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1. IOR/L/PS/9/76/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/30
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from William Digges Latouche to the Secret Committee of 13 May 1783
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from a French Minister to French representatives in India carried by the messenger M Cotinal, copied by William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], on 26 May 1783. The letter claims that the King of England [King George III] intends to take over the territories cont...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c. 1783
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/472

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/472
Title:
File 3443/1914 Pt 1 'German War: Turkish and German intrigues in India'
Scope & Content:
Thevolume contains correspondence regarding the movements and activities ofPan-Islamic activists in India, Afghanistan and North Africa during the firstyear of the First World War. The correspondence is particularly concerned withpossible German and Ottoman support for the activists in carrying ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Jun 1914-3 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 volume (175 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/480

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/480
Title:
File 3516/1914 Pt 3 'German War: Persian neutrality; German money for Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns German remittances to Persia, and the Foreign Office's efforts to stop and prevent these. The volume covers: Transmission of money from Amsterdam to Tehran, to be used for German propaganda during the First World War, via Imperial Bank of Persia. Various German attempts to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Dec 1914-2 Oct 1919
Extent:
1 volume (349 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/623

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/623
Title:
File 3579/1916 'Turkey: the future of Constantinople'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers regarding the future of Constantinople [Instanbul]. It includes: India Office minute papers; copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office and Sir George Buchanan, HM Ambassador at Petrograd [St Petersburg], and other British diplomats; draft telegrams from the S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Sep 1916-27 Mar 1919
Extent:
1 volume (259 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/675

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/675
Title:
File 1355/1917 Pt 6 'Arms Traffic Convention: revised convention, 1925'
Scope & Content:
The papers in this volume relate to the revised international Arms Traffic Convention (1925). The papers include: The right to supply munitions to the governments of Afghanistan, Nepal and Tibet should they fall within the ‘prohibited zone’, 11 December 1924; the preference for including all co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1925-29 Apr 1926
Extent:

1 volume (609 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/1017

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1017
Title:
File 5122/1921 'PERSIA:- ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA IN THE PERSIAN PRESS.'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains minutes, letters, memoranda, and reports relating to articles, pamphlets, and newspapers identified as promoting anti-British propaganda by officials and diplomatic representatives of HM Government in Qajar Persia [Qājār Iran]. The papers notably cover the following subjects:...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
21 Aug 1921-26 Nov 1923
Extent:
1 volume (220 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/1037

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1037
Title:
File 464/1922 Pt 4 'PERSIA:- AMERICAN FINANCIAL MISSION'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to the Financial Mission of the United States to Qajar Persia [Iran] and a scheme to create an agricultural bank. The bulk of the correspondence documents the financial crisis within Persia and the impact on its neighbours in British Iraq and India, their comm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
25 May 1926-23 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 volume (437 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/1136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1136
Title:
P 255/1925 Pt 2 'Persian & Baluchistan frontier'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to political and military affairs in Pahlavi [Pahlavī] Persia [Iran], with particular reference to the province of Baluchistan [Baluchestan]. The contents are mainly in English, with texts occasionally in French. Papers comprise India Office Political Departme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
11 Jan 1925-7 Apr 1933
Extent:
1 volume (721 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/327

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/327
Title:
PZ 376/1940 'Turkey: Earthquake in Turkey, 1939.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the 1939 Turkish earthquake. It largely consists of: copies of letters from the Under Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department, to the Counsellor, British Embassy, Angora [Ankara], Turkey, forwarding enclosed correspondence reg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jan 1940-14 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2048

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2048
Title:
Coll 5/84(3) ‘Persian Gulf-Sheikdoms: Anglo-French Air Transit Agreement (Reciprocal Military Air Transit-Rights)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers related to an Air Transit Agreement being negotiated between the United Kingdom (UK) and France to enable scheduled military aircraft to fly over, and land at airfields within, each other's territories. A number of drafts of this agreement can be found throughout the fil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Jul 1946-26 Nov 1948
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)