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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Viceroy and Governor-General of India in Council, 1773-1947

61. IOR/L/PS/9/76/107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/107
Title:
Letters between Harford Jones, Lord Elgin, the Earl of Mornington and John Malcolm
Scope & Content:
This item contains copies of three letters: 1. A letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 17 January 1800. In response to Elgin’s letter of 21 December 1799 (found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/104 and 106), Jones...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Oct 1799-17 Jan 1800
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/9/76/345

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/345
Title:
Letter from Marquess Wellesley to Samuel Manesty
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], received 16 September 1802. The letter concerns Manesty’s conduct in chartering a ship owned by himself to carry dispatches to India at the East India Company’s expense.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

63. IOR/L/PS/10/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/4
Title:
File 160/1903 'Persian Gulf: El Katr; appointment of Turkish Mudirs; question of Protectorate Treaty with El Katr'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains memoranda, copies of correspondence and telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding: Turkish claims over El Katr (Qatar), and the creation of Turkish administrative posts on the Qatari coast, with 'mudirs' (sub-governors) being assigned during 1903 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1902-16 Dec 1910
Extent:
1 volume (425 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/10/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/8
Title:
File 2410/1903 Pt 1 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Loans.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to a loan made to the Persian Government in April 1903, and further advances made during 1904 and 1905. The discussion in the volume relates to the terms of the loan agreements including possible concessi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Apr 1903-17 Jan 1906
Extent:
1 volume (526 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/10/25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/25
Title:
File 733/1904 Pt 1 'Muscat Arbitration. (1904-08).'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses a dispute between the British and French Government’s over the use of French flags on Muscat dhows and individuals dhow owners from Muscat claiming to be protégés of France owing to their vessels being registered as French. The two governments agreed in October 1904 for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1903-1906
Extent:
1 volume (385 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/10/26

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/26
Title:
File 733/1904 Pt 2 'Muscat Arbitration. (1906-09).'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, correspondence, notes, reports, and memoranda regarding the question of the settlement of the French flag dispute between the British and French governments following the award of the arbitration tribunal at The Hague on the question of the grant of the French fla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 May 1904-16 Apr 1909
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

67. IOR/L/PS/10/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/27
Title:
File 733/1904 Pts 3, 4, 5, and 6 'MUSCAT. COMMERCIAL TREATY. STATUS OF MUSCATIS. HOSPITAL.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises four parts discussing affairs in Muscat which are indirectly related to the Muscat Arbitration discussed in parts 1 and 2: part 3 discusses a possible revision of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Great Britain and Muscat, originally signed in 1892; p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1914
Extent:

1 volume (352 folios)

68. IOR/L/PS/10/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/47
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 1-2 'Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/1) concerns the installation (and temporary withdrawal) of a Political Agent at Kuwait. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/2) concerns proposals for, and the eventual establishment of, a Post Office in Kuwait. Each...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1899-1915
Extent:
1 volume (298 folios)

69. IOR/L/PS/10/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/48
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 3-4 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/48/1) concerns the grant of a lease in October 1907 by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. Par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1901-1918
Extent:
1 volume (270 folios)

70. IOR/L/PS/10/51/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51/1
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 9 'Koweit:- Relations with Turkey. Sheikhs claim to Bubiyan, Warba & Umkasr'
Scope & Content:
The papers concern the claims of Shaikh Mubarak [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ], Ruler of Koweit [Kuwait] to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr] against the competing claims of the Government of Turkey [the Ottoman Empire]. The principal correspondents are the British Ambassador a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1903-11 Apr 1910
Extent:

113 folios