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2841. IOR/L/PS/10/86/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/86/2
Title:
File 2776/1905 Pt 2 ‘Arabia:- Jeddah Consulate. Expenditure’
Scope & Content:
The second part of the volume (folios 3 to 94) contains correspondence and notes about British Government expenditure on the consular establishment at the Red Sea port city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The correspondents are ministers and senior officials at the Foreign Office, the India Office and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jul 1900-22 Dec 1913
Extent:
91 folios

2842. IOR/L/PS/10/87

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/87
Title:
File 3131/1905 'Mesopotamia:- Irrigation.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, a memorandum, notes and reports on a scheme devised by Sir William Willcocks for irrigation in Mesopotamia. It also includes a number of reports about the effect of the Baghdad railway both on relations with Persia and on the defence of India. I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1910
Extent:
1 volume (214 folios)

2843. IOR/L/PS/10/88

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 1-2 ‘Mesopotamia’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing steamship contracts and concessions on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Mesopotamia (also referred to as Irak [Iraq]): part 1 concerns negotiations between India Office officials and representatives of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1911
Extent:
1 volume, 2 parts (389 folios)

2844. IOR/L/PS/10/88/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88/1
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 1 ‘Mesopotamia:- Euphrates + Tigris S. N. Co.; Mail contract’
Scope & Content:
Part 1 of the volume comprises correspondence relating to, as well as draft copies of (ff 325-327, ff 338-341, ff 384-386) an indenture for the renewal of the concession agreed between the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (ETSNC) and the British Government, for the conveyance of mai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1905
Extent:

1 item (72 folios)

2845. IOR/L/PS/10/88/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/88/2
Title:
File 3531/1905 Pt 2 ‘Mesopotamia:- Navigation of Tigris + Euphrates; Euphrates + Tigris Steam Navigation Co; Hamidieh Co.’
Scope & Content:
Part 2 of the volume is comprised of copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the proposed merger of the Turkish-Government-operated Hamidieh Steamship Company and the British company, the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (also referred to as the Lynch Company, ETSNC). ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1905-1911
Extent:
1 item (315 folios)

2846. IOR/L/PS/10/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/89
Title:
File 379/1906 'Railways: Aden; railway construction in Aden hinterland; Aden-Lahej Railway'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and notes, relating to proposals for the construction of a steam railway between Aden and its hinterland from 1904. The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1904-3 Apr 1922
Extent:
1 volume (150 folios)

2847. IOR/L/PS/10/89, f 114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/89, f 114
Title:
Map of the Proposed Railway from Aden to Nobat Dakim
Scope & Content:
The map shows the path for a proposed railway to be built from Aden to Nobat Dakim [Nawbatal-Dakim, Yemen; identified four miles north of Al'Anad but not corresponding to any place]. The map was zincographed by the Vandyke Process at the Survey of India Offices, in Calcutta.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1906
Extent:
1 map

2848. IOR/L/PS/10/91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/91
Title:
File 952/1906 'Persian Gulf: murder of Bahrainese near Katif'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the murder of a relative of the Shaikh of Bahrain by the al-Murrah tribe near Katif. Correspondence discussed how it was necessary to persuade the Government of Turkey to take action given the jurisdiction of the Sublime Porte on the coast of Arabia. In similar vein the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1901-1906
Extent:
1 volume (222 folios)

2849. IOR/L/PS/10/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/100
Title:
File 2818/1906 'Persia: Seistan disturbances and consular guard'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence which discusses a serious disturbance in Seistan in which a crowd attacked the British Consul over measures taken to limit the outbreak of plague. The dispatch of Indian Army troops to the town is discussed in the context of a consideration of the efficacy of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1909
Extent:
1 volume (165 folios)

2850. IOR/L/PS/10/101

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/101
Title:
File 2869/1906 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic: Mekran Coast and Baluchistan. (correspondence 1906-7)'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officers, reporting on the arms traffic along the Mekran coast and Baluchistan. Their correspondence contains numerous reports, such as that discussing the illicit traffic of arms. Correspondents include Sir Harold Arthur D...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1907
Extent:
1 volume (284 folios)

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