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PZ 6642/35 Supply of certain War Office and Survey of India maps to the government of Iraq for reprinting in Arabic [‎16r] (31/50)

The record is made up of 1 file (25 folios). It was created in Aug 1935-May 1936. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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In any further communication
on this subject, please “quote
no-L 541/260/405 l
anfl address—
not to any person by name
but to— ^
? “ The Under-Secretary of State,”
Foreign Office,
London, S.W.l.
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Foreign Office.
S.W.l.
Sir,
14th February, 1936,
With reference to Foreign Office letters Nos.L 599^260/105
an ^ ^ 7120/ 260/405 of the 18th September and the 22nd
No vember la st respectively, relative to the supply to the
Iraqi Government of drawings of certain maps prepared by the
Geographical Section of the War Office and by the Survey
Department of the Government of India, I am directed by
Mr. Secretary Eden to state, for the information of the
Secretary of State for India, that in response to the
application which His Majesty’s Ambassador at Bagdad submitted
to the Government of India for the supply of the maps shewn
on the enclosed list. His Excellency has been informed that,
with the exception qf sheets 10B and 100, the responsibility
for the maps had been transferred to the War Office to whom
the request of the Iraqi Government had accordingly been
communicated.
2. The Government of India did not, however, inform
His Excellency of the terms on which they would be prepared
to supply the Iraqi Government with impressions of the sheets
10B and 100, and I am therefore to request that, should the
Marquess of Zetland see no objection, steps may be taken to
expedite a decision with regard to these two sheets.
3. A copy is enclosed of a letter which has been
addressed/
The Under Secretary of State
India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .

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The file consists of correspondence regarding the supply of certain War Office and Survey of India maps to the Government of Iraq for reprinting in Arabic. It includes a list of maps to be reprinted.

The main correspondents include: the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Bagdad [Baghdad]; the British Embassy, Bagdad; HM Ambassador, Bagdad; the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; the War Office; and the Foreign Office.

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1 file (25 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 1, and terminates at f 25, it is the third file in a larger physical volume, each file has its own foliation sequence; these numbers are written in pencil, 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.

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PZ 6642/35 Supply of certain War Office and Survey of India maps to the government of Iraq for reprinting in Arabic [‎16r] (31/50), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/180, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100041003669.0x000020> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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