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This collection includes papers from the Armenian Community of Syria to the Government of the Soviet Armenia. It is divided into 5 lists.
The documents from this fond were brought from Syria: it means that it includes papers about the inner life of the Armenian Community of Syria.

The Archival City project does not know the composition of the whole fonds and its tree structure.

These sources describe the events, and the manoeuvrings behind the events, in Middle Eastern Politics and Diplomacy between 1904 and 1950. Storrs’ own observations are enriched by letters from Amir Abdullah, Allenby, Leo Amery, Gertrude Bell, Norman Bentwich, Bernard Berenson, Violet Bonham-Carter, Curzon, King Faizal, Prince Ibrahim Hilmi, Sharif Hussein, Kitchener, T E Lawrence, Rose Macauley, Milner, Nashab Pasha, Sirri Pasha, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Samuel, Ethel Smythe, Arnold Toynbee, Robert Vansittart, Chaim Waizmann and others.

The papers describe in detail the various troubled areas in which Storrs served:

EGYPT, 1904-1917. Storrs began his career in the Egyptian Civil Service, holding a variety of posts before his appointment as the Oriental Secretary ("the eyes, ears, interpretation and intelligence" of the Consul) under Gorst, Kitchener and McMahon. He was present at the time that the Coptic Premier was assassinated, during the ministerial crisis of 1914, and played a major role in steering Egypt away from Turkish or German alliances during World War I.

WITH LAWRENCE OF ARABIA DURING THE ARAB REVOLT, 1914-1917. Storrs was involved in the planning and diplomacy that preceded the Revolt in the Desert, shuttling back and forth between Sharif Zaid, Aziz al-Masri, Sharif Abdullah, King Faisal and King Hussein. He gathered intelligence in Hejaz, Jeddah, Cairo, Aden, Basra, Baghdad, Muscat, Oman and Kuwait and it was during this period that he became a close friend of T E Lawrence.

JERUSALEM, 1917-1926. From 1917 to 1920 Storrs served as Military Governor in Jerusalem; and from 1920 to 1926 he was Civil Governor of Jerusalem and Judea. He was present at the time of the "Balfour Declaration," during the 1921 riots, and when King Faisal was expelled from Syria. He attempted to unite Arabs and Jews and brought together The Mufti of Jerusalem and Musa Kazem Pasha al Husseini with Theodore Herzl and Chaim Weizmann. He also promulgated the work of the Pro-Jerusalem Society, bringing together hostile groups to safeguard antiquities.

CYPRUS, 1926-1932. Storrs was appointed Governor of Cyprus in 1926 and gained early popularity by engineering the cancellation of the Cypriot share of the Turkish debt. Tensions soon resurfaced, with the Enosis movement pressing for unification with Greece, and both Greeks and Turks protesting at his attempts to keep religion out of education. Anti-British sentiments were symbolised by the burning of Government House in 1931, destroying his library and art collection.

NORTHERN RHODESIA, 1933-1934. At the expiry of his normal term of Governorship in Cyprus, Storrs was appointed Governor of North Rhodesia. He organised the building of a new capital in Lusaka and toured Barotseland, Congo, South Africa and Zanzibar, before retiring due to ill health.

TOURIST, LECTURER AND MIDDLE EAST COMMENTATOR, 1934-1950. After he had regained his health, Storrs pursued an active retirement - writing, lecturing and travelling the world. His diaries describe visits to Tunisia, Canada, USA, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Balkans, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Palestine, Iran, Libya, Abyssinia, and Sudan. There is a fine World War II diary and a he kept in touch with Arab opinion through meetings with ibn Saud, Aga Khan, King Faisal, Aziz al-Masri, Prince Muhammed Ali, Albert Hourani and King Abdullah.

MS diaries 1903-59; ephemera from diaries; papers on Palestine; Memorial Service and Address by Stewart Perowne, 1969.

To be completed.

This fonds is part of the Archives of Religious Houses (or Archives of convents) held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land.
Dominus Flevit is a Roman Catholic church on the Mount of Olives, opposite the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. The church was designed and constructed between 1953 and 1955 by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi and is held in trust by the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land.

