Search

Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Government of the Russian Empire, 1721-1917 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/5/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/271
Title:
‘Letters from India (Secret Dept)’, Vol. 13
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Persian, and Russian
Date Range:
19 Jan 1871-27 Dec 1872
Extent:
1 volume (983 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/353

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/353
Title:
File 747/1913 Pt 1 ‘Loans to Persia’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, minutes and other papers relating to the advance of loans to Persia. Two different loans are discussed: a loan of £100,000, made by the British Government in May 1913 to the Governor-General of Fars (half of which was to be payable by the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
14 Apr 1903-5 Feb 1914
Extent:

1 volume (236 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/355

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/355
Title:
File 747/1913 Pt 3 'Persia: LOANS. (1914-18) [Cost of Swedish Gendarmerie].'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, Memoranda, minutes, telegrams, and other papers mainly between the British Ministry at Tehran; and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The correspondence is relating to the financial difficulties of the Persian Government and the question of loa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
5 Mar 1914-19 Sep 1918
Extent:

1 volume (224 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/379
Title:
File 1569/1913 Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
This volume contains multiple files with correspondence, reports, hand written memos, financial arrangements, and maps on the proposed Trans-Persian Railway. Most letters pertain to the charting of possible routes for the proposed railway in relation to British interests vis-à-vis the Russian Em...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1911-11 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/18/C10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C10
Title:
No.33. Memorandum communicated to the Earl of Derby by Malcolm Khan, April 8 1874
Scope & Content:
Memorandum written in French and published by the Foreign Office in 1874. The memorandum discusses the situation in Persia, including the interior and exterior threats the country faces, and the potential threat the situation poses to the borders of the British Empire. The perceived exterior...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
8 Apr 1874
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/C28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C28
Title:
Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum is divided into the following chapter headings: 'General Status of Persia', ff 2r-12; 'Persia and Herat', ff 12v-24r; 'Persia and Seistan [Sīstān]', ff 24r-31v; 'Persia and Kohuk', ff 31v-35; 'Persia and the Navigation of the Karun [Kārūn] River', ff 35v-39r; 'Persia and her integ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1879
Extent:
1 file (78 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/C41/5

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C41/5
Title:
Correspondence respecting the occupation of Merv by Russia and her proceedings on the Khorassan Frontier of Persia.
Scope & Content:
This file is a memorandum written by Adolphus Warburton Moore, Political and Secret Department, of historical events and correspondence relating to the occupation of Merv by Russia, and to Russian activity in Khorassan, on the Persian boundary. The memorandum reproduces a despatch to the Russia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
15 Aug 1884
Extent:

1 file (13 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C42
Title:
Report of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, on Special Duty on the Perso-Afghan Frontier.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a report written by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Edward Stewart, Bengal Staff Corps, in which he describes his journeys to and around Mashad, Herat and Merv in the vicinity of the Perso-Afghan frontier, and provides detailed intelligence regarding topography, settlements, com...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1883
Extent:

1 file (40 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C44
Title:
Memorandum on the Russo-Perso-Afghan Frontier.
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a memorandum written by Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, in which the author discusses a proposed delimitation of the Russo-Perso-Afghan frontier by the Russian Government. The author points out that, aside from the difficulties of delimiting such featureless terrain, any artifici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1883
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)

10. IOR/L/PS/18/C54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C54
Title:
'NOTE ON PERSIA.'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a note written by Owen Tudor Burne, Secretary, Political and Secret Department, India Office, in which the author suggests ways to improve relations between the Shah of Persia and the British Government in order to limit the influence of the Russian Government in Persia. Th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Feb 1887
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)