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211. IOR/L/PS/18/B236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B236
Title:
Statement [on the expedition to Mesopotamia] by Political Secretary, India Office
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum, marked 'Secret' is a statement by Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, Political Secretary, India Office, dated 30 August 1916, concerning the British campaign against Turkey in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in the context of the First World War, in particular British intentions to advance...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1916
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

212. IOR/L/PS/18/B262

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B262
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Position of Chief Political Officer (Sir Percy Cox).
Scope & Content:
This document contains various extracts of telegrams of correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, and General Maude, regarding a possible change to Cox's professional position as requested by him. The changes to C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Aug 1917
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

213. IOR/L/PS/18/B292

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B292
Title:
Memorandum on British Commitments to King Husein
Scope & Content:
This is a printed memorandum outlining British commitments made to King Husein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī] compiled by the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office. The memorandum is split into seven sections as follows: 'General Guarantees against the Restoration of the status q...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1918
Extent:

10 folios

214. IOR/L/PS/18/B410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B410
Title:
Arms traffic in the Persian Gulf, 1908-1928
Scope & Content:
Memorandum outlining developments in the suppression of the trade in arms in the Persian Gulf from 1908-28. Covering: introduction to arms traffic in Muscat, and the reduction in arms traffic in the Gulf as a whole; treaty engagements, etc., of states bordering on the Persian Gulf – including P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1928
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

215. IOR/L/PS/18/B199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B199
Title:
'MEMORANDUM RESPECTING THE NAVIGATION OF THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES.'
Scope & Content:
Memorandum, written by Richard William Brant and Edward Parkes of the Foreign Office, Apr 1913 regarding navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The memorandum is divided into four parts: Historical Memorandum respecting the navigation of the Mesopotamian rivers. The memorandum describes ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1913
Extent:

1 file (42 folios)

216. IOR/L/PS/18/B380

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B380
Title:
‘Memorandum respecting the frontier between Mohammerah and Turkey.’
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns the border between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Turkey, and was prepared by Alwyn Parker of the Foreign Office. There are a number of labels at the top of the first page: ‘Persia’, ‘Confidential’ and ‘Section 10’. The memorandum sections are as follows: Part I. A preface...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Apr 1912
Extent:

1 file (41 folios, 5 maps)

217. IOR/L/PS/18/B16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B16
Title:
‘Jeddah Consulate.—Captain Beyts’
Scope & Content:
Memorandum dated 23 April 1877, prepared by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the India Office. The memorandum was prepared in response to Government discussion over the merit of establishing a British consulate at Jeddah that was ‘free from a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1877
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

218. IOR/L/PS/18/B60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B60
Title:
Memorandum on Sheikh Said
Scope & Content:
The memorandum was created based on the re-awakened interest on the part of the French in Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd], and is a collection of information held in the Political and Secret Department of the India Office relating to the territory. It Includes a summary of: the acquisition of Sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Mar 1893
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

219. IOR/L/PS/18/B15a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B15a
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary, Political Department
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of a letter which concerns the question of consular jurisdiction in Persia. Ross, in his capacity as Political Resident at Bushire, gives his opinion on papers he has read which regard consular jurisdiction in Persia: chiefly, the lack of need for a judge of appeal at Bushire, the l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1876
Extent:

1 folio

220. IOR/L/PS/18/B152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B152
Title:
British Museum report on the Persian Gulf as a possible area for successful sponge fisheries. (Pol. No. 1718/05)
Scope & Content:
Report prepared by Randolph Kirkpatrick of the British Museum (Natural History) in November 1905 into the commercial potential of sponge fisheries in the Persian Gulf. The report is organised into small sections, as follows: Conditions favourable to the growth of commercial sponges; Unfavourabl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1905
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

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