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This fonds includes documents like petitions or letters written to the Inspectorship between 1900-1909 (Hijri dates: 1318-1327). These petitions usually dealt with requests for promotion and appointment, salary, gang and bandit activities, demands for tax, complaints about administrative corruption, etc.
The starting and ending Hijri dates for this fonds are: 1318-1329.

This series contains general correspondence of the British embassy and consulates in Turkey (formerly the Ottoman Empire).
Before 1831 the records in this series are copies made from the general correspondence in FO 78
Creators according to the period:
Foreign Office, Consulates, Ottoman Empire, 1782-1923
Foreign Office, Consulates, Turkey, 1923-1968
Foreign Office, Embassy, Ottoman Empire, 1782-1923
Foreign Office, Embassy, Turkey, 1923-1968

This body of document is composed of registers from the records of the awqāf of the Maghariba neighborhood. They mainly deal with appointments, promotions, and dismissals of waqf employees.
The appointment registers (esās/şaẖsiyāt) are an other primary sources to provide us with adequate information on the actual nature of the social and economic activities of a waqf, or on the changes in these activities over time.

The registers are bound in leather, cloth, or marbled paper, and are written in the inaccessible ṣiyaḳat writing style [...]. Ṣiyaḳat refers to letters and numbers expressed in the “stairs” style of writing, used in Ottoman accounting documents to establish a powerful regime of surveillance, inspection, and communication. Each register starts with an index page. In the index, the records are organized under the headings of the district names and the records were entered on this basis. Records are usually written vertically. The contents provide detailed information about the administrative structure of the area, the names of the district, names of the awqāf and their founders, types of work, previous and current names of office holders, reasons for new postings, fees, names of administrators who can request different postings, and the dates of documents recorded in a specific order and sequence.

While the records in the ʿatīḳ registers are arranged according to their administrative units, the cedīd structure is identical to the waqf registers. These registers began to be kept after 1300/1882, with a specific reference to the ʿatīḳ series. These are also hardcover volumes bound in leather, cloth, or marbled
paper, written in rikʿa, rikʿa crumble, dīvanī or tāʿlīk style. The records are usually written horizontally. Four series of registers make up this collection. The cedīd registers are also organized differently than the ʿatīḳ registers and are written in a systematic way in a chart called the “Register of Professions” (Defter Esās Cihāt). All new appointments and other additions are written in the events section of the chart. Thus, this chart acts as a summary of the activities of the waqfiyya.
The records of the Maghariba neighborhood are located in number 515 of the ʿatīḳ registers (Kudüs ʿatīḳ) and in number 160 of the cedīd (Kudüs cedīd) registers. There is also an index register numbered 163 called the Index of Benghazi and Jerusalem, which includes the index of the ʿatīḳ and cedīd registers.

Incoming and outgoing correspondence from the Greek Consulate General in Jerusalem.

• Series 146 CCC, Consular and Commercial Correspondence (4 volumes, vols. 2-5, 1842-1901): 578 dispatches.
• Series 74 CPC, Political correspondence, Jerusalem (27 volumes 1843-1895) : 2603 dispatches.
• Series 206 CPCOM, Political and Commercial Correspondence, known as "New Series") Turkey-Palestine, (vols. 129-138, 10 vols. 1896-1914): 880 dispatches.

Most despatches are typed, and almost always present short analyses (there are, however, overwritten drafts as well as telegraphic despatches without analysis).

The numbering of dispatches is not continuous.

The collection contains the following materials: tsars’ rescripts, relations from Envoys in Constantinople, correspondence between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Russian Ecclesiastic Mission (since 1867 – Embassy), correspondence between the Mission and Ottoman authorities, diplomatic corps in Constantinople, Russian consular offices in the Ottoman Empire (including Jerusalem); correspondence with Russian envoys in other countries, messages on ecclesiastic matters, on Russian property in the Ottoman Empire, on the Russian-Turkish wars, on peace treaties, on the situation in the Balkans, on the police of great states in the Ottoman Empire, international conferences; directives from the Embassy in Constantinople to Russian consulates on the territory of the Ottoman Empire; correspondence with private persons.
The collection also includes thematic files of correspondence between Ambassadors and the Consulate in Jerusalem over several years.
Besides, there are many thematic files on various events in Jerusalem and Palestine.

The selected items are (mainly) documents from the Russian Consulate in Jerusalem, which records had been plundered and lost throughout several wars.

The documents of the collection are classified by year; it includes incoming and outgoing correspondence, comprising those from the Embassy in Constantinople on the affairs in Jerusalem: original messages from Russian Ambassadors and Envoys in foreign states, their letters, reports, telegrams; instructions, notes, and telegrams from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

This inventory includes the transcription (into Arabic and Turkish) and translation into English of the 18 volumes of reports (55% in Ottoman Turkish, 45% in Arabic) from the Ottoman municipality of Jerusalem between 1892 and 1917.

This fonds includes non-political documents about Greece, about the Greek Church, public health, police, pilgrims, and Russians acquisitions and buildings in Palestine.