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1. IOR/L/PS/10/663/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/663/1
Title:
File 815/1917 Pt 11 ‘Persian Gulf:- Lighting & Buoying Service. Iraq law for the levy of light dues.’
Scope & Content:
This part contains papers relating to the future administration of the lighting and buoying service in the Persian Gulf, hitherto carried out by the Royal Indian Marine. The papers specifically discuss the Government of Iraq arranging for the collection of dues from ships entering or leaving Ira...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1923-28 Jul 1927
Extent:

1 item (98 folios)

2. 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)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/1144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1144
Title:
File 1166/1925 'Arabia: Nejd; negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Iraq-Nejd question and Trans-Jordan boundary; Sir G Clayton's mission; Bahra agreement, 2nd November, 1925'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams, a memorandum and minutes between Sultan of Nejd Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the British Representative regarding the negotiations of the Transjordan boundary after the First World War. Related matter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Apr 1925-28 Jul 1927
Extent:
1 volume (378 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/1247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1247
Title:
File 57/1928 Pt 16 'Iraq-Nejd Frontier: Bon Voisinage agreement between Iraq & Nejd'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations over the signing of a friendship and bon voisinage [border co-operation] agreement between the Kingdom of Iraq, and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (usually referred to separately as Hejaz or Nejd), following the suppression by the Hejaz Government of the Akhwan [I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Jan 1930-1 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (926 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/43
Title:
PZ 6689/31 'Iraq: Persian government's attitude towards Turko-Persian frontier settlement 1914'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, letters with enclosures, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the examination of the Persian Government's attitude towards the Turko-Persian frontier settlement of 1914. The discussion in the correspondence is in response to a letter from an official of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Oct 1931-29 Oct 1931
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/127
Title:
PZ 701/1935 Question of Continuance of Pension of Naoum Abbo of Basra
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the issue of whether a pension paid from 1918 to 1923 to Mr Naoum Abbo of Basra, an Iraqi national, should be continued. The correspondence includes: Letters and copies of letters between the India Office and Mackrell, Ward and Knight, including a co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1935-6 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/255

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/255
Title:
PZ 5191/38 'Iraq Petroleum Co's. oil agreement with Iraqi Govt'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and official agreements relating to the Iraq Petroleum Company's oil conventions with the Iraq Government. Correspondents include the HM Representative, Baghdad, and the British Embassy in Baghdad. Also includes: the convention published in the official Iraq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1938-17 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/370

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/370
Title:
PZ 2186/40 'Iraq: government's desire for copies of certain treaties and agreements with Arab rulers not in Aitchison's Treaties'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the Iraqi Government's desire for copies of certain treaties and agreements, made between HM Government and Arab rulers, which do not appear in Charles Umpherston Aitchison's Treaties. Folios 9-12 provide a list of treaties relating to Arab principal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1940-26 Jul 1940
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2860

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2860
Title:
Coll 17/10(1) 'Internal: political situation; relations with HMG'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and memoranda regarding relations between HM Government (HMG) and Iraq following independence, and private arrangements for the supply of information to HM Ambassador in Baghdad from British advisers to the Iraqi Government. The records also document the reacti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1932-14 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 volume (487 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2861

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2861
Title:
Coll 17/10(2) 'Internal: political situation; relations with HMG'
Scope & Content:
This file is a continuation of IOR/L/PS/12/2860. It contains correspondence and memoranda regarding relations between HM Government (HMG) and Iraq, and documents the reaction of the India Office and Foreign Office to political developments within Iraq. The papers primarily consist of despatches ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1937-24 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (470 folios)