File 3540/1916 'MESOPOTAMIA 1916-17 PORTION' [‎7v] (19/1458)

Content

The volume comprises mainly printed correspondence, telegrams, summaries, printed reports, notes, receipts, statistical tables, and other papers concerning miscellaneous matters relating to Mesopotamia, including Basra, and also Bahrain.

The papers notably cover:

• The Iraq Occupied Territories code, 1915 (folios 672-722)
• Notes by Gertrude Bell on the administration of justice, tribal Sayyids, claims for compensation, and the Shia in Iraq
• Bahrain and its trade with the Arabian hinterland
• The interests of the Shaikh of Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and the Shaikh of Kuwait in the Iraq Occupied Territories
• 'Orders for the Trial of Inhabitants of the Country' (folio 182)
• Attitude of the Basra notables.

The principal correspondents are: Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer in Charge, Iraq Section; Gertrude Bell, Political Officer; the Officer in Charge, Cairo Section, Eastern Bureau; Director Military Intelligence, Cairo; the General Officer Commanding, Indian Expeditiory Force D; the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla.

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 the year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format

1 volume (723 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 3540 (Mespotamia: miscellaneous papers) consists of six volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/617-622. The volumes are divided into six parts with each part comprising one volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 725; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-723; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. There are multiple additional mixed foliation/pagination sequences. There is one foliation anomaly, f 360a.

Written in

English in Latin script

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