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5871. IOR/L/PS/18/B8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B8
Title:
Memorandum on the Turkish claim to sovereignty over the eastern shores of the Red Sea and the whole of Arabia; and on the Egyptian claim to the whole of the western shore of the same sea, including the African coast from Suez to Cape Guardafui.
Scope & Content:
Memorandum prepared by Edward Hertlset, Foreign Office Librarian, on 5 March 1874 (printed by the Foreign Office 10 March 1874). The document gives a historical overview (from 1517 to 1874) of claims on the Red Sea coast, with particular focus on those of the Ottoman Turks and the Egyptians. It ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Mar 1874
Extent:

35 folios

5872. IOR/L/PS/18/B9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B9
Title:
Memorandum on the separate claims of Turkey and Persia to sovereignty over the island of Bahrein.
Scope & Content:
Memorandum prepared by Edward Hertslet, Foreign Office Librarian, on 23 March 1874 (printed by the Foreign Office 25 March 1874). The document gives a historical overview (from 1506 to 1874) of claims on the islands of Bahrain (referred to as Bahrein throughout), with particular focus on those o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1874
Extent:

20 folios

5873. IOR/L/PS/18/B11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B11
Title:
Memorandum on Expenses of Zanzibar Consulate, &c.
Scope & Content:
A memorandum explaining the deadlock between the India and Foreign Offices regarding the expenses of the Zanzibar Agency. With quotations from correspondence, the text gives an outline of the principal events since 1861 to document a historical disagreement between the departments over the princi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Dec 1874
Extent:

7 folios

5874. IOR/L/PS/18/B13

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B13
Title:
Zhali. Turkish Aggression.
Scope & Content:
A brief account by Brigadier-General John William Schneider, Political Resident at Aden, explaining that the elected Ameer [Emir] of Zhali, Ali bin Mokhbil, had been replaced after refusing to submit to the Turks after they took over the region in 1873. The author fears that Turkish influence wil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1876
Extent:

1 folio

5875. IOR/L/PS/18/B14a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14a
Title:
Memorandum No 1. Zanzibar Agency and Consulate Expenses
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 17 August 1876. The first part of the document is a claim of expenses for an annual subsidy of 40,000 crowns from the Sultan of Zanzibar to the Sultan of Mu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Aug 1876
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

5876. IOR/L/PS/18/B14b

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14b
Title:
Report of a committee on the Muscat subsidy and the Zanzibar Agency and Consulate
Scope & Content:
A printed report, written by a Committee formed by Louis Mallet, Henry Cadogan Rothery and William Henry Wylde, 8 December 1876. The Committee was nominated by H M's Treasury, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of State for India, to determine whether the Imperial Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1876
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

5877. IOR/L/PS/18/B14c

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B14c
Title:
Mr Rothery's report to the Treasury in respect to the Muscat subsidy and Zanzibar Agency Expenses
Scope & Content:
A printed memorandum, written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary of the Political and Secret Department of the India Office, 27 September 1876. The memorandum discusses the views of Henry Cadogan Rothery on whether the Imperial Government had to contribute to the payment of an ann...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Sep 1876
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

5878. IOR/L/PS/18/B15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B15
Title:
‘Consular jurisdiction in Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Report written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary in the Political Secret Department of the India Office, and dated 14 February 1877. The report, which deals with the question of British consular jurisdiction in Persia and the Persian Gulf, was written in order to close a matter th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Feb 1877
Extent:

18 folios

5879. IOR/L/PS/18/B15a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B15a
Title:
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary, Political Department
Scope & Content:
Printed copy of a letter which concerns the question of consular jurisdiction in Persia. Ross, in his capacity as Political Resident at Bushire, gives his opinion on papers he has read which regard consular jurisdiction in Persia: chiefly, the lack of need for a judge of appeal at Bushire, the l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1876
Extent:

1 folio

5880. IOR/L/PS/18/B16

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B16
Title:
‘Jeddah Consulate.—Captain Beyts’
Scope & Content:
Memorandum dated 23 April 1877, prepared by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Assistant Secretary in the Political and Secret Department of the India Office. The memorandum was prepared in response to Government discussion over the merit of establishing a British consulate at Jeddah that was ‘free from a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1877
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

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