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1. Mss Eur F111/66

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)

2. Mss Eur F111/66, f 96

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

3. Mss Eur F111/361

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)

4. Mss Eur F111/361, f 1

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)

5. Mss Eur F111/361, ff 2-5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/361, ff 2-5
Title:
Kharita
Scope & Content:
The item includes a letter (ff 2-4) referred to as murasaleh (a type of letter), a paper envelope (f 5) and a two piece pouch envelope. These items together are called Kharita. Kharita is an official letter from a paramount power, usually sent in an elaborate silk cover and received with great c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1899
Extent:

Kharita (a ceremonial illuminated letter, a paper envelope, and a two piece pouch envelope)

6. Mss Eur F111/382

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/382
Title:
Notes on Persian Seistan
Scope & Content:
A confidential report on the Persian region of Seistan [Sistan]. The report was compiled by Captain Edward Abadie Plunkett, 1st Battalion (Lincoln Regiment), in the Intelligence Branch, Quarter-Master General's Department. The report was printed at the Office of the Superintendent of Government ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1903
Extent:

1 volume (67 folios)

7. Mss Eur F112/384

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F112/384
Title:
Turkish Arabia: Being an Account of an Official Tour in Babylonia, Assyria, and Mesopotamia, 1886-87
Scope & Content:
This volume is a printed account of the official winter tour of 1886-87 in Babylonia, Assyria and Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) undertaken by Colonel William Tweedie, Bengal Staff Corps, Political Resident in Turkish Arabia (Iraq) and His Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad. The purpose of the t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 volume (35 folios)