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521. IOR/R/15/1/613, f 126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/613, f 126
Title:
‘SKETCH MAP OF THE PERSIAN GULF & ARABIAN COAST’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Harrison & Sons Lith. St. Martins Lane, W.C. Distinctive Features: Map issued as an Annex no. 5A to Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 29 July 1913 with roads and overland and submarine telegraph lines shown. Blue line runs from Jazirat az Zakhnūnīyah to the centre of Rub' al Khali. Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 map

522. IOR/R/15/1/217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/217
Title:
‘File 5/190 III Manumission of slaves at Muscat: individual cases’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains thirty-nine manumission subjects, each one involving the manumission request of one or more slaves, who had sought refuge at the Political Agency in Muscat (then under the charge of Major G. Murphy). Each manumission case follows a very similar pattern. Murphy sent a copy of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
11 Mar 1929-32 Dec 1932
Extent:

One volume (353 folios)

523. IOR/R/15/1/227

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/227
Title:
File 5/193 III (B 46) Slavery in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The volume contains confidential correspondence related to the slave trade and slavery, exchanged between a number of British Government representatives. It should be read in conjunction with IOR/R/15/1/226, of which this file is a continuation, there being numerous references to it in some of t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1936-4 Apr 1938
Extent:

1 volume (243 folios)

524. IOR/R/15/1/248

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/248
Title:
14/88 III B 33 Tamb Island
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the islands of Bahrain, Tanb (also written as Tamb) [Greater and Lesser Tumb] and Abu Musa in the context of the Persian claim to these islands. The main correspondents are Senior Naval Officer Persian Gulf; Political Resident Persian Gulf (Trenchard...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 Sep 1934-25 Jun 1935
Extent:
1 volume (205 folios)

525. IOR/R/15/1/578

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/578
Title:
File 61/14 II (D 46) Relations between Nejd and 'Iraq
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to affairs between the British Mandate of Iraq and the Kingdom of Najd and the Hejaz, ruled by Ibn Sa'ud. Most of the correspondence is between the Political Residency in Bushire, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, the Hig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Jan 1927-31 Dec 1927
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

526. IOR/R/15/1/702

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/702
Title:
'Confdl. 86/48 Ras al Khaimah Oil'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises a letter from Ernest Vincent Packer, Manager for Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Arnold Crawshaw Galloway) enclosing a copy of the oil concession agreement signed with Sheikh Sulṭān bin Sālim Āl Qasimī of Ras-al-Khaim...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Jun 1845-28 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

527. IOR/R/15/1/610, f 230

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/610, f 230
Title:
‘Irrigation and Railway Map. ENCLOSURE B’
Scope & Content:
Imprint: S.D.O. Topo. Dy. No. 14, Exd. C.J.A., April 1911. Distinctive Features: Map produced to illustrate the proposed railway and irrigation scheme in Mesopotamia recommended by Sir William Willcocks. Includes a key and an explanatory note on railways with distances between Baghdad and Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1911
Extent:
1 map

528. IOR/R/15/1/266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/266
Title:
14/138 Arab Coast: Hostilities Between the Chiefs of Abu Dhabi and Um al Kowein over the affairs of the Bani Katb tribe. April 1904 to May 1916
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discussing the role of Sheikh Zaid bin Khalifah, Sheikh of Abu Dhabi on the Trucial Coast and the battles and disputes between the Trucial Shaikhs. Also discussed is the agreement, arranged by the Political Resident Persian Gulf which secured the release of the Shaikh of Umm al-Qa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1904-14 Feb 1916
Extent:
1 volume (140 folios)

529. IOR/R/15/1/400

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/400
Title:
File 35/84 I A. 5. Muscat Treaty of 1891; lease of Bandar Jissah by the Sultan of Muscat to the French for a coaling station
Scope & Content:
Correspondence about the lease of Bandar Jissah by the Sultan of Muscat to the French for a coaling station. Includes, in English and Arabic, the 'lawful and honourable Bond' of 28th March 1891 whereby Sayyid Faisal bin Turki, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, pledged never to cede, sell or mortgage an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 May 1891-30 Jan 1899
Extent:
1 volume (34 folios)

530. IOR/R/15/1/625, f 18C

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/625, f 18C
Title:
Sketch map showing Oman and Trucial States
Scope & Content:
Distinctive Features: Relief shown by shading. Various routes shown in colour with a key of reference provided below map. Copied from a ‘Sketch map to illustrate the paper on “Some Excursions in Oman” by Major General Sir Percy Cox, G.C.M.G.’ published in the Geographical Journal in Septemb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1926
Extent:
1 map sheet