This Guide covers the majority of the collections held in the Middle East Centre Archive. Atpresent it does not cover collections that consist only of photographs. For example the Archiveholds a substantial Freya Stark photographic collection.
Where a more detailed description of a collection exists, this is indicated in this Guide by theword ‘Handlist’. If a collection holds photographs this is indicated at the end of the descriptionby ‘Photographic collection’.
Please note that uncatalogued material appears at the end of this Guide.
Please note TS means typescript. MS means manuscript i.e. handwritten.
ADAMSON, Richard. GB165-0001Accounts by a Palestine Police Officer of the Cairo conspiracy trial in 1919 and the riots inJerusalem, Easter 1920. 7 sheets. Handlist
ADDISON, Herbert. GB165-0002Privately printed monograph The pleasures of Anglo-Egyptian cooperation, 1972; critique ofJacques Berque’s Egypt; imperialism and revolution, 1973; memo by J. Cryer on Britishschoolmasters in Egypt; papers relating to the Cairo Scientific Society 1898-1931; lists of BritishOfficials in the Egyptian service 1926-45; material relating to the development of the Helwan andMaadi 1920s-50s; press-cuttings and pamphlets on Egypt 1938-49; material relating to the Anglo-Egyptian Union 1942-49. 1 box. Handlist
ALLARD, W. (b. 1889). GB165-0003Biographical note; letter to A.L. Odell, 29 November 1967, on British nationals seconded to workunder the Egyptian Government. 3 sheets. Handlist
ALLEN, Rt. Revd. Geoffrey Francis, Bishop in Egypt. (1902-82). GB165-0004Collection of Diocesan Reviews for Egypt and Sudan 1947-52. 1 box. Handlist
ALLENBY, Field Marshal Sir Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st Viscount Allenby of Megiddo. (1861-1936). GB165-0005Photocopies of papers relating to the Middle East including: Palestine campaign - extracts fromletters to his wife up to and including the capture of Aleppo (1918) and his visit in February 1919to Istanbul; letters and reports by eyewitnesses of the same period; letters from H. Chauvel; lettersto Sir Herbert Samuel, 1920-25; letter to Sir William Hayter 6 May 1924 on Saad Zaghlul; letterselicited by Wavell for his “Egypt” volume; comments, mainly by Gerald Delany, on Wavell'sAllenby in Egypt. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
AMAZALAK, Mayer H. and AMAZALAK, J.B. GB165-0007Two poems on the coronation of Edward VII, printed Jaffa, 1902. 2 sheets. Handlist
AMOS, Sir (Percy) Maurice (Maclardie) Sheldon. (1872-1940). GB165-0008Copy of letter to Sheldon Amos, 12 Nov. 1905, from Graham Wallas, on nascent nationalism inthe Middle East. 1 sheet. Handlist
ANCKETILL, Matthew David. GB165-0009Photocopied TS of Strange Destiny unpublished biography of Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842),artist, traveller and diplomat in Russia and Persia. 2 boxes. Handlist
ANTONIUS, George. (1892-1941). GB165-0011Reports and letters when Senior Associate in the Middle East of the Institute of Current WorldAffairs on Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Iraq 1930-39, including notes on the case of TahaHussein, 1932, and on Saiyid Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani and Shaikh Muhammad ‘Abduh. 128sheets. Handlist
ARAB BULLETIN. GB165-0012Nos. 1-74 (microfilm); nos. 41-113 with supplements (1916-19). 1 reel; 1 box.
ARAB DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY. GB165-0324Papers relating to the Arab Development Society, set up by Musa Alami in 1949 near Jericho;obituaries of Musa Alami. 1 box. Photographic collection.
ARAMCO. GB165-0013Report, 1961, by William Mulligan on the visit of King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud to ARAMCO,January 1947. 1 vol.; 2 sheets.
ARCHIBALD, S.G. GB165-0014Typescript proceedings of the “Commission de Réforme du Code de Procédure Civile Indigène”1914, and “Commission des Capitulations” 1918, of the Government of Egypt, with associatedmaterial. 3 boxes. Handlist.
ARDAGH, Col. Sir John Charles. (1840-1907). GB165-0015Diaries of travel 1875-86, comprising Italy, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Rumania, Asia Minor,Caucasus, Russia, Egypt, Sudan, Palestine, (privately printed); 3 letters, March 1908, from Susan,Countess of Malmesbury to Sir William Everett. 1 vol.; 3 sheets.
AREF EL-AREF. (1892-1973). GB165-0016TS diaries (in Arabic): Amman diary, 1926-28; Gaza diary, July 1939-June 1940. 1 box.
BAIRD, Nina Isabel. (d.1919). GB165-0017Papers and photographs relating to Nina Baird’s work with the Red Cross, at Cairo Citadel, andamong the Bedouin at Amira, 1915-19. 7 sheets; 22 prints.
Miscellaneous letters and papers relating to the Balfour Declaration, 1917, assembled byElizabeth Monroe. 12 sheets; 1 item.
BARBOUR, Nevill. (1895-1974). GB165-0019Copies of articles and broadcasts on the Middle East and North Africa, Zionism, the Arabiclanguage etc. , 1936-63, with an English translation of part of the memoirs of Sidqi Pasha; reporton Syria and Palestine presented by M. Etienne Flandin to the “Group senatorial pour la defénsedes interêts français à l’étranger”; pamphlet entitled “The Independence of Egypt” by a memberof the Egyptian delegation to London, January 1921; papers and correspondence relating to TaufiqHakim’s novel The Return of the Spirit, 1933-37; correspondence with Lt. Gen. Sir GeorgeMacMunn regarding the latter’s article on Palestine, “Nisi Dominus”1950-51. 5 boxes. Handlist.
BAUER, Yehuda. (b.1926). GB165-0021Letter to ‘Leni’ dated 22 Sept. 1962 with descriptive lists of organisations dealing with Jewishrefugees between 1933 and 1948. 2 sheets.
BARING, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer. (1841-1917). GB165-0020BARING, Rowland Thomas, 2nd Earl of Cromer. (1877-1953).Letters to Harry and Clara Boyle, 1914 & 1929-36; material for the Marquess of Zetland’s
biography Cromer. 1 box. Handlist.
BEASLEY, Dr. Ina M. , née Girdwood. (1898-1995). GB165-0022Minutes of Gordon Memorial College Council, 1944-48; material on educational expansion inSudan: Southern Sudan, 1946-50; Northern Sudan, 1947-56. 1 box.
BELL, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian. (1868-1926). GB165-0023Copy of travel diary of a journey to Hayyil, Jan.-May 1914; letters to Humphrey Bowman, 1920-25, and Lord Allenby,13 May 1920; C. J. Edmonds’ lecture “Gertrude Bell in the Near andMiddle East”; W.C. Donkin’s catalogue, The letters and papers of Gertrude Bell, Newcastle,1966. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BENNETT, Arthur L. GB165-0024Papers as R.A.F. member of Combined UK/US/Iranian team seconded to central staff of theImperial Iranian Armed Forces, 1970-72, including the team’s report on the Joint College of theArmed Forces, Tehran, and a military training exercise. 1 box. Handlist.
BENTWICH, Norman de Mattos. (1882-1971). GB165-0025Letters in Arabic and English received during his service as Legal Secretary to the Governmentof Palestine, 1921-29; papers on legal administration under the Palestine and Iraq Mandates;papers re. his work in Ethiopia, 1943; Ethiopia and her claim to Eritrea and Somalia, FalashaJews, etc. 1 box.
BESLEY, Judge Ernest Francis Withers. (1891-1965). GB165-0026Lecture on the judicial system in Egypt, 21 Feb. 1935; record of judgement in a test case onBritish nationality, 1940. 21 sheets.
BESSE, ANTONIN GB165-0353Illustrated book commissioned by Antonin Besse on traditional boats in Aden entitled ‘Lesderniers boutres d’Aden’ 1984. 1 volume
BIRDWOOD, Field Marshal Sir William Riddell, 1st Baron Birdwood. (1865-1951).GB165-0028
Comments and marginal notes on P.G. Elgood’s The Army in Egypt1914-18. 23 sheets.
BLATCHFORD, Edward Williams. (1868-1956). GB165-0029Obituary notices of E.W. Blatchford, US Vice-Consul in Jerusalem, 1930-48, with a coveringletter to Humphrey Bowman from Blatchford’s cousin Grace Wilson. 4 sheets.
BLENKINSOP, Frederick William Geoffrey. (1907-46). GB165-0030Private memo on the Arab-Zionist conflict, 2 November 1944. 6 sheets.
BLYTH, Miss Estelle. (1881-1983). GB165-0031Papers relating to her father the Rt. Revd. G.F. Popham Blyth, Bishop in Jerusalem; copy of TheAll Highest goes to Jerusalem, being the diary of the German Emperor’s journey to the HolyLand, London, 1918; House of Lords Debates, notes, policy statements, etc. on Palestine 1920-39,with a few press cuttings. 1 box. Photographic collection.
BOUSTEAD, Col. John Edmund Hugh. (1895-1980). GB165-0032“Report on the Sudan Defence Force” 1940-41; memo on agricultural development in E. Aden,1949-58; “Review of the progress and development department Muscat and Oman” 1958-61; draftautobiography. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BOWEN, H.C. GB165-0033MS of unpublished book on Nizam ul-Mulk; notes on the Arabs in Spain and Sicily, 8-11thcenturies; MS of 6 lectures on the Arab conquest on N. Africa and Spain; sources for a historyof Muslims in Europe; miscellaneous notes on various aspects of Islamic history; notes on thehistory of the Ottoman Empire. 5 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BOWMAN, Humphrey Ernest. (1879-1965). GB165-0034Diaries 1903-49, including Egypt 1903-11, Sudan 1911-14, Iraq 1918-20, Palestine 1921-37;personal letters, mostly from Sir Hugh Bell and Sir Ronald Storrs, 1910-54; appointment asDirector of Education, Mesopotamia, 1917-20; offers of service in Egyptian Ministry ofEducation, 1919-20; secondment to Government of Palestine, 1920; correspondence 1922-25 withthe Egyptian Government re. pension; Palestine Royal Commission on Education - miscellaneouspapers; personal letters to parents; lectures and miscellanea about General Gordon; lectures andbook reviews; testimonials, etc.; correspondence with High Commissioner, Palestine, 1934-36;correspondence re. retirement, 1937. 8 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
BOYLE, Harry. (1863-1937). GB165-0035Correspondence with his wife and mother, 1884-1923; miscellaneous personal papers; letters toLord Rennell of Rodd, 11 Oct. 1902 and 21 April 1907; memo of 1905 on the historic backgroundof the British occupation of Egypt; confidential despatch to Sir Edward Grey, 16 August 1908;Milner Mission, 1921: letters and a memo. 4 boxes. Handlist.
BRASSEY GOTTLIEB, H. GB165-0036Letter to ‘John’ of 19 August 1969 giving his impressions of T.E. Lawrence. 3 sheets.
BRIAN LAPPING ASSOCIATES LTD: THE FIFTY YEARS WAR: ISRAEL AND THEARABS GB165-0346Transcripts of research interviews made during the production of the television series ‘The FiftyYears War: Israel and the Arabs’ which was produced for BBC Television by Brian LappingAssociates Ltd and broadcast in 1998. Key Israeli, Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian, Egyptian,Syrian, Russian and American participants were interviewed. 11 boxes. Handlist.
BRIDGEMAN, Hon. Geoffrey John Orlando. (1898-1974). GB165-0037Brief note of his eyewitness account of the capture of Jerusalem, 1917. 1 sheet.
BRITISH DIPLOMATIC PERSPECTIVES ON THE MIDDLE EASTGB165-0321
TS texts of, or notes for, lectures in the series “British Diplomatic Perspectives on the MiddleEast” given at the Middle East Centre, 15 October-3 December 1999 by Sir James Craig, SirMarrack Goulding, Sir John Coles, Hon. Ivor Lucas, Christopher Long, Sir Alan Munro, LordWright of Richmond, and Sir David Gore-Booth, giving their personal reflections on Britishdiplomacy in the Middle East during their years of service. 1 box.
BROADHURST, Brig. Ronald Joseph Callender. (b. 1906). GB165-0038Papers on customs matters and oil prospection in Egypt, 1886-87; MS diary of the NileExpedition of 1889 by an unnamed soldier of the 86th Foot, with cuttings of the period; reportsof handling of smugglers by the Egyptian Coast Guard Service, 1889-90. 1 box.
BRUCE OF KINNAIRD, James. (1730-1794). GB165-0039Article by Sir Duncan Cumming in the Geographical Journal 137, I, 1971: “Seven unpublishedletters of James Bruce of Kinnaird”. 1 vol.
BRUNTON, Capt. Chisholm Dunbar. (b.1887). GB165-0040“Who's Who” in Damascus, 1919; papers on the political situation in Palestine, 1920-21; proposalfor a Jordan “Reserve Force” 11 September 1920; article by Uriel Dann “The Beginning of theArab Legion” reprinted from Middle Eastern Studies. 33 sheets; 2 items.
BRYCE, James, Viscount Bryce. (1838-1922). GB165-0041Three letters relating to the problem of introducing Jewish settlers into Palestine, 1915-19. 7sheets.
BULLARD, Sir Reader William. (1885-1976). GB165-0042Circular letters to his family, 1923-25 & 1934-45; material for memoirs, The Camels Must Go;an account of recruitment to the Levant Consular Service and other writings. 3 boxes. Handlist.
CAFFERATA, Col. Raymond Oswald. (1897-1966). GB165-0044Photocopies of press-cuttings and notes on the life of Col. R.O. Cafferata, Palestine Police 1922-48. 54 sheets
CAIRO CONFERENCE 1921. GB165-0045Photocopies of selected reports, minutes, agenda, etc. for the Cairo Conference on Middle EasternAffairs, March 1921 1 box.
CAIRO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. GB165-0046Minute books, 1898-1950; Cairo Scientific Journal (containing much material on Nile waters)vols. 1-14, 1906-10. 3 boxes.
CAMERON WATT, Prof. Donald. (b. 1928) GB165-0296Press-cutting collection from British newspapers covering: oil; the Arabian peninsula; MiddleEast (in general); Egypt; Cyprus; Malta; Eisenhower Doctrine; Iran; Lebanon; Libya; IraqRevolution; Israel; Jordan; Syria; Turkey; Sudan; French North Africa; Somaliland; the SuezCrisis; some maps. 11 boxes. Handlist
CAMPBELL, T.J. GB165-0047Descriptive notes by T.J. Campbell of the Survey Department of Egypt on the district lyingbetween the Mediterranean and Lake Burollos, Lower Egypt, c.1912. 4 sheets.
CARLETON, Dr. Alford. GB165-0048Correspondence with the Bishop in Jerusalem,1941, and Gen. Sir Maitland Wilson,1942-48, onthe situation in Vichy Syria. 24 sheets.
CARVER, P. GB165-0049Photocopy of a lecture of 15 Sept. 1927 on the cotton industry in Egypt. 10 sheets.
CASSELS, Gervase de la Poer. (1915-91). GB165-0050Memoir, as Deputy Director of UNWRA in Jordan, of the Six Day War, 1967; personal accountof his involvement in the Libyan federal elections, 1951-52. 2 folders.
