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281. IOR/L/PS/18/B366

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B366
Title:
Mesopotamian Antiquities
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum by Sir Leonard Day Wakely (signed L D W), Political Department, India Office, dated 3 February 1921, provides an overview of antiquities in Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The memorandum detail: the Ottoman administration of archaeology; German archaeological expeditions during th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1921
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

282. IOR/L/PS/18/B25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B25
Title:
Contract between The Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited and the Secretary of State for India
Scope & Content:
A contract for operating a weekly shipping and mail service between Bussora [Basra] and Baghdad.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1884
Extent:

3 folios

283. IOR/L/PS/18/B181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B181
Title:
British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf. Memorandum on Lieutenant-Colonel Cox's telegram reports in Government of India's telegram of 1 December 1910.
Scope & Content:
This memorandum concerns British relations with Turkey in the Persian Gulf and was written by Frederic Arthur Hirtzel in December 1910. The immediate question it addresses is 'the desirability of concluding a treaty with a Sheikh or Sheikhs of the El Katr [Qatar] peninsula as a bulwark against T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1910
Extent:
5 folios

284. IOR/L/PS/18/B241

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B241
Title:
‘Germany, Turkey, England and Arabia. [extracts from ‘The Fight for Arabia between Turkey and England’ by Dr Franz Stuhlmann]’
Scope & Content:
Confidential memorandum containing a list of chapters and translated extracts from the book Der Kampf um Arabien zwischen der Türkei und England [The Fight for Arabia between Turkey and England] by Dr Franz Stuhlmann of the Hamburgischen Kolonialinstitut [Hamburg Colonial Institute], and publis...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1916
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

285. IOR/L/PS/18/C1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C1
Title:
ABSTRACT of PAPERS relating to the Succession to the Throne of Persia, and the Nomination of a Regent.
Scope & Content:
Confidential printed memorandum. The memorandum is divided into the following sections: 'Memorandum on the Succession to the Throne of Persia (folios 9-13); 'Memorandum by Sir H. Rawlinson [Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson] on the Succession to the Throne of Persia' (folios 13-15); 'Note on the App...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1859
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

286. IOR/L/PS/18/C107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C107
Title:
Persia - policy to be pursued towards. Minute by the Viceroy of 29 December 1871 with a note
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a memorandum and additional note by Lord Mayo, Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, concerning British policy in Persia. It expresses Lord Mayo's opinion on Anglo-Indian foreign policy such as building relations of friendship, the maintenance of peace, and oppo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Dec 1871
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)

287. IOR/L/PS/18/B76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B76
Title:
Memorandum respecting the Claim of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to use Barges on those Rivers as a matter of "right"
Scope & Content:
This file is a Foreign Office memorandum regarding the right of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam-ship Company to sail their barges on those rivers, written by Foreign Office Librarian, Edward Hertslet. The file contains a summary of negotiations between the British and Ottoman Governments and as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 May 1881
Extent:

1 volume (8 folios)

288. IOR/L/PS/18/B85

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B85
Title:
Letter and Enclosures from Commodore Sir Leopold George Heath on the Slave Trade on the East Coast of Africa and Suggestions for its Suppression
Scope & Content:
This file contains copies of a series of letters (and their various enclosures) between Admiral Sir Leopold George Heath, Commander of HMS Octavia and the following individuals: The Secretary of the Admiralty, Lord Henry George Charles Gordon-Lennox; Britain's Agent in Zanzibar, Henry Adrian Chu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Nov 1869
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

289. IOR/L/PS/18/B166a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B166a
Title:
Collection of papers respecting the attitude of His Majesty's Government in regard to the Bagdad Railway and the Purchase of Land at Koweit (amended version)
Scope & Content:
The document, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, is a collection of letters and dispatches from 3 March 1904 to 16 September 1907, between the India Office and the Government of India on the purchase of land in Kuwait for the Baghdad Railway.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1907
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

290. IOR/L/PS/18/B316

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B316
Title:
'Report on the prospects of obtaining oil in the Jabal-Hamrin and Jabal-Makhul between Tikrit and Sharqat by E H Pascoe, Geological Survey of India'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a document which provides topographical details for the mountain ranges of Jabal Hamrin and Jabal Makhul in Fars with a view to obtaining oil from the area. Edwin Hall Pascoe provides a general overview of the area before discussing the following areas in more detail: rocks ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1918
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)