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31. IOR/L/PS/12/4157

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4157
Title:
Coll 35/48(1) 'Persian Gulf: opening of telegraph office in Qatar'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns discussions on the proposed opening of a telegraph office in Qatar. The file contains correspondence between: the Government of India; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Commonwealth Communications Council; the India Office; and Cable and Wireless Limited.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 May 1946-6 Nov 1946
Extent:
1 file (29 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/12/4339

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4339
Title:
Coll 37/105 'Travellers. Muscat: entomological and botanical expedition. Dr H. Scott and Mr E. B. Britton.'
Scope & Content:
The papers in the file relate to the topic of travellers in the Arabian Peninsula. Although the file's title specifies travellers to Muscat (Dr Hugh Scott and Mr Everard Baldwin Britton) the file only has one folio (folio 3) relating to these two individuals who were undertaking an entomological...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1937-3 Nov 1941
Extent:
1 file (104 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/18/B19/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B19/1
Title:
Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part I)
Scope & Content:
A memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 1 September 1879. The document is a summary of correspondence, government reports, and published literature relating to the Turkish expedition into El Hassa [Al Has...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Sep 1879
Extent:

1 file (14 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/18/B19/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B19/2
Title:
Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part II)
Scope & Content:
A memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 1 September 1879. The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part I)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/1) and broadly addresses...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 Sep 1879
Extent:

1 file (21 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/18/B19/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B19/3
Title:
Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part III)
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum written and compiled by Adolphus Warburton Moore for the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 2 December 1881. The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part II)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/2) and broadly...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Dec 1881
Extent:

1 file (15 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/18/B19/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B19/4
Title:
Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part IV)
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum written and compiled by Adolphus Warburton Moore for the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 12 February 1884. The document is a continuation of 'Persian Gulf - Turkish jurisdiction along the Arabian coast (Part III)' (IOR/L/PS/18/B19/4), dealing ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Feb 1884
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/18/B215

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B215
Title:
Sherif of Mecca.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a confidential printed report entitled 'Sherif of Mecca'. The report contains transcriptions of correspondence, a statement by a messenger (described below), and notes relating to Sherif Hosayn, the Sherif [Shereef] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī], particularly in terms of his re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/18/B429

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B429
Title:
Text of Treaty, dated November 3, 1916, and ratified on March 23, 1918, between His Majesty's Government and Sheikh Abdullah-bin-Jasim-bin-Thani of al-Katar
Scope & Content:
This memorandum, printed by the India Office, is a copy of the English text of the 3 November 1913 treaty between Sheikh Abdullah-bin-Jasim-bin-Thani [Sheikh ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], ruler of al-Katar [Qatar], and His Majesty's Government, ratified on 23 March 1918. The preamble to the tre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1933
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/18/B430

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B430
Title:
The Southern Boundary of Qatar and the Connected Problems
Scope & Content:
A report concerning the demarcation of Qatar's southern boundary written by India Office representative, John Gilbert Laithwaite. The report (folios 1-4) is divided up into the following short sections: The Boundary on the South-East; The Boundary on the South-West; The Position Prior to the Ang...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934
Extent:

1 volume (5 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/18/B444

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B444
Title:
‘Qatar Oil Concession and connected Documents [Oil concession granted by the Shaikh of Qatar to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 17 May 1935]’
Scope & Content:
The memorandum contains a printed copy (folios 2-4) of the oil concession agreed between the Shaikh of Qatar, Abdullah bin Qasim al Thani [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], and Charles C Mylles, Representative of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), on 17 May 1935. Following the concession agreemen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1936-5 Feb 1937
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)