CHANCELLOR, Sir John Robert. (1870-1952). GB165-0051Proclamation of 1 Sept. 1929 re. the Wailing Wall riots. Copies in English, Arabic and Hebrewand a photocopy of a letter from J.R. Chancellor to Lord Stamfordham (27 May 1930) intendedas a private letter to King George V. The letter expresses Chancellor’s views concerningrestriction of Jewish immigration, sales of Arab land, the attitude of both Jews and Arabs towardthe mandate in Palestine and his recommendation as to policy and course of action Britain shouldtake in the light of his assessment of the situation in Palestine. 2 folders. Handlist.
CHATHAM HOUSE. GB165-0052Royal Institute of International Affairs. Mediterranean Study Group Reports 1-27, 31-44, 1956-57; agendas of meetings and discussion notes, 1956-57; draft report; correspondence, notes,memoranda 1956-57; D. Rockefeller: “Our stake in the Middle East”; All Soul’s Group: reportof a meeting, February 8-9 1958. 1 box.
CHAVASSE, Rev. Evelyn (1906-1991) and CHAVASSE, Timothy. GB165-0053Two eye-witness accounts of the EOKA B coup against President Makarios of 15 July 1974, andthe subsequent Turkish invasion of 26 July 1974. 20 sheets.
CHEETHAM, Sir Milne. (1869-1938). GB165-0055Private letters and telegrams to Sir Arthur Nicolson, Sir Louis Mallet, Sir Eldon Gorst and LordKitchener on British policy in Egypt, 1910-14; letters from R.S. Patterson, Sir R. Graham, LordsAllenby and Milner relating to Egypt, 1919-20. 1 box.
CHIROL, Sir (Ignatius) Valentine. (1852-1929). GB165-0056Letter to [Sir Hugh] Bell, 1 March 1920, and memo on Egyptian nationalism, 1920. 14 sheets.
CLAYTON, Brig.-General Sir Gilbert Falkingham. (1875-1929). GB165-0057Photocopy of letter to Sir Reginald Wingate, 3 August 1916, on current situation in Cairo. 10sheets.
CLAYTON, Brig. Sir Iltyd Nicholl. (1886-1955). GB165-0058Memoirs of the siege of Kufa, by Major Norbury; Palestine Command Papers (BalfourDeclaration to 1939, bound in hard covers); MS of partial memoirs to 1929; copy of Albert.Hourani’s “Great Britain and Arab nationalism, 1943”; paper “A future for Palestine” with relatedcorrespondence and other correspondence on Palestine, 1944 and later; papers on Lebanon, byCharles Malik, 1944; Musa Alami’s Land Development Scheme, with related correspondence,1946; typescript of Sir G.F. Clayton's Diary of a mission to Ibn Saud; anon. typescript “Abackground to British Council work in Egypt”; paper “Islam”; review of Chaim Weizmann’sTrial and Error. 2 boxes.
CLEAVER, Percy (1915-1998) GB165-0358Recruitment film for the Palestine Police, not dated c1946. The commentary for the film waswritten by Rex Keating. Photocopies of letters from Percy Cleaver to his aunt and uncle Feb1936-June 1938. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection. Please contact the Archivist in advanceto arrange a viewing of the film.
CLIVE, Nigel David. (b. 1917). GB165-0059Photocopies of fragments of a diary kept April-June, 1948 in Palestine; situation reports fromHaifa, etc. dated June, 1948; letter, 23 October 1976, outlining his Palestine connection. 40sheets.
COATE, Winifred A. (1893-1977). GB165-0060Letter to Stewart Perowne, 5 July 1971, on conditions in Jordan in 1971. 1 sheet.[Further papers in Jerusalem & the East Mission collection.]
COGHILL, Sir (Marmaduke Nevill) Patrick (Somerville), 6th Baronet. (1896-1981).GB165-0061
Diary 1941-45, and autobiography “Before I forget”. 1 box. Photographic collection.
COLLARD, J. GB165-0062Report on Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, Cyrenaica 14 October 1941-31 January
1942 by Brig. S.H. Longrigg; reports and memoranda on Cyrenaica, 1943-45; Tripolitania, 1943-44. 1 box. Handlist.
COOPER, Derek and Pamela GB165-0363Beirut Diary 1 July – 13 Aug 1982 by Derek Cooper, Beirut Diary 1 July – 13 Aug 1982 byPamela Cooper, photocopy of a letter of thanks for good service from RB Spicer (InspectorGeneral, Palestine Police) to GD Cooper (Special Constable Palestine Police) 4 Dec 1933,Photocopy of the article ‘Palestine Paradox by Major E.M. Turnbull. The Life Guards’ in theHousehold Brigade Magazine, Spring 1948, photocopy of the article ‘Evacuation of Palestine,May, 1948 By Capt D.L.S. Hodson, The Life Guards’ in the Household Brigade Magazine,Autumn 1948. 1 box.
COOTE, Sir Eyre. see CRAMER-ROBERTS, F.
CONTENT PRODUCTIONS LTD: ‘Promises & Betrayals: Britain and the Struggle for theHoly Land’ GB165-0352
Research interviews and the text of the documentary ‘Promises & Betrayals: Britain and theStruggle for the Holy Land’. The documentary considers the conflicting promises made by Britainduring the First World War such as the Balfour Declaration, Sykes-Picot agreement and theAnglo-French Declaration and the consequences of these promises. The academics interviewedinclude Youssef Choueiri, Christopher Coker, Fred Halliday, Mark Levene, Dominic Lieven, AviShlaim and the former British Ambassador to Egypt, Sir Michael Weir.1 box. Handlist.
CORKILL, Dr. Norman Lace. (1898-1966). GB165-0063Papers on health in Iran, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia; health conditions of certain Bedouin tribes;notes on tribes in Eastern Aden protectorate,1927-64; nutritional economic survey of wartimePalestine, 1942-43; nutritional state of the Palestine refugees in the spring of 1951;autobiographical fragment. 2 boxes. Photographic collection.
CORNWALLIS, Sir Kinahan. (1883-1959). GB165-0064Photocopy of letter,17 May 1939, to Lord Wavell on Allenby-Feisal interview in Damascus of3 October 1918; order of service for memorial service for King Feisal II, the Crown Prince of Iraqand General Nuri Al Said, 30 July 1958; letter, 24 August 1958, to Stewart Perowne about eventsin Iraq. 4 sheets; 1 item.
COWELL, Hubert Russell. (1877-1967). GB165-0065Note on the organisation of war savings, 1939-45 in the British colonies and Palestine. 6 sheets.
COX, Sir Percy Zachariah. (1864-1937) GB165-0341Correspondence, mainly incoming, covering Sir Percy Cox’s career between 1895 and 1937;some letters between Gertrude Bell and Arthur Hirtzel 1917-1920; correspondence with Lady Cox1930s-1940s. 2 boxes. Handlist.
CRAMER-ROBERTS, Frank William. (d.1943). GB165-0066Material for an unfinished book on Abercrombie’s 1801 campaign in Egypt including letters from
Sir Eyre Coote to Prince William of Gloucester. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
CRANE, Charles Richard. (1858-1939). GB165-0067Photocopies of letters from Arabia, winter 1926-27; photocopied extracts from Jidda diary, 1931;extracts from unpublished, uncompleted MS by Edgar Snow of a biography of Crane. 59 sheets.
CROSSMAN, Richard Howard Stafford. (1907-1974). GB165-0068Records, cuttings, letters, drafts, etc. on the problems of the Anglo-American Committee andUNSCOP, 1946-47, and the subsequent recognition of Israel; 13 private letters to Mrs. ZitaCrossman from Palestine, 1946-47, including one on a visit to Chaim Weizmann. 1 box. Photographic collection.
CROWDY, Major J.D. (d. 1920). GB165-0069Four letter books amounting to a diary of his service in the Mesopotamia campaign from Basra,January 1916 to Bombay, December 1918, with maps. 1 box.
CROWE, Sir Colin Tradescant. (1913-89). GB165-0070TS account of the restoration of relations between the United Kingdom and the United ArabRepublic after the Suez episode, 1957-1961. 230 sheets.
CROWE, Sibyl. (1908-93). GB165-0071“Les droits électoraux des indigènes musulmans d’Algérie”, typescript report on the legal statusand rights of the indigenous Moslem population of Algeria with a review of various proposals forreform, 9 August 1939, in French. 55 sheets.Presscuttings covering Morocco 1948-56, Tunisia 1946-53, French North Africa (in general)1944-52 and Middle East (in general) 1944-52. 13 boxes.
CUNNINGHAM, General Sir Alan Gordon. (1887-1983). GB165-0072Official papers and telegrams from his period of office as High Commissioner, Palestine, 1945-48. 6 boxes. Handlist.
DALE, Thomas. GB165-0073Notes by the Secretary of the Delta Land Investment Co. Ltd. on land development, etc. at Maadiduring his period of office in Egypt (pre-World War I to World War II); letter to Andrew Holden,8 May 1970. 10 sheets.
DANN, Uriel. (1922-91). GB165-0074Photocopy of TS article “The background to the beginnings of the Arab Legion” with commentsby F.G. Peake, c.1969. 24 sheets.
D’ARCY, Lt. Gen. John Conyers. (1894-1966). GB165-0075Photocopies of letters to Gen. D’Arcy from Lord Gort,13 August 1945; Sir John Glubb, 4December 1945, 12 March 1946 and 21 June 1948; Lt.-Gen. Sir E.H. Barker, 31 May 1946, 2 &29 July 1946; Sir John Shaw, 15 June 1946; translation of Arabic speech by a representative ofthe Jordanian Army on D’Arcy's departure. 17 sheets.
TS of an interview given by Davies to Professor Gabriel Warburg, 28 September 1970, on hiscareer in the Sudan Political Service. 12 sheets.
DAWKINS, J.M. GB165-0077Presscutting volumes including cuttings from 1875, 1906-08, 1910-18, 1920-26, 1929 and 1939,covering Persia, the Ottoman Empire and North Africa, the progress of the First World War, theConsular Service, foreign affairs in general, Dawkins’ family, and Professor E.G. Browne. 4 vols.
DE BUNSEN, Sir Maurice William Ernest. (1852-1932). GB165-0078Photocopy of Bunsen Committee report on Asiatic Turkey, 1915. (PRO: CAB 42/3/12). 32sheets.
DEEDES, Brigadier-General Sir Wyndham Henry. (1883-1956). GB165-0079Photocopied letters home from service in the Ottoman Gendarmerie, Gallipoli and Palestinecampaigns; letters while Director of Public Security, Egypt, 1919-20; a few letters received andsent during his term in Palestine, 1920-23 and his subsequent relations with the Zionists. 2 boxes.
DEHQANI-TAFTI, Rt. Revd. Hassan Barnaba. (b. 1920). GB165-0080Papers as President-Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, 1976-86. 2 boxes.
DEIGHTON, H. S. GB165-0081TS extracts from the 1882 diary of Lady Anne Blunt (copy of MS in the British Library);broadcast of 5 February 1949 “Palestine and the Powers”; TS extracts from papers by A.H.T.Chisholm on the Cairo Arab Petroleum Congress, 1959. 79 sheets.
DE LACY, James Percival (1906-87). GB165-0082MS notes on his service with the Northern Frontier Division, Palestine Police, 1937-39. 3 sheets.
DELANY, Gerald. (1885-1974). GB165-0083Note on J.S. Spender’s contribution to the Egyptian settlement, 1921; undated notes on LordLloyd, Saad Zaghlul, Nokrashy Pasha; MS of the final chapter of P.G. Elgood’s history of Egypt,written during World War II and published in Arabic but never in English; memo on nationalismand the peasantry in Egypt; article in the Spectator, 2 March 1945, on the murder of AhmedMaher Pasha; letters from 1st Earl Wavell on his life of Lord Allenby; letters from 2nd EarlWavell on the life of his father; letter to 2nd Earl Wavell, 27 July 1953, on the political situationin Egypt during Wavell’s period of command in World War II. 2 folders.
DICKSON, Arthur G.M. GB165-0084Memoirs of his career as a banker in the Middle East and elsewhere, 1890-1950. 12 sheets.
DICKSON, Lt.-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick. (1881-1959). GB165-0085Childhood; letters from regiment in Ireland,1903; Gilgit and Bikaner,1912-14: letters to mother;Mesopotamia campaign: letters to mother,1914-15; letters home,1915; letters from D. force, 1915-16; miscellaneous career papers; Suk esh-Shuyukh: letters to mother,1915-18; pacification ofMuntafik,1918-19; Iraq, 1917-19: events in Nasiriyeh, conditions of service, administration inBasra and Baghdad vilayets; administration reports of the Kuwait Political Agency, 1918, 1921-
32; Bahrain, 1920 - Ibn Saud; diaries of mission in Bahrain, 1919-22; private letters of politicalinterest, mostly from Iraq and the Gulf to India, 1920s (including Sir Percy Cox, A.T. Wilson,Philby, Bertram Thomas); reports from Hillah, 1921-22; Ojair conference papers, 1922; Kuwaitand the desert: articles and press-cuttings,1931-48; Kuwait: notes on trade 1932-33, and tradesupplies 1942; Kuwait diaries, 1937-58; Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and U.K.: treaties and conventions;notes on Kuwait/Iraq boundaries, 1938; notes for a biography; presscuttings on the Middle East1937-41 & 53-55. 17 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
DICKSON, John. (1847-1906). GB165-0086Correspondence on travel, archaeology, etc. with Gertrude Bell and others, 1876-1906; diarieskept as Consul in Damascus, 1882-88; family letters, 19th cent.; correspondence while ConsulGeneral at Jerusalem, 1892-1906; letters from the Beirut, Damascus, and Jerusalem consulates,1890s and 1900s. 3 boxes. Handlist.
DICKSON, Dame Violet Penelope. (1896-1991). GB165-0364Photocopy of a TS account of Violet Dickson’s family history; MS description of eachphotograph album; 12 photograph albums, 1956-1981, mainly covering Kuwait but also includinga small amount of photographs taken in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Sharjah, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Yemen as well as photographs of European countries and Africa. 12 Albumsand 13 sheets. Handlist.
DIGBY EL MEZRAB, Jane Elizabeth, formerly Lady Ellenborough. (1807-1881)GB165-0087
Microfilm copy of housebook and accounts, Damascus, 1861-70. 1 reel.
DIXON, Catherine J. GB165-0088MS diary 25 August-3 September “Adventures of four women who visited Petra in 1925”,illustrated with 46 black and white photographs, giving an account of the journey from Jerusalemto Petra and back. 1 vol.
DOBBS, Sir Henry Robert. (1871-1934). GB165-0089TS text of memorial to Sir Henry Dobbs in the English church in Baghdad. 2 sheets.
DOUGHTY WYLIE, Col. Charles Hotham Montagu. (1868-1915). GB165-0090TS extracts from letters to Gertrude Bell 1913-15, covering the conference on Albania, 1913,negotiations re Lake Tsana, Abyssinia, 1914. 15 sheets.
DOWNIE, Sir Harold Frederick. (1889-1966). GB165-0091TS transcript of a diary covering Downie’s wartime service in Mesopotamia, January-June 1916. 21 sheets.
