IOR/L/PS/10/67

This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the delineation of the border between the British Protectorate of Aden and the Ottoman Vilayet of Yemen.

Much of the correspondence is between officials at the Foreign Office and the India Office. Much of the correspondence relates to negotiations between the British and the Ottoman Empire and the work of the Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission (under Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab and Colonel Mustapha Remzi Bey). The file contains some copies of correspondence in French that were sent to Ottoman officials in the course of negotiations.

The file contains seven maps, the details of which are as follows:

• a series of four maps entitled 'South Arabia, Anglo-Turkish Boundary' Sheets 1-4 (folios 43-46);
• a printed map entitled 'Map of Subaihi Border' with place names in English and Arabic (folio 120);
• a printed map of the Shekh Sa'id [Sheikh Said] Peninsula (folio 121);
• a printed map entitled 'Sketch Map of Aden Boundary' (folio 276).

The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in it arranged by year. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.