Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 17/34 ‘Iraq. Tour in the Persian Gulf of H.M. Ambassador in Iraq’
- Date:
- 1940/1940
- Description:
- Abstract: 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.Physical description: 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in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Geographic region:
- Sharja
Muscat - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001b7_ar
81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001b7_en
IOR/L/PS/12/2896
IOR/L/PS/12/2896