File 1283/1913 Pt 4 'Mesopotamia Trade British Trade Corporation Mission’

Content

Part 4 of the volume (folios 138-264) contains exchanges of correspondence, mainly between officials at the 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. , the Foreign Office and the Department of Overseas Trade in London. They discuss whether or not to approve proposals submitted to them by the British Trade Corporation, the Scottish Mesopotamia Corporation Limited and several other British companies who wished to send trade missions to Baghdad, Basra and elsewhere in the region, to investigate commercial opportunities.

Extent and format

126 folios

It is part of

File 1283/1913 Pts 4 & 5 'MESOPOT: - TRADE. TRADE CORPORATION MISSION. TRADE REPORT'

536 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/368

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/368/1

Former external reference(s)

P 1283/1913 Pt 4

History of this record

Date(s)

28 May 1918-8 Apr 1920 (CE, Gregorian)

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