DOWSON, Sir Ernest MacLeod. (1876-1950). GB165-0092Letter, 25 September 1937, to F.M. Edwards on land taxation in Palestine. 2 sheets.
DOYLE, Denis E. (1911-94). GB165-0093Photocopies of letters, 1936-43, to his mother, Grace Doyle, written while working for Reuter’sCommercial Information Service in Palestine, and war service in the Royal Army Service Corps.
DRUMMOND, Antony John-Deane-. (b.1917) GB165-0340OMAN ARCHIVE: Typescript chapter entitled ‘22 Special Air Service Operations in Muscat &Oman 1958/59’ with accompanying photographs and sketches, also including a photocopy of anaccount of the military operation in Oman in The Times April 9 1959. Handlist. 1 box
DUNLOP-SMITH, Lt.-Col. Sir James Robert. (1858-1922). GB165-0094Photocopy of two accounts by the Revd.Hunter Smith of fighting at Gallipoli, July and September1915. 29 sheets.
EDMONDS, Cecil John. (1889-1979). GB165-0095Papers relating to his service in Iraq, 1915-45, including: papers on his service as AdministrativeInspector, 1922-24; Liaison Officer to the Mosul Commission, 1925-26; papers, correspondence,and maps relating to Edmond’s work in the consular service in North Persia, Iraq and Kurdistan;official reports 1910-46; tour notes and draft reports 1914-40s; topographical notes; notes on thetribes of Kurdistan; personal correspondence 1913-77; lectures and articles; large collection ofmaps; diaries 1912-1975; typescript memoirs “East & West of Zagros”. 28 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
EDWARDS, Francis M. (b. 1886). GB165-0096Papers on Egyptian rural problems and provincial taxation reports,1920s; reports on a visit toSaad Zaghlul in Upper Egypt, October 1921; essays on early Muslim travellers in the MiddleEast; book reviews; note on the title of the ruler of Muscat; account of a duck shoot in the Libyandesert; letter, 4 July 1959, from L. Lockhart about the Persian claim to Bahrain. 1 box.
EDWARDS, Stephen (1912-1997). GB165-0354Personal papers relating to Stephen Edwards’ service in the Palestine Police 1936-1948 consistingof his service record booklet and papers mainly relating to pay, conditions of service and the endof the mandate. 1 box. Photographic collection.
EGYPT. GB165-0325Photocopy of threatening leaflet addressed to British families in the Canal Zone signed“Defenders of Islam”, c.1950; photocopy of “List of papers of the ‘Urabi Revolution, 1881-82”in the archives of the Ministry of War, Cairo, n.d.; duplicated seminar programme “ The EgyptianArmy in modern and contemporary history” given by the Egyptian Army Club of the Ministry ofDefence War College, April 1981. 3 folders.
ELKINGTON, A.E.H. (d. 1974). GB165-0098Papers on economic conditions in Cyrenaica, 1943. 170 sheets; 1 item.
ELPHINSTON, Col. W.G. GB165-0320Papers of Col. W.G. Elphinston relating to the campaign in Palestine, 1917-18; reports andlectures on Kurdistan, 1919-48; lectures on Britain and the Middle East for the RAF Intelligence
EMERY, Miss Susanna Pearce. (1896-1986). GB165-0099MS letters written to her family during the course of her career as a teacher at Jerusalem Girls'College and Headmistress of the English High School, Haifa, 1919-30 & 1932-48; three TSvolumes of autobiography drawn from the letters. 3 boxes. Handlist.
EVERETT, Sir William. (1844-1908). GB165-0100Papers on his service as Military Consul at Erzerum 1879-85, including: diary, 1879-82; letters1886-88 from consulates at Erzerum, Diyarbekir, etc. following his return to England; maps ofthe Ottoman Empire. 4 boxes. Handlist.
FARADAY, John Alexander Mulloy. (1899-1986). GB165-0101Papers relating to the Safad disturbances of 1929 and the Jaffa riots of 1933. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
FARNALL, Harry de la Rosa Burrard. (1852-1929). GB165-0102Cartoon of Harry Farnall, Commissaire-Directeur à la Caisse de la Dette Publique, by Juan Sintesin the series “Les hommes du jour” in L'Egypte Nouvelle captioned “A qui puis-je encore fairedu bien?” 1 sheet.
FAROUK, King of Egypt. (1920-65). GB165-0103Copies of Empire News 12, 19, 26 October; 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November; 7, 14, 21, 28 Dec. 1952and 4, 11 January 1953 containing Farouk's own account of his decline and fall. 22 sheets.
FARRELL, Wilfrid Jerome. (1882-1960). GB165-0104Photocopy of memoirs, “Pedagogue’s progress: reminiscences of Mesopotamia, Transcaucasia,and Palestine.”; The Distribution of Educational Benefits in Palestine by Farrell, 1945. 185sheets; 1 item.
FEISAL, Emir of Hijaz (later King of Iraq). (1885-1933). GB165-0105Intelligence and other miscellaneous documents in Arabic and English, 1916-19, 1939, 1941,1965, including correspondence with Gen. Gouraud, Lord Allenby, Col. Joyce and others; detailsof Feisal’s visit to London 1933; copies of agreements with Dr. Weizmann, Akaba, June 1918and London, 3 Jan. 1919; copies of documents from the Syrian Archives on Feisal’s rule inDamascus, 1919-20. 1 box.
FLETCHER, Paul Duncan. (1917-78). GB165-0106“East of Aden. The Forties”: TS memoir by Mary Fletcher of Paul Fletcher’s service in theEastern Aden Protectorate, 1940-44, based on his official reports amd letters home, 1940-49. 74sheets.
FLETCHER-COOKE, Sir John. (1911-89). GB165-0107TS article “The Compulsive Cuppa” on his experience as a government officer in Palestine, 1946-48; note on Sir Henry Gurney; correspondence with Roger Owen and Elizabeth Monroe on hisservice in Palestine. 25 sheets.
FLINN, Walter Leonard. (1883-1969). GB165-0108Letter-books,1903-11, and notebook relating to his business as an importer of Persian carpets;memoirs of his business dealings, and of war service in the Ministry of Information. 1 box.
FORSTER, Dr. Elliot David. (b. 1905). GB165-0109Photocopies of diary and some copies of official reports relating to his work as a doctor in St.Luke’s Hospital, Hebron, 1936-40. 145 sheets.
FOSTER-TURNER, Frederick Wentworth. (1893-1989). GB165-0110Papers on town planning and public works in Palestine, 1933-4, with some personal papers anda small amount of material relating to Hong Kong, 1921-28 1 box.
FRANKFURTER, Felix. (1882-1965). GB165-0111Microfilm of papers, including correspondence with Amir Feisal and recommendation on Jewishsettlements in the Ottoman Empire relating to his project, as adviser to the Zionist Delegation atthe Paris Peace Conference, of a form of mandate for Palestine. 1 reel.
FRASER, Professor Thomas Howden. (1885-1975). GB165-0112Letters from Major-General Mohammed Neguib, 1953-75; inscribed copy of Herbert Addison’sTravelling with Artifex; certificates of Fraser’s awards and decorations; account of an excursionto the Wadi Natrun, 26-27 November 1925; account of a trip to Petra by car, 1931. 2 folders. Photographic collection.
FRASER, Major-General William Archibald Kenneth. (1886-1969). GB165-0113Photocopy (some portions of text now very faint) and some typed transcripts of diaries kept byFraser while stationed in Persia with his regiment, the Central India Horse, 29 March 1912-December 1919. 230 sheets.
FULLER, William Vickery. (b. 1907). GB165-0114Photocopies and MS transcripts of diary entries 22 April-10 May 1948 with explanatory notes;letter from Dr. Haikel, May 1948; letter from the Jaffa Emergency Committee, May 1948; letterfrom the Secretary to the Chairman of the Truce Commission of the Security Council, Jerusalem;report on certain government officers, Jaffa. 40 sheets.
FURNESS, Sir Robert Allason. (1883-1954). GB165-0115Miscellaneous pamphlets and official papers relating to Anglo-Egyptian relations 1906-47; papersand correspondence relating to Furness’s work as Professor of English Literature at FuadUniversity, Cairo, 1938-40; papers and correspondence relating to censorship in Palestine 1931-36 and publicity censorship in Egypt 1940-45; accounts, minutes and staff details, VictoriaCollege, Cairo, 1942-44; correspondence and memoranda relating to Egyptian politics andinternal affairs, 1919-37. 5 boxes. Handlist.
GARSTANG, Professor John. (1876-1956). GB165-0116Photocopies of papers,1925-26, relating to the Department of Antiquities in Palestine, toGarstang’s resignation as Director of Antiquities and press-release on his role in establishing theBritish Archaeological Institute in Turkey. 14 sheets.
GIBBS, Brian Conaway. (1912-46). GB165-0117Extracts of MS letters written from Palestine, February-August 1938, from Brian Gibbs to hisfiancée Joan; copy of arrangements for policing the Easter ceremonies of the Eastern and Westernrite churches at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Nebi Musa celebrations in Jerusalem,1947. 2 folders.
GOLDIE, Col. Hugh Desmond Barré. (b. 1907). GB165-0119Photocopied TS paper on the history of the Arab Legion, possibly by Glubb c.1944. 10 sheets.
GORDON, Maj.-Gen. Charles George. (1833-85). GB165-0120Photocopied MS letters from the Sudan 1874-84 and one from Massawa in 1879 describing hisvisit to the Emperor John of Ethiopia; TS copy of a biographical note on Gordon by F.E. Freese;photocopies of 34 MS letters from Gordon to Mrs. Freese, 1874-80; MS letter to his brother fromSudan 12 Dec.1878 referring to the Khedive’s ambitions in Ethiopia and Somalia; TS copy of apostcard, 18 February 1884, from Gordon to Revd. Horace Waller; anonymous account ofGordon’s death. 1 box.
GORDON, Rt. Revd. Eric, Bishop of Sodor and Man. (1905-92). GB165-0121Articles from Bible Lands, 1927-28, relating to the Wycliffe Hall Theological College jubileepilgrimage to Palestine, 1927; Wycliffe Hall publications on the jubilee pilgrimage; two volumesof The National Geographic Magazine containing articles relating to Palestine, 1926 & 1927. 1box. Photographic collection.
GORST, Sir (John) Eldon. (1861-1911). GB165-0122MS autobiographical notes beginning 1886 and ending at his death in 1911; speech on taking upthe post of Consul-General in Egypt, 2 November 1907; photocopies of autobiographical notes,birth-1909; photocopied diaries 1890-95, 1897-1911; photocopied engagement books 1910-11;photocopied press-cuttings of Egyptian race-meetings, 1909-11; 3 press-cutting volumes, 1890-1908. 19 vol.; 1 box.
GRAFFTEY-SMITH, Sir Laurence Barton. (1892-1989). GB165-0123Papers from Karachi, 1947-49 and the Governor General’s Commission, Khartoum, 1953-56;letters to Elizabeth Monroe of 11 April 1969 about libellous book, Four Gentlemen by MmeVogt, and 3 October 1969 about the McMahon correspondence. 1 box.
GRAHAM, John David Carew GB165-0327OMAN ARCHIVE: Papers relating to Graham’s work as CSAF (Commander Sultan’s ArmedForces) April 1970- September 1972. Mainly military papers, with some personal memoirs andreflections and a significant quantity of printed material dating from c 1970 to 2000. The majorityof the military papers focus on the Dhofar war of 9 June 1965 – c 1975. Other events and subjectsreferred to are: propaganda during the Dhofar war; military activities of the SAF in northernOman; the administration of the SAF, and the Salalah coup of 1970 during which the presentSultan Qaboos bin Said deposed his father Said bin Taimur. The personal memoirs relate to timespent by Graham in Oman and in other countries. The printed materials give background andcontext to the military papers, and some of the more recent printed materials give and idea ofmilitary activities and social and industrial developments in Oman today. Some files are subjectto closure periods. 8 boxes. Handlist.
GRANADA TELEVISION. GB165-0124Transcripts of research interviews on British withdrawal from Cyprus, Egypt, Iran and Iraq,conducted for the Granada Television series End of Empire, transmitted in 1985. 1 box.
GRAVES, Richard Massie. (1880-1960). GB165-0125Draft of opening chapters of an autobiography covering his service at Constantinople, etc. 1903-08; photocopy of draft outline of book on the Levant Consular Service. 137 sheets; 6 sheets.
GRAY, MACKENZIE & CO., LTD. GB165-0126Photocopied documents on steam navigation on the Tigris and Euphrates, and on the Teheran-Dizful road concession, 1892-1924. 52 sheets.
GREIG, Charles Alexis. (1880-1958) GB165-0314Two letters, 31 March and 20 May 1934, to Miss May Rutherford written from Izmir where Greigwas HM Consul-General, with notes on family history; photographs. 35 sheets; 9 prints.
GREEN, Joseph Coy. (1887-1978) GB165-0317Photocopied TS diary, 4 July 1952-15 September 1953, covering his period as US Ambassadorto Jordan. 3 boxes.
GRENFELL, Field Marshal Sir Francis Wallace, 1st Baron Grenfell. (1841-1925)GB165-0319
MS diaries, 1874-79, 1882, 1884-1925; TS diary transcripts covering service in South Africa,Egypt and Malta,1873-1902, and service in the Royal Household and retirement, 1903-19;correspondence; scrapbook; photograph album; ephemera. 38 boxes; 2 vols. Handlist.
GURNEY, Betty. (d.1981). GB165-0127Letters, 1937, 1944-49 and 1953-55, to friends recounting her daily life in Isfahan and later inCairo as the wife of the Revd. David Gurney, CMS missionary in Iran and Egypt. 96 sheets.
GURNEY, Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy. (1898-1951). GB165-0128“Palestine postscript: a short record of the last days of the Mandate”; TS diary entries, 15 March-14 May 1948; biographical note for the Dictionary of National Biography by Henry Moore witha covering letter to General Sir Alan Cunningham, 1 July 1963. 3 folders.
HAIG, Margaret and HAIG, Helen. GB165-0129TS accounts of journeys undertaken by Margaret and Helen Haig (daughters of Lt.-Col. T.W.Haig) around Meshed in 1914 and 1916, and from Isfahan to Mohammerah in 1918. 92 sheets.
HAIG, Lt.-Col. Sir Thomas Wolseley. (1865-1938). GB165-0130MS diary 1910-11, with account of a journey from Kerman to Bandar Abbas, 1912; reminiscencesof years as a Consul General in Meshed 1913-16, and Isfahan 1916-18. 295 sheets; 2 items.
HAINING, Lt.-Gen. Sir Robert Hadden. (1882-1959). GB165-0131Cyclostyled volume of despatches on the operations carried out by the British Forces in Palestineand Transjordan during the period of command of Lt.-General R.H. Haining, 1 April 1938-30 July
1939; with a few press cuttings of the period and a letter from Malcolm Macdonald. 7 sheets; 1item.
HALLWARD, Cecil Marsham GB165-0132MS diaries, 5 volumes 1887-91 & 1897, covering service with the Levant Consular Service inConstantinople and other parts of the Ottoman Empire. 1 box.
HAMILTON, John Almeric de Courcy. (1896-1973). GB165-0133MS diary, with typed transcript, of events in Northwest Persia and Baku, 1918-19; TS lecturesincluding one on Neguib's assumption of power. 2 folders.
