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File 3104/1915 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: trade with Baghdad’ [18r] (40/382)
The record is made up of 1 volume (187 folios). It was created in 22 Mar 1917-31 Dec 1917. It was written in English and French. 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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1 r
Any further communication should be
addressed to--
THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY,
BOARD OF TRADE,
(COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT),
GWYDYR HOUSE,
at the address given opposite.
The following letter and number should
be quoted:—
0. 15344
WHITEHALL,
LONDON, S.W.1.
Telephone No.: 3840 Victoria-
17th December, 1917
Gentlemen
member for
ig a shipment
s been shipped
id transhipment
•anch. The
Saleh S.
With reference to your tao letters of the 11th
December relative to certain shipments of cotton in respect
of ’V ich documents are to be delivered in Basra to lx.Saleh
3. Sassoon of Bagdad, I am directed by the Board of Trade to
point out that 1 r. Sassoon is not included among the Bagdad
finns named in your 1etters of the 18th September and
29th September and that his name does not appear to have
been previously submitted by you to this Department.
The Board will offer no objection to your
financing shipments to lx. Saleh S. Sassoon, but I am to
( 'efor to the letter C.14030 which was addressed to you from
t is Department on the 14th Beptanber and to say that you
should in future obtain the approval of this Department before
dealing directly or indirectly with any Bagdad finns other
than those whose names have been already approved by the
Board for the purpose.
member for
ig a shipment
5 been shipped
id transhipment
’anch. The
Saleh S.
pssrs.The Eastern Bank Ltd.,
4 Cr * uare.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant
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Papers relating to trade between Baghdad and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and Great Britain, in the wake of Britain’s military invasion and occupation of Mesopotamia during the First World War. Subjects covered include: the resumption of trade between Britain and Baghdad; enquiries made to the British Government by British firms asking if they may resume trade to and from Mesopotamia; enquiries relating to goods seized and condemned by the Prize Court; the resumption of trading at Baghdad by a number of firms ‘approved’ by the British Government’s Board of Trade; enquiries by commercial firms relating to goods looted or destroyed during the military invasion of Mesopotamia. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Foreign Office; 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 and Political Department of the Government of India; Henry Fountain of the Commercial Department of the Board of Trade.
The file includes a single item of correspondence in French: a copy of a telegram from the Persian Consul General in Baghdad (f 144).
The file 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 year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (187 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 3104 (German War: conquered territory, Mesopotamia: trade) consists of 9 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/564-572. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 to 8 comprising one volume each, and parts 9 and 10 comprising the last 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 189; 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.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/566
- Title
- File 3104/1915 Pt 3 ‘Mesopotamia: trade with Baghdad’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:4v, 6r:9v, 11r:11v, 13r:14v, 16r:16v, 18r:19v, 21r:23v, 26r:27v, 29r:31v, 33r:37v, 39r:43v, 47r:49v, 61r:63v, 66r:76v, 81r:88v, 90r:90v, 92r:94v, 96r:141v, 145r:151v, 153r:171v, 173r:176v, 178r:186v, 188r:188v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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