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11. IOR/L/PS/10/382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/382
Title:
File 2073/1913 ‘Baghdad Railway: Navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with negotiations with the Ottoman Government over a new navigation concession for the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. These negotiations — facilitated by the Foreign Office and the Board of Trade — are between Ibrahim Hakki Pasha and Lord Inchcape (James Lyle Mackay), and a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 May 1913-22 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (281 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/10/408

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/408
Title:
File 3615/1913 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Moin-ut-Tujjar's concessions'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the grant of mineral concessions by the Persian Government to the Persian merchant Haji Agha Mohammed Moin-ut-Tojar Dehdashty (referred to as Muin-ut-Tujjar), and the award of export sales contracts for the mined Hormuz oxide to the two rival Britis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1916
Extent:
1 volume (288 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/10/409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/409
Title:
File 3615/1913 Pt 2-3 'Persian Gulf - Lease of Islands (& Muin ut Tujjar's Concession). Persian Gulf Islands as to occupation in case of war with Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 2 and 3 of the subject ‘Persian Gulf: Moin-ut-Tujjar’s concessions’. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/409/1) concerns the lease of islands in the Persian Gulf and Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/409/2) concerns British occupation of the islands in the Persian Gulf in case of war with Persia. T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912-1918
Extent:
1 volume (186 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/10/416

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/416
Title:
File 4045/1913 Pt 1-2 'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, minutes and memoranda regarding the Société Internationale d'Études du Chemin de Fer Transpersan's proposed bid for an option to construct a railway in Persia. Parts one and two of three. Topics covered: the proposed application by the Société Internationale d'Études for the opt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1913-1916
Extent:
1 volume (251 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/10/417

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/417
Title:
File 4045/1913 'Pt 3 Railways: Trans-Persian Railway; Russian concession; Bandar Abbas-Kerman Railway; Kerman mining concession'
Scope & Content:
Continuation of correspondence and memoranda regarding the proposed construction of railways in Persia, and additional bids for mining concessions. The correspondents are the India Office Political Department, the Foreign Office, HM Minister at Teheran [Charles Murray Marling], Marquess Curzon,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1916-1932
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/10/456

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/456
Title:
File 2830/1914 Pt 1 'Persian Gulf: Sponge Fisheries. Sponge Exploration Syndicate.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns the attempts of a British company called the Sponge Exploration Syndicate to obtain concessions for the fishing and exploitation of sponges in the Persian Gulf. However, the papers indicate that it was felt by British officials that the real object of the company was to explo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 May 1905-11 Dec 1916
Extent:
1 volume (240 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/10/669

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/669
Title:
File 1250/1917 ‘Turkey:– The Ottoman Public Debt. Salif Salt Quarries.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to rock salt extraction at Salif [As Salif] in Yemen. The correspondence chiefly concerns various efforts on the part of British interests to agree a concession for the extraction of rock salt at Salif, a concession operated prior to the First World War b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1917-9 Jul 1929
Extent:

1 volume (223 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/10/794

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/794
Title:
File 357/1919 Pt 2 ‘RAILWAYS IN PERSIA’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to the construction of the Trans-Persian Railway. It contains material relating to: The Persian Railway Syndicate’s attempt to enlist the aid of Rabbi Joseph Saul Kornfeld, the United States Envoy to Persia [Iran], and the British Foreign Office’s subsequent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Dec 1921-28 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 volume (573 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/10/989

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/989
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 1-2 'OIL: PERSIAN GULF AND ARAB LITTORAL'
Scope & Content:
The volume is composed of two parts, IOR/L/PS/10/989/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/989/2. IOR/L/PS/10/989/1 is formed of telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf. IOR/L/PS/10/989/2 is concerned with the travels of two...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921-1925
Extent:
1 volume (361 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/10/990

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/990
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the development of oil concessions on the Arab littoral of the Persian Gulf. The discussion in the volume relates to: The activities of Major Frank Holmes Draft agreements for an oil concession with th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1931
Extent:
1 volume (395 folios)