HANSON, Henry James. (1838-1935). GB165-0135Microfilm of “A Record”: MS autobiography in 3 volumes by H.J. Hanson, an Istanbul merchant,giving details of his ancestry, his father’s life in Constantinople and his own memories, includingsome of the Crimean War, and illustrated with watercolours, family letters and ephemera. 1 reel,with colour transparencies of the illustrations.
HARRISON, Helena Austen. (c.1895-1986). GB165-0136Journal of a visit to Palestine via Egypt, 1925, and album of photographs of Palestine. 2 vols.
HARTLEY, Sir Charles Augustus. (1825-1915). GB165-0137Photocopies of six letters, 1872-75 & 1877-78, from General Charles Gordon to Sir CharlesHartley and one letter from Hartley to Mrs. Griffiths, 27 February 1884, concerning Gordon'sletters. 17 sheets.
HAWLEY, Sir Donald Frederick (b.1921) GB165-0338OMAN ARCHIVE: Mainly of printed materials relating to souvenirs from National Daycelebrations in Oman: speeches from the sultan; and invitations to events, 1980-2000. 2 boxes.Handlist.
HAY, Sir William Rupert. (1893-1962). GB165-0138Diaries and accounts of tours 1911-56, with correspondence and articles relating to his servicein Mesopotamia, Waziristan and Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and the Persian Gulf, including thetransfer of the Residence from Bushire to Bahrain. 14 boxes. Handlist.
HAYCRAFT, Sir Thomas Wagstaffe. (d. 1936). GB165-0139TS report by Sir Herbert Samuel to J.H. Thomas, Colonial Secretary, on the situation in Palestine,Jan. 1924; two MS letters from Haycraft to Sir John Chancellor, 1928; Haycraft’s review of TheMandate for Palestine by Y. Stoyanovsky in The Law Quarterly Review, January 1929. 33sheets.
HAYTER, Sir William Goodenough. (1869-1924). GB165-0140Photocopy of a letter of condolence, 6 August 1924, from Lord Allenby to Lady Hayter on thedeath of her husband. 2 sheets.
HAYWARD, S. F. (b. 1908) GB165-0141For the Record: Arab A.M.O. pamphlet giving details of terrorist incidents carried out by Jewish
organisations in Palestine involving British victims, 1944-47. 14 sheets.
HELY HUTCHINSON, Sir John, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore. (1757-1832).GB165-0142
Photocopied report to the Secretary of State, the Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, on the campaign inEgypt, 3 April 1801. 8 sheets.
HENNESSEY, Robert Samuel Fleming. (1905-89). GB165-0143TS account of a visit to Riyadh via Baghdad and Bahrain with the Anglo-American (Palestine)Committee, 16-21 March 1946. 9 sheets.
HERBERT, Hon. Mervyn Robert Howard Molyneux . (1882-1929). GB165-0144Diaries, 2 volumes 1912-17 & 1917-23, covering service in Madrid and Cairo; letter of 20 Nov.1925 from Lord Lloyd on early impressions as Ambassador to Cairo; undated letter from RobinFurness, also from Cairo. 1 box. Handlist
HIGGINS, John. GB165-0145Typed extracts from letters to his wife Freda written during a visit to Palestine on behalf ofCook’s, February-March 1948. 14 sheets.
HODGKIN, Thomas Lionel. (1910-82). GB165-0146Letters from George Antonius to Thomas Hodgkin discussing the situation in Palestine, 1936; textof Hodgkin’s 1981 Antonius Lecture given at St. Antony's. 7 sheets; 50 sheets.
HODGKIN, EC GB165-0362Photocopy of an obituary of Katy Antonius and a photocopy of a TS account of Katy Antonius’life by EC Hodgkin, Dec 1999. 15 sheets.
HOGARTH, David George. (1862-1927). GB165-0147Photocopies of notes and letters, 1897-1921, to his mother, wife and son, mentioning personalitiessuch as Gertrude Bell and T.E. Lawrence; photocopy of a letter from T.E. Lawrence to W.D.Hogarth, 11 November 1928; file of biographical notes. 1 box. Handlist.
HOLDEN, Andrew. (d.1973). GB165-0148Papers dating from his period with the Egyptian Government, 1907-52, including Land Taxassessment, the attempted purchase of land at Abukir, Egyptian nationalism, agricultural creditand irrigation. 1 box. Photographic collection.
HOLMES, Richard J. (1928-77). GB165-0149Correspondence, reports, memoranda, case notes, etc. relating to Aden, 1942-67; papers of theAnglo-Yemeni conference, 1950; East African Currency Board correspondence, 1967-68;correspondence and memoranda on constitutional development in the UAE, 1968-72; “Britain andSouth Arabia”: MS of a constitutional history of South Arabia during the pre-independence period(284 pp.). 5 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
HOLT, Sir Vyvyan. (1896-1960). GB165-0150Drafts of lectures on Iraq under the British Mandate (written post-1942) and Britain’s policy in
the Middle East, c.1958. 23 sheets. Photographic collection.
HOPE-GILL, Cecil Gervas. (1894-1984). GB165-0151TS memoirs “From the womb to the tomb”; letters, reports, telegrams, and press-cuttings relatingto the Ethiopian crisis of May 1936. 2 boxes. Handlist.
HORNSBY, Sir Bertram. (d.1943). GB165-0152Papers on his war service in Egypt, 1915-19; anonymous [Egyptian] criticism of Sir W.Brunyate's proposals for constitutional reform, prepared in 1918; papers on the 1919 riots; Anglo-Egyptian relations under Allenby and Lord Lloyd; economic and financial subjects, 1922-23;memo on the annexation of the Sudan, 1924; anonymous [British] criticism of proposals madeby the British Government for abortive treaty negotiations of 1929-30; proposed agriculturalmortgage scheme for Palestine, 1933; papers on the status of the National Bank of Egypt and itsrelations with the Egyptian Government, 1939. 1 box.
HOURANI, Cecil Amin. GB165-0153Translation of article on the Arab nation and relations with Israel originally published in An-Nahar supplement of 20 August 1967 with cuts by the Lebanese censor marked in red; “Road toGeneva?” U.S. statements on the Middle East, vols. I-IV, Mar. 1977-May 1978. 1 box.
HUTSON, Major G. GB165-0154TS report “Israel and her neighbours”, May 1954. 19 sheets.
ILIFF, Sir William Angus Boyd. (1898-1972). GB165-0155Letter from Gertrude Bell to M. Sevian, 1923, about the situation in Iraq; information forcandidates applying to the Egyptian and Sudanese civil service; agreement between the UnitedArab Republic, Cie Financière de Suez and International Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment on compensation following the nationalisation of the Suez Canal Co., 1958. 7sheets; 1 item.
INGRAMS, William Harold. (1897-1973). GB165-0156G. Warneford Memoranda on the Yaffai-as-Sufal and the territory of the Amir of Dthala, Simla,1904; M.C. Lake “Report on visit to Upper and Lower Yafa, 1926”; convention between theUnited Kingdom and Turkey respecting the boundaries of Aden and of Ottoman territory inSouthern Arabia, signed London, 9 March 1914; report of the Cairo Conference, 1921;miscellaneous papers on Mukalla and Hadhramaut, 1930s-60s; Aden Intelligence Summaries,1935-36; Hadhramaut Intelligence Summaries, 1-144, 1937-40; Eastern Aden ProtectorateIntelligence Summaries, 1941-44; notes, press cuttings, papers, telegrams, etc. on Aden, 1940s-60s; J.G.C. Allen: report on a visit to Algeria, and another on Morocco, 1948(?); an economicsurvey of the South Arabian Federation (Western Aden Protectorate), 1962; article on tribalstructure and allegiance in the Yemen, written 1965 for the Foreign Office; papers relating to theAden Protectorate and Yemen; reports 1933-41; correspondence, memos and telegrams relatingto administrative and political problems, Aden 1941-64; record of the U.N. Special Committeeon granting independence to Aden, 1964; collection of essays and pamphlets; presscuttings. 14boxes. Handlist for boxes 9-14. Photographic collection.
Official printed notice about the protection of caravans on the Kadhimain-Mushahedeh-Sumaicha-Belad road, 28 August 1917. 1 sheet.
JACKLI, R. GB165-0334OMAN ARCHIVE: Parts 1 – 4 of an unpublished draft report of a project undertaken by UNICEFin Oman, December 1973. 1 box. Handlist
JAMALI, Mohammed Fadhel. (1903-97). GB165-0158Photocopied TS of “Arab Struggle, 1943-1958”: a personal account of Iraqi relations with otherArab states. 1 box. Handlist.
JARDINE, Lionel Westropp. (1895-1980). GB165-0159Euphrates Expedition:Copy of Instructions to Col. Chesney... London, 1837; map captured fromthe Turkish army at Ramadi, 1918; Review of Civil Administration of Mesopotamia, London, 1920(Cmd. 1061); miscellaneous ephemera on Iraq during World War I; presscuttings from TheBaghdad Times and The Basrah Times, 1917-18. 1 box. Photographic collection.
JENNINGS-BRAMLY, Wilfred Edgar (1871-1960). GB165-0160Letter to Elizabeth Monroe, 28 June 1953, with map to illustrate his belief that the Egyptianfrontier of 1841 ran from Suez to Rafah, and that much territory in Sinai had been acquired forEgypt by Britain; letters, 1901-53, to Jennings-Bramly and members of his family from friendsand relations, mostly dealing with social matters, though with some mention of the war in theWestern Desert; exploration notes and accounts of expeditions in Egypt and Sudan. 2 boxes. Handlist.
JERUSALEM AND THE EAST MISSION. GB165-0161Records, 1841-1970s, including material on Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Iran, Gulf, Egypt,Sudan, Cyprus and N. Africa; with correspondence on the political situation in Palestine, 1916-67;presscutting volumes. 165 boxes; 23 vols. Handlist. Permission required for access. Photographic collection.
JOHNS, Cedric Norman. (1904-92). GB165-0162Letters from Nagib G. Nassar, Jerusalem, about the Jaffa riots 1933, the work of the Departmentof Antiquities,1935 and about finding work outside Jordan,1952; copy of “Background notes:military and economic elements in the Israeli beach-head”, 1970; four maps showing the proposedboundaries for the partition of Palestine, 1938; press-cuttings on Palestine, 1923-47. 1 box.
JORDAN, BRITISH AMBASSADOR’S ANNUAL REPORTS GB165-0345Photocopies of the British Ambassador’s Annual Report for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordancovering 1951-1970 (not including the reports for 1960 and1968). 1 box
JORDAN COLLECTION. GB165-0163Photocopies of papers relating to the history of Palestine and Jordan 1919-30, includingadministrative documents from the Ajlun and Salt districts, 1919-26; papers relating to thePalestinian Nationalist Rising, 1936-9; papers relating to the Arab Legion. 1 folder.
KARADOGAN, Ismet Bey. (b. c.1880). GB165-0164MS letter of 17 September 1971 to Elizabeth Monroe about his association with Colonel S.F.Newcombe in 1917 and 1918 and enclosing a MS copy of letter from T.E. Lawrence toNewcombe, 17 Jan. 1917. 5 sheets.
KEATING, Rex (b.1910) GB165-0361Papers mainly relating to Rex Keating’s work as Assistant Director in the Palestine BroadcastingService (Radio) between 1945-1948 including a small number of scripts for broadcasts andadministrative papers on staff and equipment. There is also a small amount of material relatingto the Palestine Civil Service (First Division) Association and the Jerusalem Sport’s Club, as wellas reference material probably used in the course of business consisting of Palestine TelephoneDirectory for Jerusalem and Southern Palestine, 1944 and The Palestine Police Calendar ofEvents, 1946. 2 boxes. Handlist
KEDEM, Menachem. GB165-0165Photocopy of TS notes made by Sir Lewis Namier on a meeting held 6 Ocober 1939 betweenhimself, Chaim Weizmann, Moshe Shertok and H.St.J.B.Philby to discuss Philby’s scheme forsettling the Arab-Jewish problem. 2 sheets.
KEDOURIE, Elie. (1926-92). GB165-0166Microfilm copies of Foreign Office documents, and a selection of papers of Gertrude Bell, GeorgeAntonius and others. 16 reels. Handlist.
KEMP, P. GB165-0168Photocopies of material on the revenues of the Pasha of Mosul, 1845, with some maps of theMosul area; photocopies of official reports on the political situation in Syria and the Lebanon,1924-43, including material on the Druze rebellion. (Originals in PRO). 1 box.
KEOWN-BOYD, Sir Alexander William. (1884-1954). GB165-0167Photocopied papers on his service in the Sudan and Egypt, 1914, 1919-22; memo on Egypt’s“free” elections, 1930; letters April 1951 and July 1953 on Egyptian politics; photocopied TScopy of an unfinished letter from K-B to his parents on conditions in Jerusalem and observationson Allenby and Storrs; photocopied TS memoir by Henry Keown-Boyd of his father’s orderlyAhmed. 3 folders.
KERMACK, Stuart Grace. (1888-1981). GB165-0169Photocopy of memoirs of work in the Judicial Service, Palestine, 1920-30. 28 sheets.
KESSLER, Leopold (1864-1944) and GOLDSMID, Col. Albert Edward Williamson. (1846-1904). GB165-0170Photocopy of Kessler’s copy of the Log book of the Commission appointed to report on thepracticability of establishing Jewish settlements on the Sinai peninsular, 11 February-25 March1903; biographical article on Leoplold Kessler from The Jewish Chronicle, 31 January 1964. 140sheets; 3 prints.
Photocopy of MS autobiographical notes covering his early life in England and career in Iraq,1896-1959; photocopies of correspondence as Political Adviser, Mosul, with Sir Kinahan Cornwallis and others, 1941-44. 2 folders.
KIRBY, Sir Arthur Frank. (1899-1983). GB165-0172Papers on railway administration in Palestine, 1945-48; Hijaz railway; Paiforce transportproblems; termination of the Palestine Mandate. 1 box.
KITCHENER, Field Marshal Sir Horatio Herbert, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum. (1850-1916). GB165-0173Three letters from Kitchener to Major P.G. Elgood, May, June and October 1901, about thepurchase and maintenance of an island at Aswan, with related documents, 1902. 10 sheets.
KLINGEMAN, Clara, née Struve. (b. 1907). GB165-0174“Palestine of Yesteryears,” an account of the establishment of Christoff Hoffman’s TempleSociety in Palestine, 1861, and the Struve family’s life in Haifa as members of a Temple Colonythere, 1872-1936. Photocopied illustrated typescript, 1983. 286 sheets.
KUHL, Carl Heinrich Leopold. (b. 1844). GB165-0175Grants of honours received from European sovereigns and Ottoman Sultan, with associatedcorrespondence, 1872-1911; 3 Danish passports for himself, his wife and son. 116 sheets.
LAMPSON, Sir Miles Wedderburn, 1st Baron Killearn. (1880-1964). GB165-0176MS and TS diaries, 1926-51, in 25 volumes covering his service in China, Egypt and the Sudan,and South-East Asia. 7 boxes. Handlist.
LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward. (1888-1935). GB165-0177Photocopied letter to Col. S.F. Newcombe,17 January 1917; letter to King Hussein of the Hijaz,25 June 1918, on the state of operations of the Arab Revolt; copy of a letter to J.W.A. YoungFebruary 1921 commenting on an article describing a visit to Jidda; letter from Rennell Rodd toLiddell Hart, 5 April 1954, about Lawrence’s being offered the Secretaryship of the Bank ofEngland; press-cuttings about The Secret Lives of Lawrence of Arabia with a letter from A.W.Lawrence, 1969; TS account of the Lawrence memorial in St. Martin’s Church, Wareham; TS listof Lawrence letters at Harvard University. 36 sheets.
LAYARD, Sir Austen Henry. (1817-94). GB165-0178Photocopies of 6 letters to Edward Mitford, 1841-50, on his travels in Persia, Iraq and Turkey. 23 sheets.
LEACHMAN, Col. Gerard Evelyn. (1880-1920). GB165-0179Diaries: 1900-02 (South African War); 1904 (Syria and Iraq); undated (Iraq); 1907 (overlandjourney from India to England); press-cuttings of his death, 1920. 1 box.
LEBANON. GB165-0180Photocopy of an Arabic map of Lebanon divided into 21 pieces according to province. 21 items.
Annual reports of the Director of Surveys, Palestine, 1920-39; some material on land laws, landtax, cadastral surveys, and the distribution of land in Palestine during the Mandate period; reporton “Operation Elephant”, 1947. 1 box.
LLOYD, Sir George Ambrose, 1st Baron Lloyd of Dolobran. (1879-1941).GB165-0182
Letters written from Egypt to his sister Mrs. Gwen Carleton, 1900-01, 1905-07 & 1910; twopersonal letters to Maj. Gen. F.S. Piggott, May 1940. 2 sheets; 87 sheets.
LLOYD PHILLIPS, Ivan. (1910-1984). GB165-0183Report by R.E.H. Crosbie on conditions in the Southern District of Palestine, September 1938;two series of Ordnance Survey maps compiled 1925-29 by the Historical Section (Militarybranch), showing the dispositions of British/Ottoman troops in Egypt and Palestine during the 1stWorld War. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
LODER, John de Vere, 2nd Baron Wakehurst. (1895-1970). GB165-0184Letter-book/diary of the Gallipoli and Palestine campaigns, 1915-18, with photographs, postcardsand ephemera pasted in; copy of Bartholomew’s War Map of Europe and the Mediterranean;Arabic map of coastline dated 24 November 1915. 1 box.
LONGRIGG, Brig. Stephen Hemsley. (1893-1979). GB165-0185Report on Occupied Enemy Territory Administration, Cyrenaica, 14 Oct. 1941-31 Jan. 1942 withother reports on Cyrenaica, 1941-42; notes on O.E.T.A. in general. 122 sheets.
LORAINE, Sir Percy Lyham. (1880-1961). GB165-0186Press-cuttings from British and local newspapers, including many cartoons, covering his serviceas High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, 1929-33, and as Ambassador in Turkey, 1933-39. 11 vols. Photographic collection.
LOXTON, John Willoughby. (b.1913). GB165-0187“The Survey of Palestine 1937-38: A Personal Memoir”: photocopied TS covering his recruitmentto the Colonial Service and description of his work and the work of the Survey.. 39 sheets.
LUKE, Sir Harry Charles. (1884-1969). GB165-0188MS diaries 1903-59, including World War I service in Cyprus and Palestine; papers on theWailing Wall dispute of 1929; League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission, 17th session- collected observations re. Palestine, 9 May 1930; notes on a memo of the Jewish Agency; orderof service of Memorial Service, with address given by Stewart Perowne, 1969. 6 boxes. Handlist.
LUNT. Maj. Gen. James Doiran. (b. 1917). GB165-0189Photocopied TS of Address given at the service of thanksgiving for the life of Lt.-Gen. Sir JohnBagot Glubb held in Westminster Abbey, 17 April 1986. 4 sheets.
LYON, Wallace Adelbert. (1892-1977) GB165-0190Photocopied offprint of “Southern Kurdistan in the annals of Ashurnasirpal and today” byEphraim A. Speiser, reprinted from The Annual of the American. Schools of Oriental Research
LYON, Wallace Adelbert (1892-1977) and FIELDHOUSE, David GB165-0343Photocopied TS of the Memoir of Lieutenant Colonel W.A. Lyon; an edited version of thismemoir by David Fieldhouse entitled ‘Kurds, Arabs & Britons, The Memoir of Wallace Lyon inIraq 1918-44 and one letter from Mary Bliss to Professor Fieldhouse commenting on the book.1 box.
MACAN, George. (1803-66) GB165-0191MS letter to Major Henry Spencer written from Cairo 15 February 1844, describing his travelsin Egypt and the Levant; incomplete MS letter dated 1829; photocopy of edited transcript by Prof.Martin Harrison and TS copy. 13 sheets.
McCRINDELL, Andrew L. GB165-0192“Reflections on the Middle East - thirty years on”; photocopied article in The Review, 4November 1977 on insurance in Palestine during the Mandate and his career as an insuranceofficer in Haifa, 1946-52. 3 sheets.
MacGILLIVRAY, Sir Donald Charles. (1906-1966). GB165-0193Engagement books covering service in Palestine, 1938-45; a few papers on the Arab rebellion,1938, and the British withdrawal, 1947-48; printed ephemera from services and social occasionsin Palestine, 1944-47; Palestine passes, identity cards and permits, 1946-47. 1 box. Photographiccollection.
MacGUFFIE, Lt.-Col. the Revd. Alexander H. GB165-0194Papers relating to his service as Chaplain of the Church of England Diocesan Mission in Aden;his ordination training by correspondence course through Wolsey Hall, Oxford, 1940-44;retirement curacy in Cumberland, 1954; various sermons and notes. 1 box.
McKEOWN, J.H. GB165-0339OMAN ARCHIVE: Dissertation: Britain and Oman: The Dhofar War and its Significance.A dissertation submitted by Mckeown for the degree of Master of Philosophy in the Universityof Cambridge, July 1981. 1 box. Handlist.
McMAHON PROMISE. GB165-0195Photocopies of correspondence between Sir Henry McMahon and Sir Edward Gray with drafttelegram as sanctioned by Kitchener and the India Office, October 1915, and Clayton’s comment,December 1915; correspondence on the subject between Elizabeth Monroe, Elie Kedourie andB.C. Busch. 1 folder.
MacMICHAEL, Sir Harold Alfred. (1882-1969). GB165-0196Correspondence with Lord Lloyd, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Sir Reginald Wingate, etc. 1922-41;press-cuttings, letters and papers re. his service in Palestine, 1938-44; Syria, 1941-42; letters fromSir Henry Maitland Wilson; Sudan letters from Sir Arthur Huddleston (1947) and E. BonhamCarter (1954); press-cutting volumes 1934-45. 1 box; 4 vols. Photographic collection.
McNEILL, Brig. Gen. Angus John. (1874-1950). GB165-0197
Papers relating to service in Palestine as Commandant of the British Gendarmerie, 1922-26; asmanager of the Government Stud Farm, Acre, and Stock Breeding Officer for Palestine, 1927-31;as a resident in an Arab village north of Acre, 1932-49. 1 box. Handlist.
MACRO, Squadron Leader Eric L. GB165-0198“Yemen - a brief survey”: TS by Macro giving historical background, c.1948. 10 sheets.
MAGAN, Brig. W.M.T. and ROGER, Alan. (1909-97). GB165-0199Description and photograph of the hand-over to the British of four German officers, apprehendedby members of the Qashgai tribe, Iran, Spring 1944. 15 sheets; 1 print.
MANCE, Brig.-Gen. Sir H. Osborne. (1875-1966). GB165-0200Papers on the operations of the Ottoman Bank throughout the Middle East, including dealingsover railways, trade agreements, oil, mines and other operations, 1911-60. 8 boxes. Handlist.
MAYERS, Norman. (1895-1986). GB165-0201Diaries, correspondence, and press-cuttings covering Mayers’ career in the consular service inEgypt, Turkey and Iran, 1927-79; correspondence and papers relating to Norman Mayers’ workin the consular service in the Lebanon and Egypt, 1920s-30s; papers on service in Latin America. 3 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
MEINERTZHAGEN, Col. Richard. (1878-1967). GB165-0202Photocopy of a letter, 10 January 1964, to - Landman, published in Ha’aretz 3 November 1967,about the precise geographical area envisaged by Balfour and Lloyd George as the JewishNational Home; photocopy of a letter, 25 March 1919, to Lloyd George on the growth of Jewishand Arab nationalism, and the possibility of Britain annexing Turkish Sinai. 3 sheets.
MIDDLE EAST DEVELOPMENT DIVISION. GB165-0203Papers relating to agriculture, education, and financial matters in Jordan, Palestine and other partsof the Middle East, 1939-80, originally in the library of MEDD, Beirut. 18 boxes. Handlist. Further accessions uncatalogued.
MIDDLE EAST SUPPLY CENTRE. GB165-0204Memoranda on land tenure in Palestine, 1942-44; papers on land tenure in various countries ofthe Middle East, 1943-44; documents on a transport conference in Cairo, 1943; memo on theCouncil of Agriculture, 1945; articles on railways in Palestine and Persia. 1 box.
MILLS, Eric. (1892-1961). GB165-0205Five MS letters to Elizabeth Monroe, May-August 1961, concerning Palestine, Zionism and theNegev. 9 sheets.
MONCKTON, Major Reginald Francis Percy. (1896-1975). GB165-0206Papers and letters home from his period of service in Palestine and Transjordan,1917-25,including material on the period before Amir Abdullah’s installation; reminiscences ofTransjordan; notes on the Somerset papers; correspondence with the Israel State Archives, Prof.Uriel Dann and others; Staff List, Palestine Government, 1930; material on excavations atSolomon's Quarries, Jerusalem, 1924-69; diary of a visit to Israel, November-December 1967.
MONROE, Elizabeth. (1905-86). GB165-0207Translation of documents from Tsarist archives on the break-up of the Ottoman Empire,1914-15;a note on the Arab Bureau, 1916-19; letters from C.J. Edmonds on recollections of MosulCommission, Kurds and Anglo-Iraq treaty of 1926; letters from Freya Stark, 4 November 1943-18June 1944, on her mission to America; notes on British policy in Palestine 1945-48 with specialreference to Ernest Bevin; letters on Jordan Waters situation, 1951-55; Nasser's propaganda in thePersian Gulf, 1955-57; effects of the Suez crisis on Iraqi politics; letters on developments in 1957in Iraq and Iran; memo “Saudi Arabia 1970-71”; map of the Hijaz railway; material on Egypt’scampaign to spread its influence by dispatch of Egyptian teachers abroad; TS copies of 2 lettersfrom Elizabeth Monroe about her travels in Morocco and Algeria in 1935. 1 box. Photographiccollection.
MORGAN, Miss Dorothy Blanche. (b. 1906). GB165-0208Material relating to Palestine during and after the Mandate, covering her career as a historyteacher at the English High School, Haifa, including letters from S. P. Emery, reports from theoffice of the Bishop in Jerusalem on the situation during the period May 1948-March 1950, copiesof Bible Lands and Lines of Communication, and a report by Winifred A. Coate on the AbdelliyehVillage Project, Jordan, 1977. Handlist. 2 boxes. Photographic collection.
MORRIS, Sir Willie. (1919-82). GB165-0209Text of Arab-Israeli Truce Agreement, 11 June 1948 signed by Count Bernadotte; printed editionof a speech by Fuad Serag el Din when about to revive the Wafd Party in 1977. 3 sheets; 1 item.
MORRISON, Michael Andrews. (b. circa 1854) GB165-0210MS and TS copy of Ethel Morrison’s account of her father’s travels as a colporteur for the Britishand Foreign Bible Society in Russia, Daghestan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkestan, Romania,Serbia and Germany, 1877-1917; with related articles and press-cuttings by, or about, Morrison. 1 box.
MOTT-RADCLYFFE, Sir Charles Edward. (1911-92). GB165-0211Memo on the British Army in the Canal Zone, with reports of a meeting with Nasser and Neguib,May 1954. 23 sheets.
MUMFORD, Richard. (1894-1960). GB165-0212Photocopied TS reminiscences as confidential clerk to H. St. J. B. Philby in Transjordan. 12sheets.
MURRAY, Dr. John. (1912-86) GB165-0322“Iran Today: an economic and descriptive survey”: two volumes of material prepared fordelegates to the International Islamic Economic Conference, Tehran, October 1950, by Dr. JohnMurray. 1 box.
MURLY-GOTTO, Anthony (b.1942) GB165-0367TS article entitled ‘From War to Peace Oman 1975-1978 Snaphots’ by Anthony Murly-Gottogiving a personal account of his service in Oman and in particular an account of the development
and management of the finances and budgets of Oman’s military. 36 sheets. Handlist
MYER, Henry Dennis. (b.1892). GB165-0213TS excerpts from letters to his wife written during service with the Jewish Battalion serving underAllenby, 1918-19; “Soldiering of Sorts”: TS autobiographical account of his war service, n.d.. 1 box.
MYLREA, Dr. C. Stanley G. (1876-1952). GB165-0214“Before oil came to Kuwait” and “Kuwait before oil”: two TS versions of the memoirs of Dr.Mylrea, pioneer medical missionary of the Arabian Mission in Bahrain and Kuwait, 1907-47, including comment on local affairs and the ruling families as well as descriptions of the medicalwork of the mission. 1 box.
NAIRN TRANSPORT COMPANY. GB165-0215Press-cuttings relating to Norman and Gerald Nairn, and the formation and work of the NairnTransport Company's Beirut to Baghdad passenger, mail and freight service, 1923-46. 1 box.
NALDER, Leonard Fielding. (1888-1958). GB165-0216Translations of eight messages sent by Feisal to his father during the Arab rising against theTurks, 1917, with two original Arabic texts; Arabic MS on the Yezidis prepared for Nalder bySidd_q Al-Daml_j_, 1949; administration reports of the Mosul Division, 1919-21; report“Personalities: Mosul, Arbil and the Frontier; diary of 1927 Iraqi-Turkish Boundary DemarcationCommission, with some official correspondence. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
NEWCOMBE, Col. Stewart Francis. (1878-1956). GB165-0217Copy of a letter from T.E. Lawrence, 17 January 1917; letters to Ismet Karado_an Bey,18November 1917, 14 December 1932 and 24 April 1936. 8 sheets.
NICHOLLS, R.K. (b.1921) GB165-0335OMAN ARCHIVE: Oman Visit Report 1st – 11th June 1964: Report written by Nicholls forPetroleum Development Oman (PDO). The report considers suitable marine locations in the Saihal Malsh Bay area near Muscat for ocean tanker crude oil loading facilities, a barge jetty, andother problems relating to crude oil off-takes; Oman ‘93: Booklet published by the Ministry ofInformation about development within Oman. The booklet was sent to Nicholls as a gift fromAyild Waleed a former colleague of Nicholls’ and it is annotated to this effect. 1 box. Handlist.
