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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Concessions Name Foreign Office, 1782-1968

1. IOR/L/PS/10/318

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/318
Title:
File 4949/1912 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Abu Musa oxide’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the mining of red oxide on the island of Abū Mūsá in the Persian Gulf, before and after the First World War. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox); F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Oct 1912-15 May 1923
Extent:
1 volume (277 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/332

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/332
Title:
File 240/1913 'Mohammerah - Khoremabad Railway; the Khor Musa agreement'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains memoranda, correspondence and telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding railway constructions in Persia, focussing on the line planned between Mohammerah [Khorramshahr, Iran] and Khoremabad [Khorramabad, Iran]. The subjects covered are: the leasi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Farsi, and French
Date Range:
27 Nov 1912-14 Apr 1913
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

3. 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)

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/10/409

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)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/227
Title:
PZ 2729/37 'Pastori, an Italian subject: Activities in the Persian Gulf'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of telegrams reporting the activities of Tullio Pastori, an Italian subject in the Persian Gulf, whose objective is to obtain Arab labourers for employment in Eritrea on the behalf of the Italian authorities. He is suspected of seeking to make concessions with the Sheikhs of Di...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1937-30 May 1938
Extent:
1 file (31 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2071

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2071
Title:
Coll 6/8(1) 'Printed Series: 1929 to 1938.'
Scope & Content:
This volume compiles printed copies of letters, telegrams, memoranda and newspaper extracts relating to Britain's involvement across the Arabian Peninsula during the period 1929-1938. Whilst the correspondence encompasses all matters concerning British interests in the region, much of it relates...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Jan 1929-15 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 volume (527 folios)