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1. IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 154-166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/486, ff 154-166
Title:
Aden Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, [Bombay Secret Letter] No. 12 dated 2 February 1856. The enclosures are dated 10-25 January 1856. The papers comprise three letters from Brigadier William Marcus Coghla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Feb 1856
Extent:
1 item (13 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/67/55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/55
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Admiral John Blankett, at Jedda, to Lord Duncan, Governor of Bombay
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Admiral John Blankett to Lord Duncan, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from HMS Leopard at Jedda [Jeddah] and dated 30 June 1800. The letter reports: Blankett's meeting with the Sheriffe [Sharif] of Mecca and his attempts to secure the Sheriffe's co-operation against Fran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1800
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/530

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/530
Title:
File 74/1915 Pt 3 'German War: banking arrangements at Jeddah'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers - correspondence and India Office papers and internal notes - relating to banking arrangements at Jeddah. It includes papers relating to the following: The Basra branch of the Imperial Ottoman Bank applying for permission to do business with the Bank’s Jeddah Agency. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1915-3 Jul 1919
Extent:

1 volume (175 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/648

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/648
Title:
File 287/1917 ''Arabia: Deportation of undesirable Indians''
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly India Office minute papers and correspondence, relating to the deportation from the Hejaz of certain Indians for alleged anti-British and pro-Turkish activities (as part of the silk letters movement), and their internment in Malta. The file includes corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Urdu
Date Range:
12 Dec 1916-14 Jun 1920
Extent:

1 volume (155 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/120

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/120
Title:
PZ 6888/34 History of British Representation in Jedda
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the personal enquiry of Sir Andrew Ryan, Foreign Office, to John Gilbert Laithwaite, India Office, about the history of British representation in Jedda [Jeddah]. The correspondence consists of: a letter to Laithwaite from Ryan, referring to Ryan’s prev...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1934-7 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/281
Title:
PZ 1058/1939 'Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the Standard Oil Company of California's oil concession in Bahrein [Bahrain]. The correspondence is concerned with whether or not it would be appropriate for Imperial Airways to assist the Californian company in developing aerial infrastructure in Ara...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1939-23 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (12 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/2061

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2061
Title:
Coll 6/1 'Hejaz-Nejd: Franco-Hejaz-Nejd Treaty and Relations Hejaz-Syria Treaty.'
Scope & Content:
This file primarily concerns relations between France and the Hejaz-Nejd (later Saudi Arabian) Government. The beginning of the file relates to treaty negotiations between France and Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] Hejaz-Nejd Government, as well as negotiatio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Feb 1926-16 Dec 1937
Extent:
1 file (53 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2087

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2087
Title:
Coll 6/21(1) 'Hejaz-Nejd: Relations with H.M.G.: Hejaz Legation in London and British Minister in Jeddah.'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns relations between the British Government and the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia). The volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence. The correspondence near the beginning of the volume discusses Ibn Saud's [‘Abd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1927-10 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 volume (453 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2116
Title:
Coll 6/49 'Railways and Communications: Proposed Jedda-Mecca Railway. Motor Transport Arrangements.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the progress of schemes relating to the improvement of transport and communications in Saudi Arabia. The file largely consists of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1932-17 Nov 1939
Extent:
1 file (109 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2117
Title:
Coll 6/50 'Saudi Arabia: Saudi Relations with the Soviet.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz and Nejd (Saudi Arabia from September 1932 onwards) and the Soviet Union. It largely consists of copies of correspondence received by the Foreign Office from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1932-20 Jun 1938
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)