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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, 1583-1914

1. 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)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/58
Title:
File 2764/1904 Pt 3 'Baghdad Railway: general negotiations 1910-1912.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1910-1912. The discussion in the volume relates to the economic, commercial, political and military cons...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910-1912
Extent:
1 volume (268 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/166
Title:
File 3047/1909 'Railways: Asiatic Turkey; railway construction in Asia Minor'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the construction of railways in Asiatic Turkey, 1908-1911, as well as oil concessions in Mesopotamia. Correspondence outlines the proposal to develop a railway from Tripoli via Homs and Deir [Deir ez-Z...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1908-1911
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/103

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/103
Title:
Letters from Lord Elgin to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Two letters from Lord Elgin, newly appointed HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]. The first letter, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 16 November 1799, announces Elgin’s arrival in Constantinople and assumption of his duties, offers as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1799-21 Dec 199
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/76/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/277
Title:
Letter from Alexander Stratton to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Alexander Stratton, HM Minister Plenipoteniary to the Ottoman Empire, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bonyakdere [Büyükdere] and dated 7 August 1802. The letter concerns the transit of correspondence.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Aug 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 9-10 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 9 and 10 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]: Part 9 (IOR/L/PS/10/51/1) concerns the rights of the Ruler of Kuwait to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr]. Part 10 (IOR/L/PS/10/51/2) concerns the Ruler of Kuwait's relations with the Ottoman Empire, and his ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1903-1912
Extent:

1 volume (314 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 290-303

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/450, ff 290-303
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 68 of 1847, dated 5 August 1847. The enclosures are dated 9-23 June1847 (although some internal copy documents date back to 1 June 1847). The primary d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1847
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/50/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50/2
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 7 'Koweit Flag.'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the proposal that vessels from Koweit [Kuwait] should adopt a distinctive flag, and the likely reaction this would bring from the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Major Percy Zachariah Cox)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1904-22 Mar 1907
Extent:

76 folios

9. IOR/L/PS/9/76/35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/35
Title:
Letter from Sir Robert Ainslie to John Abbott
Scope & Content:
An intelligence report sent by HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to John Abbott, Consul in Aleppo, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 8 March 1783. The report concerns the assembly of a large French force at Nice by Baron de Saint-Geniès, thought to be heading for India. Ainslie a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 March 1783
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/76/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/104
Title:
Letter from Lord Elgin to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 21 December 1799. Elgin notifies Jones that he is dispensing with the use of cyphers in his communications with India. A dupli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)