Structure of the fonds: Global extent: 17 files; 1901-01-13-1992-07-31
Series A, Correspondence. Global extent: 2 files; 28 July 1975 - 10 Nov. 1975
Series B, Assets and administration. Global extent: 4 files; Aug. 1971 - Jan. 1983
B-I, Accounting notes and receipts. Global extent: 1 file; Jan. 1979 - Jan. 1981
B-II, Revenues and expenditure. Global extent: 3 files; Aug. 1971 - Jan. 1983
Series C, Holy Masses. Global extent: 3 files; 13 Jan. 1901 - 31 July 1992
Series D, Chronicles and memoirs. Global extent: 8 files; [1970] - 20 Oct. 1990
D-I, Various memoirs. Global extent: 2 files; [1970-1980]
D-II, Registers of pilgrim priests. Global extent: 3 files; 2 July 1958 - 20 Oct. 1990
D-III, Registers of pilgrims. Global extent: 3 files; 9 Aug. 1971 - 2 March 1982

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 fonds is part of the Archives of Religious Houses (or Archives of convents) held by the Historical Archive of the Custody of the Holy Land.
The Church of All Nations, near the Gethsemane garden, was completed in 1924. The Church of All Nations is also known as the Church or Basilica of the Agony.

Structure: Global extent: 56 files; 1900-01-01-2000-09-27
Series A, Reports from the Discretorium – Convent’s chapter. Global extent: 1 file; 1957-02-01-1981-02-03
Series B, Manufacture. Global extent: 13 files; 1919-12-24-1924-07-22
B-I, Receipts and accounting notes. Global extent: 5 files; 1920-01-24-1924-07-18
B-II, Rolls of the workers' wages - Minutes. Global extent: 3 files; 1920-09-06-1924-07-12
B-III, Rolls of workers' wages. Global extent: 4 files; 1920-10-31-1924-03-22
B-IV, Expenditures. Global extent: 1 file; 1919-12-24-1924-07-22
Series C, Revenues and expenditure. Global extent: 3 files; 1973-01-01-1991-12-31
Series D, Holy Masses. Global extent: 9 files; 1924-08-07-1992-07-08
D-I, Charity Mass ("Pro gratia"). Global extent: 2 files; 1924-09-26-1944-06-23
D-II, Masses dedicated to benefactors ("Pro benefactoribus"). Global extent: 4 files; 1924-08-07-1981-02-26
D-III, Masses “pro eleemosyna”. Global extent: 3 files; 1977-02-01-1992-07-08
Series E, Confraternity of the Holy Hour. Global extent: 9 files; 1933-04-06-1992-12-03
E-I, Members and worship turns. Global extent: 8 files; 1933-04-06-1956-11-15
E-II, Masses. Global extent: 1 file; 1933-04-06-1992-12-03
Series F, Chronicles and memoirs. Global extent: 21 files; 1900-01-01-2000-09-27
F-I, Various memoirs. Global extent: 2 files; [Start -Mid. XXth century]
F-II, Registers of pilgrim priests near the Grotto of the Agony. Global extent: 5 files; 1958-06-17-1997-08-31
F-III, Registers of pilgrim priests . Global extent: 10 files; 1925-09-10-2000-09-27
F-IV, Registers of pilgrims. Global extent: 2 files; 1910-03-19-1923-06-09
F-V, Chronicles. Global extent: 2 files; 1945-01-10-1980-06-12

Documents of the Budeiri family, including diaries, personal correspondence, photographs and legal documents.
One photograph selected for the Archival City project.

The following biographical sketch, which was found among Ms. Affachiner's papers, describes her various activities. A matter not mentioned in it, but subsequently indicated in her archives, was the management in Israel, during the 1940’s, of an import-export company, on whose behalf she apparently traveled to the United States after World War II.
Most of Affachiner's material left to the CAHJP has been retained by the Archives and is listed on the following pages. The material was transferred to the CAHJP in October 1966 by Dr. P. Jacobi, executor of Ms. Affachiner's estate and Mr. Ezra Gorodetsky. In May 1968 the CAHJP also received the appointment books of Ms. Affachiner, which were added as appendix to the list. The collection was arranged by Hadassah Kellman in January 1968.

The Matson Photograph (G. Eric and Edith) Collection is a rich source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the collection consists of over 22,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. Over 1,000 photographic prints and eleven albums are also part of this collection.