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111. IOR/L/PS/10/414

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/414
Title:
File 4030/1913 Pt 1-2 'Baghdad Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises two parts that contain correspondence that relates to the same topic, namely a concession that was granted to the shipping magnate, Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), by the Ottoman Empire for the formation of a company to facilitate the transportation of goods on the Tigri...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Sep 1913-21 Jul 1914
Extent:

1 volume (237 folios)

112. IOR/L/PS/10/430

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/430
Title:
File 4880/1913 Pt 1-2 'Turco-Persian Frontier Commission'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and maps concerning the Turco-Persian Frontier Commission of 1913. Part 1 concerns arrangements for an Anglo-Russian loan to the Persian Commission, to provide for the cost of erecting boundary pillars. Part 2 concerns negotiations over and arrangements for the Turco-Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1915
Extent:

1 volume (314 folios)

113. IOR/L/PS/18/B98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B98
Title:
Memorandum on the proposed Turkish telegraph line from Taiz [Ta‘izz] to Aden.
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, 8 January 1878, with later amendments up to 12 April 1882, regarding the proposal for a Turkish telegraph line from Taiz [Ta‘izz] to Aden. The memorandum discusses British policy towards the tribes surrounding Aden, and attempts by Turkish offici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Apr 1882
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

114. IOR/L/PS/18/B151

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B151
Title:
British interests on the coast of Arabia, Koweit, Bahrein and El Katr
Scope & Content:
Richmond Thackeray Willoughby Ritchie, British Interests on the Coast of Arabia, Koweit, Bahrein, and El Katr (Government of India, 1905). This document consists of an analysis of British interests on the coast of Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. It was written by Richmond Thackeray Willough...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jan 1905
Extent:
2 folios

115. 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)

116. IOR/L/PS/18/B319

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B319
Title:
Mesopotamia: customs tariff
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter from Louis Mallet, British Ambassador at Constantinople, to Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary for the Political Department of the India Office, dated 15 April 1919. It also contains a memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, the Civil Commissioner i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15-16 Apr 1919
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

117. 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)

118. IOR/R/15/1/110

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/110
Title:
‘Book 153 1847’ Vol 153 Letters inward
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters received by Major Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire between January and November 1847, mainly from the following British officials: Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil, British Envoy at the Court of the Shah of Persia, Tehran; Henry Wel...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
7 Jan 1847-8 Nov 1847
Extent:
1 file (95 folios)

119. IOR/R/15/1/159

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/159
Title:
Persian Expeditionary Force
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to British forces sent to Bushire during the Anglo-Persian War of 1856-57. The correspondents include: Major-General Foster Stalker (later James Outram), Commander of British Forces in Persia; Henry Lacon Anderson, Secretary to Government at Bombay; Ch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
4 Oct 1856-24 Jul 1857
Extent:
1 volume (226 folios)

120. IOR/R/15/1/190

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/190
Title:
34 File 666 Threatened invasion of Oman by Ibn Rashid
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the perceived threat of attack on Oman by Ibn Rashid [Muḥammad bin ‘Abdullah Āl Rashīd]. The principal correspondents are: Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Bushire; Abul Kasim [Ḥajj Abu'l-Qāsim], Residency Agent at Sha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Jun 1888-15 Nov 1889
Extent:
1 volume (244 folios)