Abstract: This file includes minutes and correspondence on the Interdepartmental Conference to discuss post-war extended service in India or Mesopotamia. Topics discussed include rates of pay, payments of bounties, furlough, and passages for family members.The file includes a printed minute 'Military Department Minute on the Military Situtation in India Consequent of the War' (ff 64-72).Correspondents include the Earl of Derby (Secretary of State for War); Sir Thomas Holderness (Permanent Under-Secretary of State, India Office); Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Vaughan Cox, Military Secretary, India Office.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 73; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: there are intermittent typed pagination sequences.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai]. The correspondents are the Government of Bombay and Major Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the sixteenth in a series of twenty items on the Persian Gulf (the others are IOR/F/4/2180/106055, IOR/F/4/2180/106056, IOR/F/4/2180/106057, IOR/F/4/2180/106058, IOR/F/4/2180/106059, IOR/F/4/2180/106060, IOR/F/4/2181/106061, IOR/F/4/2181/106062, IOR/F/4/2181/106063, IOR/F/4/2181/106064, IOR/F/4/2181/106065, IOR/F/4/2181/106066, IOR/F/4/2181/106067, IOR/F/4/2181/106068, IOR/F/4/2181/106069, IOR/F/4/2181/106071, IOR/F/4/2181/106072, IOR/F/4/2181/106073, and IOR/F/4/2181/106074).The item concerns the privileges of British subjects being granted to the Agent in Persia of Messrs Graham & Co.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 282/47, P.C. [Previous Communication] 5573, Coll[ection]: 10, Collection No 12 of No 11’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 94, and terminates at f 96, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the volume also contains an original pagination sequence.
Abstract: Correspondence and papers exchanged between representatives of the India Office and Foreign Office, and British officials in the Persian Gulf, concerning a proposed agreement to extend financial privileges to United States officials other than diplomatic or consular personnel, who are based in the Persian Gulf region. The file includes a copy of the articles of the proposed agreement (folio 4), and confirmation from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 16 June 1945, that there are no such United States officials in Kuwait, Bahrain or the Trucial Coast (folio 8).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-9; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: This item contains copies of three letters between Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]:1. A letter from Lord Elgin to Harford Jones, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 8 November 1800. The letter reports that Elgin has dispatched Charles Bruce to Persia [Iran] and India, and asks Jones to assist him en route.2. A letter from Lord Elgin to Harford Jones, sent from Constantinople and dated 8 November 1800. The letter concerns the Birat [commission] granted by Elgin to Mordochay [Mordechai, also known as Morad] Coen, a Jewish merchant in Bagdad.Attached is a memorandum dated 8 November 1800, addressing the Pacha’s [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] objections to the grant of the Birat to Coen.3. A letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin, sent from Bagdad and dated 19 December 1800. The letter concerns the transit of mail and the Birat granted by Elgin to Morad Coen, which is finally accepted by the Pashaw [Pāshā].Attached is a list of letters received by Jones from Hassan Byrackdar [Bayrakdar], a ‘Tartar’ [courier] who had been plundered en route from Constantinople to Bagdad.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 1 January 1801.The letter concerns Elgin’s grant of a Birat [commission] to Morad (also known as Mordechai) Coen, a Jewish merchant in Bagdad, and the reaction to this of Soliman Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad]. It also discusses the replacement of the Baghdad Janissary Aga [Commander of the Janissary corps].Attached are English and Ottoman Turkish copies of a letter from Soffian Aga [Sufyān Āghā], Agent of the Pashaw of Bagdad in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Soliman Pashaw. The letter advises Soliman Pashaw that the Birat granted to Morad Coen can be withdrawn if Soliman Pashaw writes to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra].Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)
Abstract: An extract from the records of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency, consisting of correspondence of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, with Soliman Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] and Jean-François Rousseau, French Consul in Bagdad, dated 5-10 February 1802.The correspondence concerns the placing of seals [locks] by the Government of Bagdad on the house of the late Giuseppe Leoni, a subject of the Emperor of Germany [Holy Roman Empire], which is protested by Jones and Rousseau. The correspondence includes an extract of the Capitulations between Britain and the Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire].The extract was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Charles Mills, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 19 February 1802 (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/218).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)