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: Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) with Lord Halifax [George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax], Secretary of State for the Northern Department, with an enclosed letter to Mr Henry Grenville, His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]. The correspondence is concerned with the dispute between the EIC and the Bashaw [Pāshā] of Bagdad [Baghdad, also spelled as Bagdat], and the Bashaw’s complaint against the Levant Company.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, and memoranda, relating to the encroachment on the British Residency in Iraq by the Vali of Baghdad for the purpose of road widening. Also discussed is interference by the Turkish authorities with the property of Messrs Lynch Brothers as well as the ice factories of British Indians.The file also includes monthly summaries of events in Turkish Iraq compiled by the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General Baghdad, John Gordon Lorimer. These are generally arranged in the following sections: Musal [Mosul] wilayet; Baghdad wilayet; Basrah wilayet; Persian affairs; Najd affairs; British interests; foreign interests and cases other than Persia and British; commercial matters; general and miscellaneous.Correspondents include: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey; the Viceroy; Ambassador in Constantinople, Sir Gerard Lowther; British Vice-Consul, Karbala, M.H. Mosin; Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Baghdad.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 262; 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: The volume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities of Pan-Islamic activists in India, Afghanistan and North Africa during the first year of the First World War. The correspondence is particularly concerned with possible German and Ottoman support for the activists in carrying out destabilising activities against British and other Allied regimes. The primary correspondents are: Foreign Office; Political Resident, Persian Gulf; Government of India; Admiralty; British Consul, Addis Ababa; British Embassy, Cairo; British Embassy, Constantinople; British Embassy, Rome; British Consulate, Smyrna; British Legation, Tehran. Much of the correspondence covers suspected anti-British agitators believed to be in or travelling to India. Other topics covered include:A reported purchase of rifles by a German company with the intention of arming Pan-Islamists in India (ff 165-175)A suggestion that Muslim rulers of Indian states should be persuaded to make pro-British statements (ff 137-140)Intelligence received from a German source that an unnamed Indian ruler has ordered a large amount of arms from Germany (ff 108-115)Reports that the German diplomat and archaeologist Max von Oppenheim is intending to stir up anti-British feeling in Iraq, Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan (ff 4-6 and 15-20).The volume contains a single folio in French (f 41), a communication from the Russian Consul in Turbat-i-Haidari [Torbat-e Heydarieh], Persia. The volume 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 inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 177; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume contains correspondence in the form of telegrams, minutes, reviews and printed reports related to the civil administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. The volume includes the following reviews and reports:A ‘REVIEW OF THE CIVIL ADMINITSRATION OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF AL ‘IRAQ 1914---1918’, Compiled in the Office of the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, November, 1918. The review contains the following headings: ‘Al ‘Iraq under Turkish Rule and prior to the Advance to Baghdad’, ‘The Advance to Baghdad and After’, and ‘General Review of the Civil Administration’ (folios 224-266)A Report on Education in Mosul (folios 222-223)Department of Education monthly report issued by the Office of the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad, May 1919 (folios 215-221)Two drafts of the first five chapters of the review prepared by Miss Gertrude Bell (folios 118-146, and 157-185), with suggested edits and the question of presenting them to the Parliament.The volume also includes a complete copy of the ‘REVIEW OF THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF MESOPOTAMIA’, prepared by Bell under the direction of the Office of the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, and published by His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), December 1920 (folios 8-83). The review is an account of the British military occupation of Mesopotamia, and the establishment of an Arab Government. It contains a table of contents listing the following chapters:‘I. - Occupation of the Basrah [Basra] Wilayat’‘II. - Organisation of the Administration’‘III. - The pacification of the Tribes and Relations with the Shi’ah [Shia] towns up to the fall of Baghdad’‘IV. - Relations with Arab and Kurdish Tribes, and with the Holy Cities after the fall of Baghdad’‘V. - The Occupation of Mosul’‘VI. - The Kurdish Question’‘VII. - Development of Administration. The Revenue Department’‘VIII. - Judicial Administration’‘IX. - Organisation of the Education Department, Levies and Police, Civil Medical Service, Department of Commerce and Industry, Public Works, Railways, Finance, and Establishment’‘X. - The National Movement’‘Index’.Correspondents in the volume include: the Acting Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; the Education Department of Mesopotamia; the Under-Secretary of State for India; the Foreign Office; the Secretary to the Government of India; the Secretary of State; and the War Office.The volume 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 266; 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: Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran] Sir Harford Jones, to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Sir Robert Adair, dated 26 May 1810. The letter concerns the breaking off of armistice negotiations between Persia and Russia over the issue of the security of the Turkish [Ottoman] frontier, and details the Persian willingness to cooperate with England [Britain] and the Ottoman Empire on the condition that England and the Ottomans remain allies. Jones also states that he is enclosing an urgent letter [not included in this item] to Earl Bathurst.The letter was enclosed in Jones's secret letter of 2 June 1810, which was received on 4 October 1810.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Robert Adair, Ambassador to Turkey [Ottoman Empire]. The letter acknowledges receipt of a letter from Adair dated 17 May 1809, and discusses the war between Turkey and the Russian Empire and military operations in Georgia.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)