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IOR/L/PS/10/333
- Record Id:
- 040-000545230
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0000e4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100029104181.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/333
- Title:
- File 342/1913 'Mesopotamia: Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co; mail contract'
- Scope & Content:
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This volume contains memoranda, correspondence, telegrams, and minutes of letters between British officials regarding a contract between the India Office and the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company for mail service and commercial transports on the River Tigris between Baghdad and Basrah; the India Office's complaints for their unsatisfactory service from 1912, and the renewal of the contract in 1914. The volume also briefly discusses the British Post Offices in Baghdad and Basra, and the abolition of British Post Offices in Turkey.
The main correspondents are: Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company, the India Office, and the Foreign Office.
There is a letter in French within the file, a copy of a declaration from Hakki Pacha, Ottoman Ambassador.
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.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545230 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/333 : File 342/1913 'Mesopotamia: Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Co; mail contract' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0335]/040-000545230
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (138 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0000e4
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1904
- End Date:
- 1919
- Date Range:
- 15 Feb 1904-30 Jun 1919
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 140; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front cover. A previous foliation sequence between ff 44-138, which is also written in pencil and circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- P 342/1913
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 342 (Mesopotamia) consists of one volume, IOR/L/PS/10/333.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)