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1. ‘Aden. Compensation to the Jews residing at – for the removal of their Houses – Mr Plowden a traveller in Abyssinia – Vol: 4’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden; the Government of India; the Court of Directors of the East India Company; and Charles Augustus Murray, HM Agent and Consul General, Egypt. It is the fourth in a series of four items concerning Aden.The item concerns:The compensation to be given to those whose houses in the ‘Jews Town’ part of Aden are to be demolished to make way for a road, including a list of houses, their value, and their owner, on folio 348Money to be given to Walter Plowden to allow him and the envoy from Ras Ali [Ras Ali II of Yejju] to reach Cairo, and then England, bringing presents from Ras Ali to Queen Victoria.The item contains a contents page, and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft 700/47, Collection No 13’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 344, and terminates at f 355, 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 item also contains an original pagination sequence.
2. ‘Aden. Application from the Jewish inhabitants of Aden, for compensation on account of losses which they allege they have sustained by their Houses having been pulled down to admit of a new road being constructed.’
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- Abstract: The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence and minutes, which form partial enclosures to a letter from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] to the East India Company Court of Directors, dated 14 February 1846. A copy of this letter can be found at IOR/F/4/2142/102302, alongside details of further enclosures.The item relates to a petition from Jewish inhabitants of Aden to the Governor of Bombay (folios 174-175), requesting compensation following the order to vacate and demolish their houses at Aden as the government officials at Aden plan to build a road through the area. The petition is referred to Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent at Aden, who challenges the claims of the petitioners and recommends that compensation should not be awarded.The title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Bombay Political Department’, ‘P.C. [Previous Communication] 5264, Draft 494/46’, ‘Collection N. 8 of N. 25, Vol. 5’ and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 170, and terminates at f 179, 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 item also contains an original pagination sequence.
3. 'File 61/13 I (D 133) Wahabis and Pilgrimage to Hedjaz'
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- Abstract: The volume consists of letters, telegrams, memoranda, and reports relating to the Hajj pilgrimage to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. The majority of the correspondence is between the British Agency (later British Legation) in Jeddah, the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and Indian Office in London, the British Residencies in Bushire and Aden, the High Commissioners in Cairo and Baghdad, the Political Agencies in Bahrain and Kuwait, and Ibn Sa'ud.Contained in the volume are the annual reports on the pilgrimage composed by the Agent in Jeddah for the years 1929-1935 inclusive. Each report consists of some or all of the following:a general introduction;information on quarantine;statistics;information on health, transport, customs, 'mutawwifs' (pilgrim guides), religious policy, tariffs and the cost of pilgrimage, and pilgrims from other Muslim regions of the British Empire (India, Afghan, Malay, West Africa, Sudan, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan, Sarawak, Somalia, Zanzibar and East Africa, South Africa, Aden, Hadhramaut, Muscat, Bahrain, and Kuwait).Other documents cover the following subjects:the Hajj under King Hussein and the implications of a Wahhabi conquest of the Holy Cities;an attack on Yemeni pilgrims by the Ikhwan in August 1923 and the subsequent fighting;an Egyptian Medical Mission to Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina to assist with the pilgrimage;Jeddah's water supply;a new motor road between Medina and Najaf;Japanese interest in the pilgrim trade;the formation and progress of a National First-Aid Society in the Hejaz and Nejd;the religious tolerance of the Wahhabis, specifically the kissing of the Black Stone in Mecca.At the back of the volume (folios 205-206) are internal office notes.Physical description: Foliation: The sequence starts on the first folio and continues through to the inside back cover, the numbers written in pencil, circled, and located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The only irregularities are the first three folios (ff 1A-1C).Fold-out folio: f 2.There is an inconsistent and incomplete pagination sequence that is also written in pencil but is not circled.
4. Coll 30/130 'Persian Gulf. Koweit. Proposal for a motor route from Koweit-Haifa'
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- Abstract: This file contains correspondence between British officials in London, Palestine, Kuwait and India regarding proposals for the construction of a motor route from Kuwait-Amman (folios 4-53) and Kuwait-Haifa (folios 54-204).In addition to correspondence, the file contains the following:'War Cabinet. Official Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East. Saudi Arabia: Acquisition of a British Right of Way' 1940 (folios 22-28)'Reconnaissance, Kuwait-Haifa Route by Captain G.S. de Gaury, Political Agent, Kuwait. January 1939' (folios 64-103)'Details of expenditure incurred by Captain G.S. de Gaury, Political Agent, Kuwait, on his Reconnaissance Tour. January, 1939' (folio 110)Translation of article that appeared in al-'Iraqnewspaper of Baghdad 18 June 1936 entitled 'The Bewildered Kuwait Complains. Will There Be Any One To Hear?' (folios 196-199)Translation of article that appeared in At Taf Al Misri, 10 July 1936 entitled 'About Arab Kings and Rulers, The Rights of Pan-Arabism and the Rights of Courtesy' (folios 188-190).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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 205; 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.
5. Coll 20/12 'Muscat: Communications in Road construction'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence concerning the construction of roads in Oman by the Muscat Levy Corps. The correspondents include the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agency in Muscat, and the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India.The papers include a report by Captain AR Walker on the construction of the Muscat-Mattrah road (folios 13-19) and a memorandum by Captain Reginald George Evelyn William Alban on the extension of that road to Marair (folios 5-7).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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
6. Coll 28/58 ‘Persia. Roads in:–’
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- Abstract: Papers reporting on the progress of construction and condition of roads in Persia [Iran]. The file includes: extracts taken from the Persian diaries of the Bushire Residency and Consulate-General at Bushire; extracts from intelligence summaries and correspondence from the British Legation at Tehran and the British Consul at Meshed [Mashhad]; correspondence dated 1938 concerning the opening of a tunnel through the Candovan [Kandovān] Pass that connects Tehran to the Caspian Sea; correspondence and report extracts dated 1948/49 concerning the Zahidan [Zahedan] to Chahbahar (also spelt Chahbar [Chābahār]) and Chahbahar to Khwash roads.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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 19; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
7. File 815/1917 Pt 1B 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; Muscat lighthouse'
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- Abstract: This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the rebuilding of and improvements to the lighthouse in Muscat after the First World War. The correspondence notes that the Muscat lighthouse is not properly lit, and that there is a need to improve the pathway up to the cliff where the lighthouse is situated.The correspondence covers the following: agreements to improve the pathway, and a general description of the construction, with abstracts and measurements (ff 79-80, 114-116 and 141-143).Notable correspondents include the following: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary of the State for India; various departments of the Government of India, including the Army Department, the Marine Department, the Military Department and the Public Works Department; the Overseer, Muscat; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and the Director of the Royal Indian Marine.Physical description: 1 item (87 folios)