NICHOLSON, William Ewart. (1890-1983). GB165-0218Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the system of education of the Jewish Community inPalestine,1945; TS diary as Secretary of the Commission of Enquiry into Jewish Education inPalestine, 8 October 1945-Feb. 1946, and related material; Handbook of the Jewish CommunalVillages in Palestine by Edwin Samuel, 1945; The Children’s Community of the HashomerHatzair at Mishmar Haemek by Edwin Samuel, [1944]. 1 box
NORMAN, Miss Dorothy Aston. (1907-c.1993). GB165-0219Letters written to her family during the course of her career as a mathematics teacher at JerusalemGirls' College and the English High School, Haifa, 1934-48; letters to her sister, Evelyn, whilein charge of St. George’s Hostel, Jerusalem in the absence of the Warden, September-December
NORTON, Sir Clifford John. (1891-1990). GB165-0220British Military Administration in Egypt: Arabic proclamation warning villages to be burned,issued 1918-19; details of a play “The Victory of the Arabs over the Foreigner” presentedJerusalem (?), 1919, under the patronage of the Amir Feisal; threatening letter received at BritishForces HQ. 4 sheets.
NOTT, Lewis Herbert William. (1869-1964). GB165-0221Photocopies of letters of appreciation of Nott’s service as Civil Administrator, Gaza, from SirLouis Bols, Viscount Samuel, Viscount Allenby, Sir Wyndham Deedes and the Mayor of Gaza,and others, 1920-22. 22 sheets.
O'MALLEY, Sir Owen St. Clair. (1887-1974). GB165-0222Photocopy of letter from Sir Harold Nicolson, 23 August 1927, discussing his despatch no. 486of 30 September 1926 from Tehran, criticising Sir Percy Loraine’s optimism about Anglo-Persianrelations and giving O’Malley the reasons for his probable resignation from the Foreign Service. 4 sheets.
PALESTINE. GB165-0223Bound TS proceeedings of “Conferences on Palestine: United Kingdom-Arab Meetings, 7February-17 March 1939”; Maps relating to the Report of the Anglo-American Committee ofEnquiry regarding the problems of European Jewry and Palestine, HMSO, 1946, supplement toCmd. 6808. 1 vol.; 5 items.
PALGRAVE, William Gifford. (1826-88). GB165-0225Five MS letters, all missing their final pages, written by Palgrave from various places in AsiaMinor (where he was Consul), 7 February-24 October 1867, to Miss Clara Jekyll, later LadyHenley, with a note by Albert Hourani; photocopies of 18 letters to his father, and brothers Inglisand Frank, giving details of his life and travels in the Middle East, 1854-71, with 4 panoramicsketches of Palestine landscapes. 1 box.
PALIT, Maj.-Gen. Dharitri Kumar (b.1919) GB165-0226Military Attaché’s reports from the Indian Embassy, Cairo, to the External affairs Ministry, NewDelhi, concerning Egyptian internal affairs (including the Royal Family), relations with foreignpowers, and military affairs. 1 box.
PARKER, A. Stanley. (b. circa 1895) GB165-0227Copy of The Egyptian Gazette, 25 May 1921 containing an account of riots in Alexandria; MSaccount, 14 February 1966, of a meeting with Lord Lloyd in1925 in connection with Parker’sreport in The Times of an Egyptian Cabinet crisis. 5 sheets.
PARTINGTON, F.M. GB165-0337OMAN ARCHIVE: File of miscellaneous materials put together by Partington consisting ofphotographs of Muscat, Muttrah, Ruwi, and Bait Al Falaj in 1970 and 1980 (stored seperately);a ‘wanted by the Sultanate Government’ poster which was given to Partington by a colleaguefrom SAF; a publication by the Embassy of the Sultanate of Oman in London entitled Oman; and
a bound guide to the SAF museum in Bait Al Falaj. 1 box. Handlist.
PAXTON, Jeremy, F.E. (b.1937) GB165-0331OMAN ARCHIVE: Miscellaneous collection of PDO (Petroleum Development Oman) companyfiles mainly from the PDO office in Muscat, which was closed in 1976. The files were retainedby Paxton as part of a salvage operation and would otherwise have been destroyed. The paperscontain some reports, but mainly consist of subject and organisational files used by the staff ofthe Muscat office for reference. The collection also contains a small amount of Paxton’s ownresearch papers arising from his interest in Bertram Thomas an early explorer in Oman, and someprinted materials relating to Oman and other Middle Eastern countries. 14 boxes. Handlist.
PEROWNE, Stewart Henry. (1901-89). GB165-0228Personal letters to his family from school, university and throughout his career, 1913-47;correspondence with friends and colleagues written from Iraq, 1941-47; correspondence withKing Faisal II of Iraq, the Regent Abdulillah, and Nuri As-Said, 1942-57, general correspondence,1937-71; broadcasts, lectures and articles on the Middle East, 1929-49; miscellaneous personalpapers. 5 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
PEYTON, William Durham. (1917-1991) GB165-0330OMAN ARCHIVE: The main scope of the papers consists of materials collected by Peyton duringhis time in Oman, through his own interest in the country and through his position as TradeRelations Manager with PDO. The papers also contain materials relating to other countries,particularly the Yemen, in which Peyton held an interest. 6 boxes. Handlist.
PHILBY, Harry St. John Bridger. (1885-1960). GB165-0229Political and personal correspondence, memos, travel diaries, exploration reports, engagementbooks, published and unpublished literary MSS, c.1915-57, covering Transjordan, Iraq, Palestine,Arabia and including correspondence and minutes of meetings of Sharqieh Ltd. and MitchellCotts Ltd. 89 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
PLANT, Capt. Samuel Cornell. (c.1860-1921). GB165-0230TS copy of account of his experiences, 1884-91, on the Upper Karun River, Persia, as captain ofthe “Shushan”, a river-steamer of the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company, with anaccount of a trip to the tomb of the prophet Daniel and the palace of Shushan. 133 sheets.
POLLOCK, James Huey Hamill. (1893-1982). GB165-0231Letters and reports relating to religious affairs in Palestine, 1921-49, including Foreign Officepamphlet “Status quo in the Holy Places of Palestine”; notes, 1943, on censorship procedure andcinematograph films ordinance (Palestine, 1927); household account book, 1945-46; three TSletters from W.A. Kerr, 1949, on the situation in Palestine; album of pictures of Tel Aviv byAbraham Soskin, c.1926. 1 box. Photographic collection.
PRICE, Morgan Philips. (1885-1973). GB165-0232Notes “Zeitun: a remarkable Armenian stronghold”, 2 January 1914; memo on a Persian visit inOctober 1953; unpublished MS entitled “The National Revolution in Turkey, Persia and theMiddle East”; diaries of travels in Iran, Iraq and Turkey, 1947; memos, notes and interviewsrelating to Afghanistan, Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, 1946-53, including interviews with the
Shah; correspondence 1941-59; press-cuttings relating to the Middle East 1889-1972. 8 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
QUILLIAM, Brig. Cyril David. (1899-1972). GB165-0233Cutting from The Times, 2 October 1953 about the death sentence, later commuted, passed onformer Egyptian Prime Minister Ibrahim Abdel Hadi, and Quilliam’s correspondence with LesterPearson about this; letter from Lord Stansgate, 12 January 1954 referring to the failure ofnegotions with Sidqi Pasha; undated letter from M.F. Nokrashy [but before he went to LakeSuccess] declining to comment “on the present situation and the points raised by Mr. Bevin”. 5sheets.
RAPP, Sir Thomas Cecil. (1893-1984). GB165-0234Unpublished TS memoirs covering his service in the Canal Zone, 1920-22, 1924-25, 1950-53;Egypt, 1922-25, 1950-52; Arabia (Hijaz) 1924; Morocco 1926-30; and Persia (Azerbaijan) 1943-44 including some details of the wartime supply route to Russia and the Kurdish Republic ofMahabad. 1 box.
RATHBONE, Brig. Reginald Blythe. (b. 1895). GB165-0235MS memoir of service in Palestine, November 1946-April 1948. 7 sheets.
RAWLINSON, Sir Henry Creswiscke. (1810-1895). GB165-0236Photocopy of Rawlinson’s obituary in The Times, 6 March 1895. 1 sheet.
REILLY, Lt.-Col. Sir Bernard Rawdon. (1882-1966). GB165-0237Letter, 18 November 1946, to H.R. Cowell about financial arrangements after the AdenSettlement ended in 1944/45. 1 sheet.
RENDEL, Sir George William. (1889-1979). GB165-0238“Notes on the proposed Greek participation in the War” TS report written while First Secretaryin the British Legation, Athens during the First World War; TS correspondence between Rendel,Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, Amir Saud, Yusuf Yassin and Hafiz Wahba following Rendel's visit toSaudi Arabia, June-July 1937; correspondence with Sir Colin Crowe, December 1964, about hispapers, with recollections of Ibn Saud and Saudi Arabia; TS note, 1965, on the modification ofthe Syria-Iraq frontier, 1929-31; TS note, 1966, on the transfer of the Residency from Bushire toBahrain; TS note, 1966, on the Kuwait oil concession; photocopied MS diary of his visit to SaudiArabia, February-March 1937 1 box. Photographic collection.
RENTON, Maj.-Gen. James Malcolm Leslie. (1898-1972). GB165-0239Papers relating to the Assyrians, Iraq Levies, and the Iraq Army; correspondence with Membersof Parliament, Save the Children Fund, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Church of EnglandCouncil on Foreign Relations about the plight of Assyrian refugees, including Eshai Mar ShimunXXI, the Assyrian Patriarch, and his family. 1 box.
RICE, Col. Harry Patrick (1886-1973). GB165-0240Memos on the protection of Palestine Government officials during the Arab Rebellion, writtenby Rice as Acting Inspector-General of Police, November 1937. 8 sheets.
RICHARDS, Herbert Arthur. (1866-1957). GB165-0241Notebooks and accounts of H.A. Richards’s life in Mesopotamia and Persia, 1896-1909, includinga journey from Ahwaz to Isfahan, and sighting of oil deposits in Shuster; article from a Persiannewspaper on the death of Nasr ed-Din Shah; valedictory letter from Richards’ Persian staff inTehran, 1904; letter of thanks from the Office of Works to Richards for his report on theAssociated Khanats in connection with the water supply to the Legation in Tehran, 1904. 1 box. Photographic collection.
RICHARDS, Peter Clifton (b.1909) and RICHARDS, Dolly. GB165-0242Where am I going?: preliminary draft memoirs. Peter Richards’ autobiography, 1982, coveringthe period 1896-1940, including extracts from material written by H.A. Richards in Persia. 1folder.
RICHMOND, Sir John Christopher Blake. (1909-90). GB165-0243Photocopied TS lecture on British policy in Palestine between the First and Second World Warsgiven at the Middle East Centre, December 1969. 27 sheets.
RIDLER, Miss Hilda M. (1880-1980). GB165-0244Off-prints of two lectures given by Miss Ridler to the Barbados Museum and Historical Society,“The Palestine I Knew. 1914-1948”, 1949, and “Palestine Revisited”, 1952; trilingual Form ofService commemorating the deliverance of Jerusalem, n.d.; Palestine: a brief description of theHoly Land, specially written for children, n.d. 27 sheets.
ROSS, Henry James. (1820-1902). GB165-024528 MS letters and 2 undated fragments, chiefly to Sir Henry Layard from Mosul, 1847-48,(internal politics, defeat of Kurds by Turks, etc.); Malta, 1848-49; London, 1849; Samsoon, 1849,1851 and 1855-56 (trade, agriculture, Crimea, Turkish attitude towards Christian nations);Alexandria, 1852 (interview with Abbas Pasha, Viceroy’s attitude to the Porte, etc.); 1 letter toRoss from Layard, Therapia, 19 July 1849. 107 sheets.
ROWLATT, Sir Frederick Terry. (1865-1950). GB165-0246Photocopies of minutes of a meeting of British merchants, Alexandria, 1864; map of Alexandria,1882; letters on his appointment as Deputy, Egyptian Govt., and Governor of the National Bankof Egypt, 1898; 1 photocopy and 1 MS letter from Lord Cromer, 1906; photocopy of residentialmap of Gezira, Cairo, with names and functions of residents,1917. 35 sheets. Photographiccollection.
RUSSELL, Sir Thomas Wentworth. (1879-1954). GB165-0247Photocopied MS report on Camel Patrols in Western Desert, 1906; Milner Report, 1921, and otherofficial papers on Egyptian internal affairs, 1922; papers, 1925, relating to the murder of Sir LeeStack in 1924; papers relating to Black Saturday, 1952; photocopied MS and TS letters to hisfamily giving details of police work in Egypt, 1904-47. 1 box. Handlist.
RYAN, Sir Andrew. (1876-1949). GB165-0248Papers relating to the Levant Consular Service in Turkey, Rabat and Jidda,1897-1958; personaland official correspondence; autobiographical notes; MS and TS of autobiography Last of theDragomans; literary papers; scrapbooks. 6 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
RYDER, Col. Charles F. (d. 1961). GB165-0249TS extracts from Ryder’s memoirs relating to the public security of British officials in Egypt,1922, including letters from Viscount Allenby. 14 sheets.
SADLEIR, Capt. George Forster. (1789-1859). GB165-02502 TS copies of P. Ryan’s 1866 Byculla edition of Diary of a journey across Arabia from El Katifin the Persian Gulf to Yambo in the Red Sea, during the year 1819; F.M. Edwards’ research onSadleir’s life (published in the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, January 1957), hisfamily and the sword presented to him after his Persian mission; photograph of the sword;original lease of Killwine, King’s County, Ireland, made between Edward, Earl Digby and theRevd. Dr. Francis Sadleir, 1 September 1825. 1 box.
SALMON, Frederick John. (1882-1964). GB165-0251Photocopies of correspondence with Lt.-Gen. Sir John Dill, November 1936 on the supply ofmaps and plans to British forces in Palestine; photocopied TS note on 12th century church atQariat al-Enab, one of the traditional sites of Emmaus; photocopied TS notes compiled forSquadron Leader T.C. Traill on a flight over the area covered by the southern sheet of Palestinemap 1/250,000; obituary notice from the Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 1964. 6 sheets.
SAMUEL, Sir Herbert Louis, 1st Viscount Samuel. (1870-1963). GB165-0252Official papers, 1914-39, including some photocopies and carbon copies, on the future ofPalestine, Zionism, the McMahon Correspondence, and a Palestine settlement, alsocorrespondence with Lord Curzon on Arab nationalism, the French in Syria etc.; photocopies ofletters, 1920-22, to the Hon. Philip Samuel written from Jerusalem by his parents and othermembers of his family. 2 boxes; 5 reels of film.
SAUNDERS, Col. Alan. (1886-1964). GB165-0253Farewell autograph book from Palestine Police colleagues on his transfer to Nigeria, 1935;Nigerian Police Reports, 1936-37; Tripolitania Police Force and Prison Service AdministrationReports, 1946-51; maps of Kenya, 1947, and Tanganyika, 1957; article on the Tripolitania Policein Soldier: The British Army Magazine, vol. 6, no. 5, July 1950, pp.18-21; printed ephemera;epaulettes, badges and buttons from Palestine and Nigeria Police uniforms. 1 box. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SCHLEIN, -. GB165-0254Photocopy of pamphlet Circular of a project for the erection of Palestine into an independentstate, advocating the creation of a Christian state in Palestine, independent of the OttomanEmpire, c.1841. 3 sheets.
