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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/1003

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1003
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 May 1933-15 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 volume (488 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/39
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:

1 volume (235 folios)

7. 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)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/991

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/991
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: The 'nationality clause' whereby any concession granted had to be to a British concern Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jul 1931-30 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 volume (457 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/992

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/992
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3B 'Persian Gulf: oil; Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: A proposed visit by the Shaikh of Kuwait to the Anglo-Persian oilfields (ff 488-492) A report (ff ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1933
Extent:
1 volume (492 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/993

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/993
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: oil: Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of an oil concession in Bahrain. The discussion in the volume relates to: The form of wording to be used in an agreement with the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1930
Extent:
1 volume (709 folios)