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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Euphrates River, Asia

1. IOR/L/PS/10/88

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 1-2 ‘Mesopotamia’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing steamship contracts and concessions on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Mesopotamia (also referred to as Irak [Iraq]): part 1 concerns negotiations between India Office officials and representatives of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1911
Extent:
1 volume, 2 parts (389 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B78
Title:
Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates by British Merchant-Vessels
Scope & Content:
This file contains a selection of correspondence related to the right of British Merchant-Vessels to use the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. This correspondence is primarily between British officials but also includes copies of letters between Ottoman officials including one letter in French (ff 11...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 May 1881
Extent:

1 volume (5 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 16-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/388, ff 16-27
Title:
Euphrates Expedition
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 89 of 1840, dated 30 October 1840. The enclosure consists of a memorandum by John Pollard Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Oct 1840
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/426, ff 84-144

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/426, ff 84-144
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 91 of 1843, dated 26 December 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-29 and are dated 2 March-26 December 1843. On folio 85 a note in black ink, sta...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Dec 1843
Extent:

1 item (61 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 109-112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/375, ff 109-112
Title:
'Notes on Memo. Submitted on Iron Steam Vessels'.
Scope & Content:
Copy of a memorandum regarding the unsuitability of iron steam vessels for use on the Euphrates and Indus rivers. (With a note in pencil, by unknown author, criticizing the tone of the memorandum and asking for another opinion).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c May 1839
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/410, ff 4-119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/410, ff 4-119
Title:
Papers relating to the Euphrates Flotilla
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 80 of 1842, dated 14 July 1842. The enclosed papers, dated between May 1841 and July 1842, comprise minutes, correspondence and reports, and r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jul 1842
Extent:
1 item (116 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B75
Title:
Memorandum as to the Right of British Ships of War to go up the Tigris and Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum regarding the rights of British Ships of War to sail on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet. The file contains a simplified map of the Tigris, the Euphrates, the Shatt el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] and the nort...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1883
Extent:

1 volume (4 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B76
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Claim of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to use Barges on those Rivers as a matter of "right"
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum regarding the right of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to sail their barges on those rivers, written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet. The file contains a summary of negotiations between the British and Ottoman Governments and as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 May 1881
Extent:

1 volume (8 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/5/412, ff 434-476

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/412, ff 434-476
Title:
Proceedings of the Government of Bombay connected with the Flotilla on the River Euphrates
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee No. 105 of 1842, dated 29 September 1842. The despatch contains material relating to the arrangements for the transportation of three ‘iron steam vessels’, attached to the Euphra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1842
Extent:
1 item (43 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/5/400, ff 1-24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/400, ff 1-24
Title:
‘The Euphrates Steam Flotilla’
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-14 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 29 November 1841. The enclosures are dated 13 August-29 November 1841. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to continuing surveys by steam boat of the River Euphrates to deter...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1841
Extent:
1 item (24 folios)