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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/6/332-333
Title:: File 10: Passports and Protection
Scope & Content:: The sub-sub-series covers correspondence related to the Iranian Government’s order known as the Tehran order, on treating people arriving at Persian ports from Bahrain, Muscat, Dubai and Oman as Persian subjects. It also includes correspondence related to the impounding of British subjects’ pass...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Persian
Date Range:: 1928-1938
Extent:: 2 files (60 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/X/3116
Title:: Persian Plan of the Town and Fortifications of Bushire, previous to the bombardment by the British in 1856
Scope & Content:: Distinctive Features: Labelled for reference. Includes two sections in the right margin and a descriptive note in the bottom right-hand corner of sheet. Inscriptions: Signed by Felix Jones, British Political Resident in the Gulf of Persia, and Political Agent to the Persian Expeditionary For...
Collection Area:: Map Collections
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 map

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur D922
Title:: Papers of Lt (later Lt-Col) David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Emily Overend Lorimer
Scope & Content:: These papers are composed of two files as follows: D 922/1 (which is itself divided into two physical volumes): an account of a journey in Kashmir in 1898-99 written by Lt (later Lt-Col) David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer of the Indian Army (folios 1-262). Copies of letters sent by the linguist, p...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1898-1914
Extent:: 2 files (668 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur D922/1
Title:: An Account of a Journey in Kashmir by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Letters from Emily Overend Lorimer to her Parents sent from Bahrain and Kerman
Scope & Content:: This file consists of two separate physical files as follows: 1) An account of a journey in Kashmir in 1898-99 written by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer of the Indian Army. His account is entitled 'Three Months of Privilege Leave'. It contains his observations on the languages, peoples, trans...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1898-1914
Extent:: 2 files (630 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111-112 Series 8
Title:: Lord Curzon (1859-1925): Early Life: Papers Relating to Persia
Scope & Content:: This series contains papers relating to George Nathaniel Curzon's interest in Persia. Mss Eur F112/365 and Mss Eur F112/366 consist of two notebooks containing Curzon’s handwritten notes on his travels in Persia during 1889-90, while Mss Eur F111/71 contains notes, reports and correspondence mai...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Dutch, English, German, and Persian
Date Range:: 1876-1923
Extent:: 14 files and volumes (1613 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111-112 Series 32
Title:: Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905: Persia
Scope & Content:: The series consists of files and volumes of papers mostly relating to British interests and policy in Persia [Iran], and the Persian Gulf, collected by George Nathaniel Curzon. Subjects covered by the papers include the Seistan [Sistan] region, British trade with Persia and trade routes in Persi...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, German, and Persian
Date Range:: 1891-1911
Extent:: 13 files and volumes (2,300 folios), and a two piece pouch envelope

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/66
Title:: Notes and Correspondence Regarding Persia
Scope & Content:: This file consists mainly of notes by George Nathaniel Curzon on matters relating to Persia. Most of the notes are written on various kinds of headed paper, with the most abundant being those of the India Office, the Foreign Office, the House of Commons and the Carlton Club, Whitehall. Some of t...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: c 1892-c 1898
Extent:: 1 file (84 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/66, f 96
Title:: Photograph of Sultan Massoud Mirza Qajar Zelle Soltan [Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan]
Scope & Content:: Photograph of Sultan Massoud Mirza Qajar Zelle Soltan [Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan] a Persian prince of the Qajar Dynasty and Governor of Esfahan [Isfahan]. A seal is inscribed below the photograph, and the subject's name is written below the photograph in Persian and on the reverse of the phot...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 1890s
Extent:: 1 photograph

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/361
Title:: A Ceremonial Illuminated Letter in Persian and a Kharita
Scope & Content:: The file contains two letters (f 1 and ff 2-4), a paper envelope (f 5), and a two piece pouch envelope (un-foliated). The first letter (f 1) is referred to as khat (standard letter). The letter is a personal one and it is sent by Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan (1880-1901) to Lord Geo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 11 Aug 1895-23 Jan 1899
Extent:: 1 file (5 folios and a two piece pouch envelope)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/361, f 1
Title:: A Ceremonial Illuminated Letter
Scope & Content:: The item includes a letter (f 1), which is referred to as khat (standard letter). The letter is a personal one and it is sent by Abdur Rahman Khan, the Amir of Afghanistan (1880-1901) to Lord George Nathaniel Curzon. It is dated 19 Safar 1313 which is given as 11 August 1895. In the letter, the ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Persian
Date Range:: 1895
Extent:: 1 letter (1 folio)

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