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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Place Mesopotamia, Asia Minor Digitised Content Yes (available)

1. IOR/L/PS/5/433, ff 43-71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/433, ff 43-71
Title:
Military and Naval Personnel
Scope & Content:
Enclosure nos. 2-15 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 1 October 1844. The enclosures are dated 16 July-27 September 1844. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the pay, deployment and appointment of military and naval person...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1844
Extent:
1 item (29 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/453, ff 233-235

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/453, ff 233-235
Title:
‘Coal for the use of the Honorable Company's Steamer 'Nitocris' employed on the Rivers of Mesopotamia’
Scope & Content:
Enclosure no. 2 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 24 February 1848. The item only contains an abstract of contents, detailing enclosures nos. 3-6 on the subject of coal for the use of the East India Company ship Nitocris on the rivers of Mesopotamia [Iraq].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1848
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/458, ff 319-374

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/458, ff 319-374
Title:
The Steam Ship Nitocris on the Rivers of Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 102 of 1848, dated 30 November 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-36 and are dated 13 January to 23 December 1848. They mostly consist ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1848
Extent:
1 item (56 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/244
Title:
File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, telegrams, handwritten notes and other papers. They relate to negotiations between the British Government, the Government of India, and the Persian Government, over the status of British Indian post offices in south Persia, which took place before, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1920-1922
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/300
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1904-4 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 volume (412 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/301
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/300), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1913-31 Mar 1914
Extent:

1 volume (148 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/302/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/1
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/301), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Mar 1914-25 Nov 1915
Extent:

1 part (184 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/302/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/2
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914
Extent:

1 part (87 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/302/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
Scope & Content:
A chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’, Part 5 comprises correspondence following the annulment of the 19 March 1914 agreement on oil concessions in Mesopotamia, which discusses the wider implications of the war on oil concessions in Turkey, and antic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1914-23 Aug 1917
Extent:

1 part (29 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/367
Title:
File 1283/1913 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf: Trade Commercial Mission’
Scope & Content:
The volume is concerned with commercial possibilities within Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf for British trade. Of particular concern for British officials is ensuring that British firms are placed in the best possible position to counter expected competition from Germany and Japan following th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Jul 1916-12 Dec 1919
Extent:
1 volume (285 folios)