople between the Ottoman, British and Russian Governments through 1912 and 1913 regarding the Turco-Persian Frontier. Also discussed is the decision in July 1913 to establish a delimitation commission to which Albert Charles Wratislaw an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Aug 1912-4 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (334 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/390

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/390
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 9-10 'PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIA NEJD-HEJAZ AFFAIRS 1919'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains parts 9 and 10 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It relates to the dispute between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussein of Hedjaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and Britain's policy towards both. It includes correspondenc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Dec 1918-13 Jan 1920
Extent:

1 volume (534 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/391

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/391
Title:
File 2182/1913 Pt 11-12 'PERSIAN GULF AND ARABIA NEJD-HEJAZ AFFAIRS 1920'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains parts 11 and 12 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. The volume concerns relations between Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also referred to in the correspondence as Ibn Saud] and King Hussein of Hejaz [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī, King of Hejaz], and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1920-21 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 volume (562 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/2068

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2068
Title:
Coll 6/7(1) 'The Yemen: Relations between H.M.G. and the Imam.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the British Government and Imam Yehia bin Muhammad Hamid Uddin [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn, Imam of Yemen]. It largely consists of correspondence between the Political Resident at Aden (Sir George Stewart Symes, succeeded by Bernard Rawdon Reilly) and offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jan 1906-16 Jun 1932
Extent:
1 volume (387 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B156
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Aden Frontier Delimitation
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum giving an account of the Aden frontier delimitation, and treaty relations with the Aden tribes from 1873. Compiled by the Foreign Office, 11 December 1905. It discusses the following: tribes with whom Her Majesty's Government has direct relations; boundary disp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Mar 1906
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B380

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B380
Title:
‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns the border between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Turkey, and was prepared by Alwyn Parker of the Foreign Office. There are a number of labels at the top of the first page: ‘Persia’, ‘Confidential’ and ‘Section 10’. The memorandum sections are as follows: Part I. A preface...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Apr 1912
Extent:

1 file (41 folios, 5 maps)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C28
Title:
Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is divided into the following chapter headings: 'General Status of Persia', ff 2r-12; 'Persia and Herat', ff 12v-24r; 'Persia and Seistan [Sīstān]', ff 24r-31v; 'Persia and Kohuk', ff 31v-35; 'Persia and the Navigation of the Karun [Kārūn] River', ff 35v-39r; 'Persia and her integ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1879
Extent:
1 file (78 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C83

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C83
Title:
Memorandum on the Special Mission to Seistan and Mekran.
Scope & Content:
The memorandum provides a brief overview of correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office, on the subject of the boundary commissions for Seistan and Mekran [Makran] in 1872; headed by Frederic John Goldsmid. It is noted that the Foreign Office's refusal to pay a share of the co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1874
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C215
Title:
'No. 1. Memorandum: Relations between Persia and Iraq'
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is concerned with a recent deterioration in diplomatic relations between Iraq and Persia; particular focus is given to the following issues: Persia's refusal to officially recognise Iraq; Persia's desire for judicial privileges for its subjects within Iraq; border disputes between...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1928
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)