Abstract: Enclosure no. 3 to dispatch no. 2 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 26 January 1861. The enclosure is dated 21 November 1861. Received 20 February 1861.The enclosure consists of a letter from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwarding a dispatch sent to HBM's Ambassador at Constantinople, communicating general information about events in Turkish Arabia, including the progress of construction of the telegraph line between Mosul and Baghdad.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Enclosure no. 3 to dispatch no. 4 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 February 1861. The enclosure is dated December 1860. Received 23 March 1861.The enclosure consists of a letter from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwarding a dispatch sent to the Foreign Office concerning the completion of the electric telegraph between Constantinople and Baghdad, and one to HBM's Ambassador at Constantinople, giving a summary of affairs at Baghdad.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a General Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 22 September 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 24 October 1873, forwarding, with a covering letter from the Bombay [Mumbai] Government, a report by the Civil Surgeon at Bagdad [Baghdad] containing his views on the relative effectiveness of the various options for the establishment of quarantine in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], with regard to the transmission of cholera and plague.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 689, and terminates at f 694a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains six foliation anomalies: f 689a, f 690a, f 691a, f 692a, f 693a, and f 694a.
Abstract: This volume consists of a report by Arthur Malet, Secretary to the Government of Bombay's Political and Secret Department, on the East India Company's connection with Turkish Arabia during the period 1646-1846.Also included is a plan of the city of Bussorah [Basra] (f 38).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 351; 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 and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.Pagination: the file also contains an original handwritten pagination sequence.The sequence includes two foliation anomalies, ff 140a and 141a.
Abstract: The volume contains papers mostly relating to expenditure incurred in Persia, and the issue of how this expenditure should be divided between the Imperial and Indian Exchequers.The papers mainly consist of correspondence between the India Office and the following: the Foreign Office, the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, and the Treasury; as well as India Office Minute Papers, Reference Papers, and other India Office papers and notes.The volume mostly concerns diplomatic and consular expenditure, specifically: the question of revising the existing arrangements under which, following the recommendations of the Welby Commission of 1900, the cost of this expenditure in Persia had been shared roughly equally between the Indian and Imperial Revenues (between the Indian Political Department and the Foreign Office); the proposals of the Foreign Office that Indian Political Department posts in Persia should be transferred to the Levant Consular Service, and thus come under the responsibility of the Foreign Office, with the Government of India paying a yearly contribution towards the posts; and the objections of the Government of India to the Foreign Office’s proposals.The volume also includes papers regarding: the cost of troops from the Indian Establishment employed in Oman and Persia during the First World War; and the projected contribution from Indian Revenues of a moiety of a loan of £2,000,000 to the Persian Government under the ‘Curzon Agreement’ [Anglo-Persian Agreement] of 1919. In addition, it includes some papers relating to expenditure on diplomatic and consular establishments in Turkish Arabia, Muscat and China, as well as Persia.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 430; 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 and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Abstract: Enclosure no. 3 to dispatch no. 14 from the Secret Department, Bombay Castle, dated 27 April 1861. The enclosure is dated 27 February 1861. Received 20 May 1861.The enclosure consists of a letter from James McAdam Hyslop, Officiating Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, forwarding a translation of a letter (dated 15 January 1861) from the Ottoman Government to the Governor General of Baghdad, confirming the existing arrangement with regard to the rights of navigation of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers by British steam vessels and boats.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)