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1. '1914 5085 P. 1 &2 German War. Turkey. Jeddah Affairs'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes, relating to the Consulate Affairs in Jeddah, following the outbreak of war with the Ottoman Empire and the withdrawal of the British consul at Jeddah.Further discussion surrounds correspondence with Italy and the Netherlands over arrangments for the maintenance of buildings and the payment of staff, and the refusal of the Turkish Government to allow the American Consular Agent in Aden to visit Jeddah.The principal correspondents in the volume include the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge; the Political Resident, Aden, the Paymaster General's Office; the Under-Secretary of State for India and the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.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 in the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 185; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the leading flyleaf and ending flyleaf, have not been foliated.
2. Ext 2804/42 'Archives of legations, etc, abroad'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and telegrams from the Government of India, External Department, the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for India, the British Legation at Bangkok, the Commonwealth Legation Office, the Foreign Office Library, and the Office of the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom to British India, regarding the removal of the archives of the HM Legation in Bangkok and of the HM Embassy in China. The eighty-four boxes containing the archives were initially sent to Singapore in 1941 and, after its fall, were shipped to India in 1942, and then to the Foreign Office Library in London, in 1948. The file contains details and costs of the transport and storage, and details on the preservation and storage of the boxes.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 53; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
3. PZ 7079/31 'Arabia: location of archives of the British Consulate Jeddah, 1913-16'
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- Abstract: The file comprises telegrams, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the location of the archives of the British Consulate, Jeddah, relating to the period 1909-16. Correspondence between the Government of Bombay and the Government of India describes how the archives were deposited with the Government of Bombay for safekeeping in 1913.The file lists the contents of the archives and effects (ff 587-592).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 584, and terminates at f 598, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, 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.
4. PZ 1030/40 'Documents of Historical Interest among Consular Archives. Baghdad Consular Archives'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to wartime transfers from Iraq to India for the safe keeping of the records of the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia (Iraq) and Consul-General at Baghdad, 1756-1917, and also those of the High Commissioner for Iraq at Baghdad, a post established in 1920. The first transfer of records took place after the British occupation of Baghdad in 1917.It is agreed between government officials that the work of examining, selecting and cataloguing the records would be done at the Government of India Imperial Record Department, Calcutta, and paid for by the Foreign Office. It is also agreed that at the end of the Second World War (1939-1945), the selected records would be transferred to England for permanent preservation at the Public Record Office (later the National Archives of the United Kingdom). There are two enclosures of an earlier date than the main correspondence. These are a telegram from the Political Resident in Turkish Arabia to the Government of India in 1918, and two copies of Foreign Office instructions issued in 1920 about the criteria for the preservation or destruction of British Consular records, in accordance with the Public Record Office Act, 1877.The principal correspondents are: Stephen Gaselee, Librarian, Foreign Office; John P Gibson, Head of Political Department, India Office; and M Smith, Secretary, Government of India, Foreign and Political Department.The file includes a divider, which gives a list 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 first folio with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 44; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
5. Coll 28/87 ‘Persia. Railways. Mirjawa-Duzdap Section of Duzdap Railway; Zahidan Railway; Road communications between Persia & Indian Persia.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence relating to an enquiry dated 29 December 1948 from the British Ambassador at Tehran, John Haller Le Rougetel, to the Foreign Office, asking if the archives of the Government of India’s External Affairs Department dating prior to Indian partition (1947) can be freely shared with the Government of Pakistan. The specific document to which Le Rougetel’s enquiry relates is a secret memorandum on the Zahidan railway, situated on the frontier between Iran and Pakistan.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 21; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
6. Coll 20/37 'Muscat: French connections under Muscat'
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- Abstract: Correspondence relating to French relations with Muscat. Included in the file:correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India concerning French requests to communicate with the Sultan of Muscat about the visit of one of their cruisers Jeanne d'Arc(folios 23-25)India Office Memorandum B. 438, P. Z. 6811/34, marked confidential, 'Question whether a Naval Station could be established for use by His Majesty's Ships at Khor Quwai or elsewhere in Muscat Territory compatibly with the existing International Engagements of His Majesty's Government' by John Gilbert Laithwaite, 2 November 1934, including sections on the French historical presence in and relations with Muscat (folios 17-22)correspondence between the Government of Bombay, the Government of India (External Affairs Department), the Political Agency at Muscat, and American Consulate in Bombay concerning the care of French consular interests in Muscat, including transfer of the consulate archive to the Government of Bombay and the question of ownership of the former French Consulate building in Muscat (folios 3-16).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 27; 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.