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391. 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

392. IOR/L/PS/18/B208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B208
Title:
Note by the Aga Khan and M. A. Ali Baig on the situation in Egypt
Scope & Content:
The file contains the views of the Aga Khan (Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah), and M A Ali Baig on the political situation in Egypt, based on a series of interviews held during a visit to Ismailia [Al Ismā'īlīyah], Suez, Port Said [Būr Saʻīd], Tanta, Alexandria, and the camps of the Indian troops, from...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1915
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

393. IOR/L/PS/18/B226

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B226
Title:
Letter from Brigadier-General Arthur Wigram Money, General Headquarters, India Expeditionary Force "D", Basrah [Basra] to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, India Office
Scope & Content:
The confidential letter reports on the tribal situation in Mesopotamia [Iraq], describing the various tribes located in the different listed geographic areas and noting whether they were friendly or hostile to British forces. The sections in the letter include: General - reporting on the check r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Jan 1916
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

394. IOR/L/PS/18/B229

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B229
Title:
[Letter] from Brigadier-General C H U Price, Political Resident, Aden, to the Political Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter from Brigadier-General Charles Henry Uvedale Price, the Political Resident at Aden, in which he forwards a report of a visit to the Idrisi Saiyid Muhammad ibn Ali Muhammad ibn Ahmad at Jezan by Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob. The report, dated 17 January 1916...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1916-27 Jan 1916
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

395. IOR/L/PS/18/B347

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B347
Title:
Mesopotamia. Appointment of Sir Percy Cox as High Commissioner: Instructions of His Majesty's Government
Scope & Content:
This printed report published by the India Office contains two sets of draft instructions approved by the Finance Committee of the Cabinet for Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's personal guidance as High Commissioner for Mesopotamia to give effect to the policy of His Majesty's Government. The first set ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1920
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

396. IOR/L/PS/18/B209

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B209
Title:
Abstract of Correspondence and Memorandum respecting the Yemen
Scope & Content:
The file contains an account given on the control and occupation of Yemen from June 1832 onwards. It covers the rebellion of Toorche Bilmer; the acquisition of Mocha by Mehemet Ali, Pasha of Egypt; the intentions of Mehemet Ali towards Aden, Muscat, and Baghdad; relations with the British Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Jan 1873
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

397. IOR/L/PS/18/B261

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B261
Title:
Mesopotamia Administration Committee. Sir P Cox's position.
Scope & Content:
This collection of telegrams relate to the professional differences between Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer, and General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. In the telegrams, Cox requests to be given more influence in his role or to be released from his duties. The b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1917-Jun 1917
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

398. IOR/L/PS/18/B465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B465
Title:
Sultanate of Muscat and Oman [Oil concession agreement]
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with an agreement relating to an oil concession at Muscat, which was made between Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, and Petroleum Concessions Limited on 24 June 1937. The agreement details the terms and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jun 1937
Extent:

1 file (10 folios)

399. IOR/L/PS/18/B340

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B340
Title:
Notes on the "Akhwan" Movement
Scope & Content:
This printed memorandum is entitled 'Notes on the "Akhwan" [Ikhwān] Movement' by Major Harold Richard Patrick Dickson, which he compiled following his 1920 visit to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Saud) at al-Hasa (al-Aḥsā’). The note contains the following sections: ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
May 1920
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

400. IOR/L/PS/18/B432

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B432
Title:
HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED KINGDOM TO KUWAIT OIL COMPANY, LIMITED. AGREEMENT relating to the Koweit Oil Concession.
Scope & Content:
Printed agreement between the British Government and the Kuwait Oil Company setting out the company's obligations to the British Government in the event of the company's obtaining a concession from the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait]. The agreement contains twelve clauses: clause 1 states that the Com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1935
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

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