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IOR/L/PS/12/2896
- Record Id:
- 040-000557932
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000557879
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001b7
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100045796391.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/2896
- Title:
- Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’
- Scope & Content:
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The file contains papers relating to a tour by Sir Basil Newton, HM Ambassador to Iraq, to the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, visiting Sharja [Sharjah], Muscat, Bahrain, Basra, Fao [Al-Faw], and Abadan.
The file mostly consists of the following:
- Correspondence between the India Office (Roland Tennyson Peel) and the External Affairs Department of the Government of India.
- Correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office.
- Copy correspondence between Newton and the Foreign Office, including a copy of a despatch from Newton to Viscount Halifax (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, containing Newton’s impressions and observations formed on the tour, and enclosing an account of his tour.
The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000557879
040-000557932 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/2845-2902 : Political (External) Collection 17: Iraq
IOR/L/PS/12/2896 : Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0018]/037-000557879[0053]/040-000557932
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (46 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001b7
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1940
- End Date:
- 1940
- Date Range:
- 10 Feb 1940-28 Jun 1940
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 49; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- Coll 17/34
- Arrangement:
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)