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Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/18/B16

1. 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)

2. IOR/L/PS/18/B160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B160
Title:
‘Baghdad Railway.’
Scope & Content:
Printed confidential memorandum (B 160), written by Major Lindsay Sherwood Newmarch, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia, dated 18 December 1906. The memorandum addresses the associated risks and benefits to be incurred and gained from not being involved in the construction of the Baghdad railw...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Dec 1906
Extent:

4 folios

3. IOR/L/PS/18/B161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B161
Title:
Memorandum on some more recent aspects of the Hedjaz Railway and its importance and influence on Arabian politics, with enclosures G A Lloyd, Honorary Attache, British Embassy, Constantinople (Sent as enclosure in Despatch No 758 from Sir G H Barclay to Sir E Grey, Constantinople, 17 Nov 1906) Foreign Office, 26 Nov 1906
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1906
Extent:
30pp

4. IOR/L/PS/18/B162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B162
Title:
Memorandum on British rights by treaty and otherwise with regard to the navigation of the Tigris and Euphrates. R W Brant, Foreign Office, 4 Feb 1907
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1907
Extent:
4pp

5. IOR/L/PS/18/B163

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B163
Title:
Memorandum on the correspondence relating to the proposed Agreement between Great Britain and Russia on the subject of Thibet. Foreign Office, 8 Mar 1907
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1907
Extent:
25pp

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B164
Title:
British relations with the Wahabees
Scope & Content:
Printed report communicated by the India Office and printed for the use of the Foreign Office. The report concerns British relations with the Wahabees [Wahhabi] emirs, from 1904 to 1907, the growing influence of Ibn Sa‘ūd [Āl Sa‘ūd, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal] and the British pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1908
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B165

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B165
Title:
Report (with Maps) on the country adjacent to the Khor Abdullah, and places suitable as Termini of proposed Bagdad Railway, by Captain E W S Mahon, RE July 1905
Scope & Content:
The report, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled by Captain Edward Willoughby Sandys Mahon, Royal Engineer on 24 July 1905 to identify places suitable as termini of the Baghdad Railway. He advises Bussorah [Basra] as the best place, for strategic and commercial reasons. The r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1905
Extent:

1 file (5 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/B166

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B166
Title:
Memorandum respecting British interests in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
The memorandum, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, was compiled on 12 February 1908 and contains information compiled by the India Office on British political and commercial interests in the Persian Gulf, including Pearl Fisheries (folios 58v-63); General Trade Statistics and German Comp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1908
Extent:

1 file (66 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/B166a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B166a
Title:
Collection of papers respecting the attitude of His Majesty's Government in regard to the Bagdad Railway and the Purchase of Land at Koweit (amended version)
Scope & Content:
The document, printed for the use of the Foreign Office, is a collection of letters and dispatches from 3 March 1904 to 16 September 1907, between the India Office and the Government of India on the purchase of land in Kuwait for the Baghdad Railway.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1907
Extent:

1 file (17 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/B167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B167
Title:
Note on the negotiations for the revision of the Tibet Trade Regulations of 1893. Simla: Foreign Dept, 26 May 1908
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 May 1908
Extent:
50pp