SCOTT, Frank Montgomery. (1892-1974). GB165-0255Official letters of thanks and appreciation, 1928-48, for his work in the Palestine Police andPrisons Service, and the Control Commission for Germany; medical reports for injuries sustainedby Scott in the discharge of his duties in Jaffa, 1930; press-cuttings; Palestine Prisons ServiceAdministration report, 1946. 21 sheets; 1 item.
Photocopy of a proclamation in Arabic, English and Hebrew, prohibiting the carrying of arms anddisturbance of the peace, signed by Robert Scott as Acting Chief Secretary, Palestine, 15November 1945. 1 sheet.
SCRIVENER, Rupert Frederick. (1890-1951). GB165-0257Papers relating to Scrivener’s service as Chief Engineer of Palestine Railways and Ports, 1923-48,including reports on sabotage; historical development of railways in Turkey, Palestine and Syria;1882-1946. 4 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SEARLE, Pauline. (b.1922) GB165-0328OMAN ARCHIVE: The papers cover the nine year period which Searle spent in Oman as ajournalist for Reuters, relating mainly to the Dhofar war in southern Oman, which was ongoingduring the time Searle lived there, and military operations connected with the war. A significantpart of the papers relate directly to Searle’s work for Reuters, and her communications withReuters personnel in Bahrain and London. Other papers are working notes, and written articlescreated and collected by Searle in the course of her work. There is a small amount of personalpapers and printed material. Some of the materials look at the wider context of life in Oman forthe local people. c1968-1979. 4 boxes. Handlist.
SHAHAK, Prof. Israel. (b.1933) GB165-0258Two duplicated copies of “As-sahy_n_ya: al-haq_qa bi-k_milh_” [“Zionism: the truth in itsentirety”] by Israel Shahak with an introduction by Emil Thoma, 5 January 1975; duplicatedtranslations from the Israeli press, annotated by Prof. Shahak, on the treatment of Arabs in Israeland the Occupied Territories, with other examples of eye-witness testimony, January-June 1975and April-September 1976; duplicated TS of “What are my opinions” by Israel Shahak, n.d. 1box.
SHEPHERD, Sir Francis Michie. (1892-1962) GB165-0372Unpublished memoirs of Sir Francis Shepherd entitled ‘Never Trouble Trouble’ consisting of aTS hardbound photocopy including photographs and a bound incomplete MS version. TheMemoir covers Sir Francis Shepherd’s childhood and career, including an account of his wartimeservice in Mesopotamia in 1915 in which he took part in the military campaign to relieve GeneralTownshend at Kut and also his service as British Ambassador to Persia in 1950-1952. 2 boxes.Handlist.
SHLAIM, Avi. (b. 1945) GB165-0348Unedited typescript of the book The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World published by W.W.Norton in the US and by Penguin Books in the UK. The unedited transcript is about 30,000 wordslonger than the published version. The section ‘Israel’s International Orientation’ in chapter 2,pp74-85 was not included in the published version and the conclusion was rewritten, shortenedand renamed Epilogue. The cuts were made by Avi Shlaim or were approved cuts suggested bythe editor. 2 boxes. Handlist.
SHONE, Sir Terence Allen. (1894-1965). GB165-0259MS account of events leading up to the accession of Yugoslavia to the Tripartite Pact and of thecoup d’état in Belgrade, 1941; report on conditions in the Levant, April-August 1945, with diarynotes by Lady Shone on events in Damascus, May-June 1945, and of a visit to Latakia, Hama, and
Selimieh, 9-15 September 1945. 2 folders. Photographic collection.
SIDQI PASHA, Isma’il. (1875-1950). GB165-0260MS note in French, 18 November 1946, on his conversation with Ernest Bevin, on hisconversations in London, 17-25 October, with Ernest Bevin, British Foreign Secretary,concerning the revision of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, with typed transcript. 5 sheets.
SINDERSON, Sir Harry Chapman. (1891-1974). GB165-0261“Physician to Iraq’s Royal Family 1923-46: the memoirs of Sir Harry Sinderson Pasha, KBE,CMG, MVO, FRCP (Edin.), being the full manuscript version of Ten Thousand and One Nightspublished by Hodder and Stoughton 1973”: TS produced by Derek Hill, 1991, from Sinderson’soriginal MS; press-cuttings on Iraq, taken mainly from The Iraq Times, 1920, 1925-27, 1929-46,1953. 1 box and 11 oversize files. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SKEET, Ian. (b.1928) GB165-0329OMAN ARCHIVE: The main scope of the papers are research materials for two books aboutOman, written by Skeet: Muscat and Oman: the End of an Era Faber and Faber, London 1974;and Oman: Politics and Development Macmillan, 1992. Other materials relate to Skeet’s interestin other Middle Eastern countries, and there are a few personal documents. Broad subjectscovered by the papers are: The Sultanate and life in Oman before 1970, and the development ofthe country under the new Sultan Qaboos from 1970. A large number of the materials focus onthe development of law and the economy in Oman from 1970. 5 boxes. Handlist.
SKRINE, Sir Clarmont Percival. (1888-1974). GB165-0262Off-print of “The Quetta earthquake” [31 May 1935], a paper read by C.P. Skrine to the RoyalGeographical Society, 8 June 1936, published in The Geographical Journal, vol. 88 no. 5, 1936. 11 sheets.
SLADE-BAKER, Col. John Bigelow. (d. 1966). GB165-0263Diaries, despatches and memoranda relating to the Middle East and North Africa, 1948-66, mostlycompiled by Slade-Baker during his work as a correspondent for The Sunday Times, 1952-60;press-cuttings; maps. 16 boxes; 4 vols. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SLUGLETT, Peter. GB165-0264TS note compiled by Peter Sluglett of extracts from papers in the Public Record Office relatingto the Assyrian massacre of 1933. 3 sheets.
SMART, Sir Walter Alexander. (1883-1962). GB165-0265Walter Smart, by Some of His Friends, (Chichester Press, n.d.): a series of essays in appreciationof Sir Walter Smart by Julian Amery, Maie Casey, Lawrence Durrell, Robin Fedden, AllanahHarper, John Hamilton, Patrick Kinross, Patrick Leigh-Fermor, Freya Stark and ChristopherSykes. 1 item.
SMILEY, David (b.1916) GB165-0336OMAN ARCHIVE: The papers relate to the later part of Smiley’s career as CSAF (CommanderSultan’s Armed Forces) in Oman, and consist mainly of correspondence between Smiley andcolleagues, and the Sultan Said bin Taimur, and a report by Smiley on the SAF. 1 box. Handlist.
SMITH, Arthur Lionel Forster. (1880-1972). GB165-0266Correspondence with HumphreyBowman, Sir Reader Bullard, Sir Arnold Wilson and others,including material on education in Iraq and Palestine, and other Iraqi affairs, 1920-31;correspondence from Jerome Farrell and C.J. Edmonds, 1959-60. 5 boxes. Photographiccollection. Handlist
SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME BELGE-EGYPTIENNE DE L’EZBEKIEH.GB165-0267
Correspondence and agreements, 1921-27, relating to the purchase by the New EgyptianCompany and M. Josse Allard of shares belonging to His Highness Abbas Hilmi II, ex-Khediveof Egypt, in the Société Anonyme Belge-Egyptienne de l’Ezbekieh. 52 sheets
SOMERSET, Fitzroy Richard, 4th Baron Raglan. (1885-1964). GB165-0268Photocopied papers on the British administration in Transjordan, including Hon. FitzroySomerset’s letters to his parents, memoranda and correspondence on border and security matters,1919-21; minutes of the Jerusalem conference, 1921; correspondence between Elizabeth Monroe,Major Monckton and Lt-Col. F.G. Peake, 1967-68, about the Somerset Papers. 1 box.
SPEARS, Maj.-Gen. Sir Edward Louis, 1st Baronet. (1886-1974). GB165-0269Papers relating to Syrian and Lebanese affairs including the Spears Mission, 1941-44; theLebanese constitutional crisis, 1943; Syrian and Lebanese independence; the future of Palestine;Anglo-Arab Association correspondence, 1946-66; Mt. Scopus case, 1953; Anglo-Arab Clubcorrespondence, 1962-70; British-Tunisian Society correspondence; Middle Eastern affairs ingeneral; press-cuttings on Syria and Lebanon, Palestine, Arab refugees, the Arab-Israeli conflict. 28 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SPRY, Sir John Farley. (b.1910) GB165-0315Papers relating to land law and land tenure in Palestine, 1919-48. 1 box.
STAINTON, Benjamin Whitelaw. (1856-1927). GB165-0270Baptismal certificate of Elsie Stainton, Shiraz, 1884; 2 menus for dinners given by the Shah, 1901and 1902; 2 letters from General A. Houtum Schindler to Stainton, 1907 and 1912; MS notes forStainton’s Persian dictionary/grammar; series of articles on Persia by Stainton published in TheFinancier, 1912-13; press-cuttings from British newspapers on Persian affairs, 1914-31; signedoff-prints of 15 articles on Persia, India and Central Asia from The Scottish GeographicalMagazine, 1916-20, by Lt.-Col. A.C. Yate. 1 folder. Handlist.
STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton. (1841-1904). GB165-0271Typed transcript of a letter to Charles Sterling, 2 July 1898, on the prospects of an advancebeyond Khartoum to Fashoda. 1 sheet.
STORRS, Sir Ronald. (1881-1955). GB165-0272TS notes on Pt. 1 of the Arab Bulletin, n.d.; Reuter’s duplicated text of a lecture by Storrs on T.E.Lawrence, 18 June 1935. 15 sheets.
STRAHAN, Alec J. (b. 1918) and HARRIS, Martin. (b.1915) GB165-0273
Photocopied TS extract from the diary of Captain Strahan RA, 8 February 1942 relating to theAbdin Palace incident, with an account by Capt. Martin Harris RHA of the same incident; twoletters from Alec Strahan, January and February 1990, supplementing these accounts. Chapters9 – 17 of Alec Strahan’s Memoirs. One black and white photograph of Alec Strahan, April 1944.1 folder. Handlist.
SULTAN’S ARMED FORCES ASSOCIATION GB165-0333OMAN ARCHIVE: A full serial of the Association publication (Newsletters, later Journals), anda small amount of printed ephemera. The Newsletters reports on the activities of the SAF, andsocial events of the Society. Activities of the Anglo-Omani Society are also documented in thelater issues. The publication is intended to be a journal of record containing illustrated articles ofhistoric as well as current interest, book reviews relevant to SAF and to Oman and personaldetails of members, including obituaries. The publication provides insight into the developmentand achievements of the military in Oman over a period of thirty years, as well as regulardescriptions of the development of the country itself in a context not solely military. 3 boxes.Handlist.
SYKES, Herbert Rushton. (1870-1952). GB165-0274Tour diaries and survey reports relating to the construction of the Indo-European Telegraph line,1902-04, and lectures on Persian geography, 1903, 1905 and 1907. 2 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
SYKES, Sir Mark, 6th Baronet. (1879-1919). GB165-0275Photocopies and microfilms of documents 1-130 from Section 11 of the Sledmere Papers,including material on the Arab revolt; 1915-16, Sykes-Picot agreement 1916-17; liberation ofBaghdad 1917; agreements on Asia Minor; Zionism; Palestine settlements 1917-19. 2 boxes. Handlist.
SYKES, Edward Molesworth. (1910-1992). GB165-0344Photographs of construction work in the late 1930s of the railway from Abadan to Tehran witha short account by Edwards Sykes of his work on the railway. One photograph, taken in April1944, showing Edward Sykes seated in a tent with the Khans of the Qashqai tribe, negotiating thehandover of some escaped German agents and one page of an account written by Edward Sykesdetailing his journey to Tehran in August 1942 and the work assigned to S.O.E. 30 items.Handlist.
SYKES, Sir Percy Molesworth. (1867-1945). GB165-0276Reports of a mission 1892; a reconnaissance through Persian Baluchistan and Eastern Persia,1893-94; routes and notes of a third journey in Persia (War Office, 1894); Perso-Baluch BoundaryCommission papers, 1896; foundation of the Sistan Consulate; despatches to Lord Salisbury oncurrent events, 1899-1900; report on the agriculture of Khorasan (Simla, 1910); bombardment ofthe Meshed shrine, 1912; reports and despatches of South Persia Rifles, 1917-18; miscellaneouswritings on Persia, Anglo-Russian occupation, modern Turkey, etc; reports, despatches,correspondence and miscellanea relating to Sykes’ work in Persia 1905-18; correspondence withAllenby, the Foreign Office and others 1934-45; lectures, articles and press-cuttings on CentralAsian affairs 1897-1982. 6 boxes. Photographic collection.
TASSELL, Robert. (1784-1867) GB165-0277Letter-book containing copies of Robert Tassell’s letters to his daughter Mary describing hisjourney to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria with his son Robert, 30 October 1839-25 July 1840; diary,11 April-9 May 1840, of same journey illustrated with pencil sketches. 1 box.
TAYLOR, Major Charles Theodore Cochrane. (b. 1895). GB165-0278TS draft autobiography “Many Happy Returns”, indexed, and illustrated with photographs,covering Major Taylor's early life, training at Sandhurst, military service in France and Turkeyduring the First World War, emigration to Southern Rhodesia under the Empire SettlementScheme to take up tobacco farming, military service in Turkey during the Second World War, andpostwar white Rhodesian politics, with a MS postscript dealing with Rhodesian affairs from 1976. 1 box.
TEAGUE, Mrs. Heather, née Fairley. (d.1966). GB165-0279Duplicated TS letters, April 1936-June 1940, to her parents and brother Harold from Jerusalemwhere her husband, Col. John Teague, was working for the Government of Palestine. 44 sheets.
TEESDALE, Capt. Frank Robinson. (d.1916) GB165-0280Photocopied TS biographical notes on Capt. Teesdale and summary of a ten page diary of hisjourney from Aleppo to Basra , 20 December 1909-15 January 1910, while serving with the 75thCavalry (Frontier Force) Indian Army. 3 sheets.
TEGART, Sir Charles Augustus. (1881-1946). GB165-0281Papers relating to British policy in Palestine, internal security, the reorganisation of the PalestinePolice, construction of border defences, and police work in general, 1937-39; personal papersrelating to the attempt on his life, 31 December 1938; press-cuttings. 4 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
THAMES TELEVISION. GB165-0282Photocopied transcripts of research interviews with British officials, Jews and Arabs, used in thethree-part series Palestine, produced by Richard Broad and transmitted by Thames Television,27 June-11 July 1978. Handlist. 2 boxes.
THOMPSON, Barbara M., née Sherrell. (1904-1992). GB165-0283Travels of Tatah 1938-45 by Barbara M. Thompson: illustrated account by the wife of JackThompson, Senior Medical Officer Palestine Railways, of her journey to Palestine and subsequentwartime journeys between Palestine and South Africa, edited by Michael Thompson; additionalbiographical information by Michael Thompson. 78 sheets. Photographic collection.
THORNE, Charles GB165-0347Photocopy of the original diary kept by Charles Thorne 29 Aug 1915 – 19 Jan 1918, TStranscription of Charles Thorne’s diary entitled ‘A Wartime Diary by Trooper Charles Thorne ofthe Warwickshire Yeomanry 1915 to 1918’. 1 box. Photographic Collection.
