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1. IOR/L/MIL/5/794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/794
Title:
Policy etc. following Genl. Smuts recommendations: Egypt and Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding military policy and strategy in Egypt and Mesopotamia [Iraq] during the First World War in response to recommendations made by General Jan Christiaan Smuts, Defence Minister of South Africa and a member of the Imperial War Cabinet. Topics covered in t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1918-28 Mar 1918
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/62

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/62
Title:
Letters to Robert Abbott from Luigi Malagamba and Nicholas Ducci
Scope & Content:
Copies of two letters addressed to Robert Abbott, East India Company Agent in Aleppo, containing news of the French campaign in Palestine led by General Napoleon Bonaparte: 1. An Italian letter from Luigi Malagamba, sent from Acri [Acre] and dated 12 March 1799. The letter describes difficultie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
12 Mar 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/76/64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/64
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 26 April 1799. Jones reports that he has sent a messenger to Syria to obtain information on the French campaign led by General Napoleon Bonaparte. The letter a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/73

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/73
Title:
Letters from Nicholas Ducci and Giovanni Lazzari to Louisa Abbott
Scope & Content:
Copies of letters received by Louisa Abbott, widow of Robert Abbott, late East India Company Agent in Aleppo, concerning the French invasion of Palestine led by General Napoleon Bonaparte: 1. A letter from Nicholas Ducci, Agent, sent from Latachia [Latakia] and dated 21 April 1799. The letter r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
21 Apr 1799-6 May 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/557/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/557/2
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
Scope & Content:
The item comprises correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration in territories that were part of the Ottoman Empire prior to the First World War. The item includes: reports on exploratory drilling being undertaken by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) at Naft Khana [Nafţ Khānah],...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1919-20 May 1924
Extent:

1 item (242 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/658

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/658
Title:
File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of individual copies of the Arab Bulletin produced by the Arab Bureau at the Savoy Hotel, Cairo numbers 66-114. These publications contain wartime, and post-war intelligence obtained by British sources. They deal with economic, military, and political matters in Turkey, the M...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1917-1920
Extent:
1 volume (411 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/911

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/911
Title:
File 4917/1920 'MESOPOTAMIA: MANDATE [AND PALESTINE]'
Scope & Content:
The volume includes correspondence in the form of telegrams, letters, minutes, draft mandates and conventions. The correspondence is mainly about the British Mandate for Palestine and Mesopotamia, and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon. British and French officials exchanged draft copies o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Jun 1920-31 Dec 1924
Extent:

1 volume (377 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1017

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1017
Title:
File 5122/1921 'PERSIA:- ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA IN THE PERSIAN PRESS.'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains minutes, letters, memoranda, and reports relating to articles, pamphlets, and newspapers identified as promoting anti-British propaganda by officials and diplomatic representatives of HM Government in Qajar Persia [Qājār Iran]. The papers notably cover the following subjects:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Aug 1921-26 Nov 1923
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/245
Title:
PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mainly relating to the private visit of Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his three private conversations with King Ibn Saud. It includes correspondence between John Charles Walton, India Office, and Dickson...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1937-26 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/917

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/917
Title:
Ext 2033/44 'Shaikh Salman of Bahrain: judicial training in Palestine'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding arrangements for the Civil and Criminal case judicial training of Sheikh Salman Bin Muhamed (the fifth son of senior uncle of the Ruler of Bahrain) in Palestine, resulting from a lack of court judges with judicial training in Bahrain. The file also inclu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 May 1944-16 Jun 1944
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)