UNESCO correspondence: (1) proposal [unsuccessful] for an International Commission of UNESCO for Historical Studies of Cartography and navigation; (2) request [unsuccessful] for financial assistance for Imago Mundi; (3) comments by Bagrow on UNESCO's planned 'Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind'.
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Correspondents are: Armando Cortesão; Johannes Keuning; Ricardo Levene; Hans von Mžik; C Northcote Parkinson; Jean Pelseneer; 'Dr Reparaz' [presumably Gonzalo de Reparaz Ruiz]; Pierre Sergescu; Henry R Wagner; Herr Wieder. Includes a day ticket to the United Nations General Assembly, Palais de ...
Enclosure nos. 2-4 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of India, dated 15 July 1838. The enclosures are dated 17 April-23 June 1838. Enclosure no. 3 (ff 339-43) consists of a report by the Russian Agent [Yan Vitkevich/Jan Prosper Witkiewicz] on his mission to Candahar [Kandaha...
Government of India Foreign Department letters marked ‘Secret’, ‘General’, or ‘Political’ and sent to His Grace the Duke of Argyll, Her Majesty’s Secretary of State for India, with enclosures. The papers are reporting on the state of affairs in a number of regions including: the Khanate of Khiva...
Letter from Colonel Nauzemiff to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, and a Translation of the Letter
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A letter, in Russian, from Colonel Nauzemiff [Colonel Fyodr Nazumov], a Russian prisoner of war, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 28 February 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/213 (2)), and an English translation of the letter (IOR/L/PS/9/70/213 (...
File 464/1922 Pt 3 'Persia:- Financial Situation. Quarterly Reports of the American Advisers.'
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This volume relates to the financial situation in Qajar [Qājār] Persia [Iran]. It includes quarterly reports prepared by financial advisers from the United States of America under the supervision of the Persian Minister of Finance. These were submitted to the Political Department, India Office, b...
Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, treaties and other papers, reporting on commercial relations between Persia [Iran] and Russia. The papers cover: a deterioration in relations between Persia and Russia in 1932-33, culminating in the ban on Russian imports into Persia; the Persian Government’s ...