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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1583-1914

121. IOR/R/15/1/556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/556
Title:
Vol. D.16 (File 61/4) Bin Saood - Amir of Nejd's intention to visit Pirate Coast and Oman in 1905
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters (in English and Arabic), telegrams, handwritten notes, diary extracts, and drafts of the above concerning a rumoured visit by Ibn Sa'ud, ruler of Najd, to the Trucial Coast and Oman. The bulk of the file is correspondence between the Political Residency in Bushire, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Oct 1905-26 Dec 1907
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)

122. IOR/R/15/1/610-615

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/610-615
Title:
File 73: Routes and Railways in Persia and Arabia
Scope & Content:
These files and volumes contain correspondence, maps, newspaper cuttings, and other documents relating to the planning and building of the Baghdad Railway and its extension to Basra. Questions addressed within the files are those of ownership and control (contested between Germany, Britain, the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1911-1919
Extent:

6 files and volumes (1107 folios)

123. IOR/R/15/2/1981

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1981
Title:
‘Bahrainese abroad’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence from two distinct periods. Correspondence at the beginning and end of the file is dated 1909 to 1913 (ff 2-16, ff 52-87), and discusses the British protection of Bahrainis in Ottoman Turkey, in response to Ottoman Government representatives in Constantinople [Is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
22 Sep 1873-1 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 file (86 folios)

124. IOR/R/15/5/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/59
Title:
File XXII/1 Koweit relations with British Government
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to Kuwait relations with the British Government: The discussion in the volume relates to: appointment of the Political Agent, Kuwait; visit of HM Consul, Basra; customs and railway negotiations; the Angl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Sep 1904-6 Apr 1916
Extent:
1 volume (189 folios)

125. IOR/R/15/5/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/61
Title:
File XXII/5 Distinctive Flag for Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises hand written letters, notes, typed correspondence and printed reports relating to the proposed adoption of a distinctive Kuwait flag and certificates of nationality for marine craft belonging to Shaikh Mobarak [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ] or his subjects. Further disc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1906-24 Nov 1924
Extent:
1 volume (57 folios)

126. Mss Eur F111/65

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/65
Title:
Correspondence and Newspaper Cuttings about Persia and the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This file consists mainly of correspondence received by George Nathaniel Curzon, mostly on matters relating to Persia. The letters are mainly from friends, acquaintances and other correspondents known to Curzon, including a number of army officers, diplomats, writers and travellers with an inte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1898-10 Sep 1898
Extent:

1 file (94 folios)

127. Mss Eur F111/68

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/68
Title:
'MISCELLANEOUS. PERSIA 1882-1898: Maps, Government Papers etc.'
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of a range of material compiled by George Nathaniel Curzon, mainly concerning matters relating to Persia but also relating to other areas in south Asia. It includes the following: Three copies of an official memorandum by Curzon (writing as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Dutch and English
Date Range:
1889-1923
Extent:

1 file (99 folios)

128. Mss Eur F231/28, ff 46-49

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/28, ff 46-49
Title:
‘Letters from Persia received July 29.1856’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from HM Consul at Tehran, Richard W Stevens (7, 16, 20 and 22 June 1856, Numbers 7, 33 and 36-39). It also contains a summary of a despatch from Stratford Canning, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire (15 June ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1856
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

129. Mss Eur F231/28, ff 56-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F231/28, ff 56-59
Title:
‘Letters from Mr Murray received Aug:4.1856’
Scope & Content:
This bundle consists of summaries, and partial transcripts, of secret letters received from HM Minister to Persia, Charles Augustus Murray, residing at Baghdad (20 and 26 June 1856, Numbers 57 and 59-60). The subject matter consists of the advance of the Persian Army against Herat, the policy o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Aug 1856
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)