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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Bagdad, Asia

31. IOR/L/PS/9/76/246

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/246
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Marquess Wellesley
Scope & Content:
A copy of a secret dispatch from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 21 June 1802. Jones forwards correspondence (attached) concerning the Persian [Iranian] reaction to the sack of Meshed Hossein [Shrine of I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1802-23 Jun 1802
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/9/76/250

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/250
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Wellesley
Scope & Content:
A copy of a secret dispatch from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 21 June 1802. Jones forwards correspondence (attached) concerning the Persian [Iranian] reaction to the sack of Meshed Hossein [Shrine of I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1802-23 Jun 1802
Extent:
1 item (7 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/9/76/272

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/272
Title:
Bulletin from Bagdad
Scope & Content:
The first part of a bulletin written by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 20 September 1802. The bulletin describes a struggle for power in Bagdad between Ally Pasha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah] and the Janissary Aga [Commander of the local Janissary corps], in particular a batt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

34. IOR/L/PS/9/76/273

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/273
Title:
Bulletin from Bagdad
Scope & Content:
The second part of a bulletin written by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 20 September 1802. The bulletin describes a struggle for power in Bagdad between Ally Pasha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah] and the Janissary Aga [Commander of the local Janissary corps], culminating in the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/9/76/278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/278
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Alexander Stratton
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Alexander Stratton, HM Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 25 September 1802. Jones stresses the threat to Bagdad from the Wa-ha-by [Wahhābī movement], urging the Porte [Government of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1781-1805
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/10/117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/117
Title:
File 636/1907 'Turkish Arabia: Bagdad Consulate. Mr Gaskin (Commercial Asst). Detention by Turkish authorities (1914-1918). Settlement of accounts.'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the appointment of John Calcott Gaskin as Commercial Assistant to the British Consul at Bagdad in 1906, and the decision for his salary to be paid jointly by the British Government Treasury and the Government of India. Following the outbreak of The First World War t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1904-28 Mar 1929
Extent:
1 volume (300 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/10/793

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/793
Title:
Persia: Railway Construction; Negotiations between the Persian Govt. and the Anglo-Persian Oil Co; Acquisition of Gulf Islands
Scope & Content:
This volume is about the construction of railways in Persia [Iran] and negotiations between the Persian Government and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) over the acquisition of islands in the Persian Gulf. It contains material relating to: The Persian Government’s interest in attracting Americ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1919-1 Dec 1921
Extent:
1 volume (311 folios)

38. IOR/L/PS/12/811

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/811
Title:
Ext 1948/43 'Iraqi dinar notes repatriated from Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
Letter form Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, HR Ambassador from Iran to the Foreign Office, relating to the cost in dinar notes of some parcels that were despatched by air but lost off the coast of Spain.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (1 folio)

39. IOR/L/PS/12/1987

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1987
Title:
Coll 5/35 ‘Iraq: Civil aviation in: Opening of airports at Bagdad and Magil’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the establishment of new civil airports at Baghdad (1933) and Basra (1934), and subsequent additions to these facilities. It also contains copies of a number of notices to airmen issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Communications and Works: see folios 5-8 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1930-4 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/12/2039

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2039
Title:
Coll 5/77 ‘Muscat: including activities of U.S. Air Force and Pan-American Airways in the Middle East’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the operations of Pan American Airlines in the Middle East; British officials were concerned that the airline was using the war as a pretext for commercial penetration of British controlled territories. The file therefore covers the militarisation of Pan American Airli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1941-19 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (206 folios)