TIBAWI, Abdul-Latif. (b. 1910). GB165-0284Two printed letters from the Patriarchs of Jerusalem and Antioch,1887, probably intended for
private circulation; Jihad, 1914 - photocopies of Ottoman proclamations in Turkish and French;map of the administrative divisions in Greater Syria, 1914; two letters in Arabic from Prof. Anisal-Maqdisi,1932; Arab Revolt, 1936 -Qawuqji's 1st and 8th proclamations; monthly Newsletterno. 2 of the 2nd Battalion, Lincolnshire Regt.; three letters written by A.L. Tibawi but publishedunder the name or initials of his friend Alfred Haik; pact of 1919 submitted to the Palestine RoyalCommission, Jan. 1937, with associated articles, letters and press-cuttings; pamphlet “The HusainMcMahon correspondence, or, Palestine is covered by the British pledge of 1915 regarding theArab independence”, Jaffa, 1939; report on education in the Southern District, Palestine Feb. 1941- Oct. 1945; letters from A.J. Arberry and H.A.R. Gibb relating to Guillaume's translation of theSirah; essay on Islamic biographical dictionaries by Tarif Khalidi,1973; essay entitled “The Basicfeatures of Arabic poetry at the beginning of the Abbasid period” by V.K. Belayer, 1960. 4boxes. Handlist.
TOD, George (b.1914) GB165-0349Photocopy of ‘From Pillar to Post. The family and autobiography of George Tod’ who workedin the oil industry, including material on Iraq 1940-1965, Lebanon 1950-1953, Syria 1953-1956and South East Arabia 1956-1962. 1 box
TOMLINSON, David GB165-0360TS memoir written by David Tomlinson in October 2003 describing his arrival in Palestine andevacuation in Operation Polly 1946-1947 and including a brief description of his work as Shell’sDistrict Sales Manager in Aden and the Federation of South Arabia in 1964-1967. 24 photographsof rescue work, mainly showing the clearing of the debris, after the bombing of the King DavidHotel, 1946. 5 sheets; 24 photographs. Handlist.
TOTTENHAM, Percy Marmaduke. (1873-1975). GB165-0285TS copy of a letter, 11 March 1905, to his mother describing the Sobat to Bor expedition; Timespress-cutting, 20 April 1972, of Tottenham’s recollections, as Under-Secretary of State for PublicWorks, of the discovery of the tomb of Tutunkhamun; TS note on the history of the EgyptianIrrigation Service written for the Sudan Diocesan Review, May 1972. 27 sheets.
TOWNSEND, John. GB165-0286TS illustrated unpublished biography of Major-General Sir Percy Cox (1864-1937) with sometranscripts of source material in the Public Record Office. 2 boxes.
TRIPE, William Borrowdale. (b.1906). GB165-0287TS report, 1942, on the political development of Transjordan with a view to the possibility ofapplying its system of government to Cyrenaica at some future time; explanatory note, unsigned,on the background to the creation of the report. 32 sheets.
TUDOR-POLE, W. GB165-0288Photocopied TS reminiscences of the Balfour Declaration and of personalities in the ZionistCommission to Palestine, 1918, with a photocopy of a covering MS letter to Mrs. Grieve, October1967, an explanatory note by Lord Wakehurst, November 1967, and notes by Elizabeth Monroe,1971, and Bernard Wasserstein, 1972. 13 sheets.
Papers, diaries and press-cuttings relating to his service in the Middle East, journalism andexploration, 1926-52, with diaries of trips to Russia, 1930, and Germany, 1933, forming the basisof his published works. 7 boxes. Handlist. Photographic collection.
UNITED NATIONS SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON PALESTINE. GB165-0290TS report of a conference between UNSCOP representatives Mr. Emil Sandstrom, Dr. VictorHoo and Dr. Ralph Bunche, and the Commander and two other representatives of the Irgun ZvaiLeumi, 24 June 1947, giving details of the movement’s origins and policies; TS transcript of ananti-British broadcast, 13 August 1947, from The Voice of Fighting Zion, the broadcasting stationof the Irgun Zvai Leumi. 14 sheets.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. GB165-0291Microfilms of American diplomatic documents relating to the internal affairs of the OttomanEmpire and Turkey, 1910-29, and of Iraq, 1930-44. 35 reels.
VAUX, Sir Richard Augustus. (1869-1946). GB165-0293“Egyptian and Other Episodes, Personal, Political and Legal”: TS unpublished memoirs, 1941,of his youthful travels to Australia and New Zealand, legal training in London and Paris, and latercareer in Egypt, 1903-39, by a former President of the Mixed Court of Appeal of Egypt. 1 box.
VIVIAN, Sir Hussey Crespigny, 3rd Baron Vivian. (1834-93). GB165-0294Correspondence, mainly with Lord Salisbury, and press-cuttings concerning the BritishGovernment’s promotion of reform in Egypt, the difficulties encountered, and Vivian’s removalfrom office as Consul-General, 1879; correspondence relating to Vivian’s transfer to Berne, 1879,and to his appointment as Ambassador to Italy, 1892, and offer of posting to Russia, 1892. 1 box.
WADDINGTON, James Hilary Sheffield. (1903-89) GB165-0323Papers relating to his service in the Department of Antiquities, Palestine, 1932-35. 1 box.
WATERFIELD, Gordon. (1903-87). GB165-0295Research material for a biography of Sir Percy Loraine including copies of correspondence withGertrude Bell and copies of official documents in the Public Record Office, 1921-23; researchmaterial on Sir Henry Layard, including speeches, 1854 and 1868, and miscellanea;correspondence, 1933-74, with Gerald Delany and others relating to Egyptian affairs of the1920s-40s. Handlist. 5 boxes.
WEBB, Cecil Richard. (1887-1974). GB165-0297Palestine Railways Annual Report, 1930; letter, 16 April 1934, from Webb to his wife Beatriceabout his trip across the desert from Damascus to Baghdad in the Nairn Transport bus; photocopyof Beatrice Webb’s TS account of the evacuation of families of British officials at Suez, 1941;ephemera. 18 sheets; 4 items. Photographic collection.
WHEELER, Lt.-Col. Geoffrey Edleston. (1897-1990). GB165-0298TS memoirs “Fifty years of Asia” concerning his career in the Indian Army, linguistic pursuits,Intelligence work in Turkey, Persia, India and Iraq, work for the Ministry of Information in India,and the foundation of the Central Asian Research Centre; TS article on orientalists in the Soviet
WHEELER, Percy D’Erf (1861-1944) and Grace (b.1872). GB165-0355Papers relating to the life and work of Dr. Percy D’Erf Wheeler, especially in the London JewsSociety Mission Hospital in Jerusalem 1892-1944; Published articles mainly concerning missionwork, such as the work of St Luke’s Boarding School for Boys in Haifa and material collectedby Mrs Whishaw including papers relating to the death of the Palestine Policemen Captain J.Mackenzie in 1922 and two reports on the Coptic Orthodox Church in 1985. 1 box. Handlist.Photographic collection.
WHEELER, Brig. Ralph Pung. (1898-1977). GB165-0299MS notes on a visit to Wadi Ballut, 23 March 1946, while serving with the Survey Directorate,Palestine, with maps showing military positions of Wheeler's company there March-August 1918. 4 sheets.
WHITEHOUSE, Frank GB165-0359Letter from Abdul Mecid (last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire) to Canon Frank Whitehouse 9September 1920 and a photocopy of a letter discussing the background of Abdul Mecid’s letter.3 items.
WHITTALL & CO. GB165-0300TS account of the Whittall family and their business, C. Whittall & Co., in Istanbul and Izmir(Smyrna), 1812-1938. Booklet ‘The Genealogy of the Whittall Family of Turkey’ compiled andproduced by Betty and Paul McKernan, Nov 1996. 15 sheets; 1 booklet
WILSON, Henry Beckles. (Canadian journalist). GB165-0301TS copy of a letter, 15 October 1918, from Wilson to Sir Robert Borden, Prime Minister ofCanada, recounting T.E. Lawrence’s description of the capture of Damascus, with comments onthe proposed French mandate and the situation in Palestine. 7 sheets.
WILSON, Miss H. M. (d. circa 1992). GB165-0302“School year in Palestine, 1938-39”: TS account of a teacher’s life at the Arab High School, BirZeit, during the Arab rebellion; curfew pass; notice in Arabic. 79 sheets; 2 items; 13 photographs.
WILSON, (Thomas) Woodrow. (1856-1924). GB165-0303Photocopy of letter to the Hon. A.J. Balfour 19 May 1917, acknowledging his explanation of theAllied case. 1 sheet. (Original in PRO: F.O./208).
WILTSHIRE, Edward Parr. (b.1910) GB165-0318Photocopied TS account, 1984, of his experiences in Lebanon in the 1930s and his friendshipwith Antun Sa’ada while studying Arabic at the American University of Beirut, with a résumé ofsubsequent Lebanese history. 22 sheets. Photographic collection.
WINGATE, Sir Ronald Evelyn Leslie, 2nd. Baronet. (1889-1978). GB165-0304TS copy of proclamation of the deposition of the Khedive and establishment of a BritishProtectorate in Egypt, December 1914; papers on Wingate’s service in Mesopotamia, and Muscatand Oman, 1917-22, with TS of a lecture on this subject, including an account of the Treaty of
Sib, given at the Middle East Centre, 1965; TS article on the papers of Sir Samuel Baker for theperiod 1875-93. 1 box. Handlist.
WOLSELEY, Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley. (1833-1913).GB165-0305
Photocopies of 19 private letters, 7 August 1882-18 June 1885 written from Egypt and the Sudanby Wolseley to H.R. Hopkins, Adjutant General, War Office. 31 sheets.
WOOD, Sir Richard. (1806-1900). GB165-0306Personal and career papers, 1824-98; political correspondence, 1831-98, including service inDamascus ands Tunis; travel diaries and notebooks, including a journey from Baghdad to AliPasha’s camp at Harir, 1836, and through Kurdistan; memorandum of Wood’s services to theBritish Government; papers concerning Wood’s landholding in Syria; family correspondence. Handlist. 8 boxes.
WRIGHT, Sir Denis. (b.1911) GB165-0316TS edited extracts of letters and diaries covering his service as a British Vice-Consul in Romaniaand Turkey, 1939-45 1 box.
WYLIE, Sir Francis Verner. (1891-1970). GB165-0307Duplicated TS copy of a letter, 11 February 1954, from Wylie to E.B. Boothby, Foreign Office,about the policy of the Egyptian Government to the Suez Canal Company. 4 sheets.
YALE, William. (b. 1887). GB165-0308Microfilm and photocopies of Yale’s reports 1-31 (lacking nos.4 and 30) from Cairo, Jerusalem,London, etc., 1917-18, and Paris Peace Conference, 1919; papers on his appointment to Cairo,1917; letter of thanks from Lord Allenby, 28 January 1919; interview with Elizabeth Monroe,1960s; portions of unpublished MS memoir “It takes so long” on Palestine, 1914, and events inDamascus, 27 September-5 October 1918, written in 1938; correspondence with ElizabethMonroe. 2 boxes.
YOUNG, Sir Hubert Winthrop. (1885-1950). GB165-0309Photocopies of papers relating to a journey across the Ottoman Empire, 1913; service in theMiddle East, 1917-32, chiefly in Iraq, but including the Sherifian campaign, 1917-18; the futureof Palestine. 1 box.
YOUNG, J.W.A. GB165-0310TS and MS memoirs “A Little to the East: Experiences of an Anglo-Egyptian Official, 1899-1925”; TS accounts of 3 months in Jidda, 1916, and a journey to Baghdad before the First WorldWar; TS memoir of his Egyptian syce, El Usta Mohammed; TS dramatised account of theappointment and punishment of Egyptian village omdas and sheikhs; off-print of an account ofa journey to survey the Khedive’s estates in Dalaman Valley, Anatolia, published in The CairoScientific Journal no.38, vol.III, Nov. 1909. 1 box.
ZANANIRI, Fr. Gaston. (b. 1904) GB165-0311TS of “Histoire contemporaine de l’Egypte, 1800-1962", Zananiri’s unpublished book on themodern history of Egypt,1965; photocopied TS of an English translation of his unpublished book
ZISSU, Theodore A.L. (1916-42). GB165-0312Two duplicated undated TS reports on the Negev, with maps: “A report embodying the data atpresent available relating to the Negeb: the Negeb and partition.”; “Notes on the Negeb,Palestine’s empty half.”. 2 items.
UNCATALOGUED MATERIAL
Access to uncatalogued material is restricted, please contact the archivist for further details. Insome cases draft handlists are available.
ALTOUNYAN, Dr. Ernest Huie Riddall. (1890-1962). GB165-0006Papers relating to medical work in Syria. One file (94 sheets) containing typescript lectures byAltounyan 1946-1959 is open. The rest of the collection is uncatalogued. 12 boxes.
ANGLO-PALESTINE ARCHIVES PROJECT. GB165-0010Working files of correspondence with individuals and institutions leading to the publication ofBritain and Palestine 1914-1948: Archival Sources for the History of the British Mandate,compiled by Philip Jones and published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,1979; handlists and guides to various collections and institutions; Anglo-Palestine ArchivesCommittee: minutes of meetings, etc. Uncatalogued. 4 lever-arch files; 3 boxes.
BICKERSTETH, Revd. Edward Monier. (1882-1976). GB165-0027Papers relating to his work as Secretary of the Jerusalem and the East Mission,1915-32. Uncatalogued. 8 boxes.
BUTT, Charles R. (b. 1935) GB165-0043TS account illustrated with 4 photographs by Sgt. Charles Butt, 2nd Battalion Aden ProtectorateLevies, of a border incident at Merta, Aden Protectorate, in June 1958. Copies of Al-Aqsa andother uncatalogued material relating to the Sultan’s Armed Forces, Oman. 2 boxes.
GLUBB, Lt.-Gen. Sir John Bagot. (1897-1986). GB165-0118Memoranda, reports, telegrams and correspondence relating to Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan,1920s-50s. 14 boxes. Uncatalogued.
HENDERSON, Alexander, 1st Baron Faringdon. (1850-1934) GB165-0313Papers relating to the formation and commercial activities of the National Bank of Turkey,especially in relation to Mesopotamian oil, and various building contracts and loans; negotiationswith the Foreign Office over the extent of the bank’s influence; correspondents include LouisMallet, Sir Edward Grey, Sir Arthur Nicholson, Sir Henry Babington Smith, H.P. Kingham, andS. de Bilinski. Uncatalogued. 50 boxes.
PALESTINE POLICE OLD COMRADES’ ASSOCIATION GB165-0224Records of the Palestine Police Old Comrades’ Association, such as newsletters and membershipcertificates, 1946-2000; personal papers of Palestine Policemen 1920s-1990s; mandate period
material such as police training manuals, official publications and newspapers 1920-1948; andmaterial compiled by Edward Horne as official historian of the Palestine Police Old Comrades’Association. Uncatalogued. c50 boxes.
VATIKIOTIS, Panayiotis J. (1928-97). GB165-0292Articles, broadcasts and correspondence relating to Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Egypt, 1980s. 2 boxes.Uncatalogued.
