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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Indo-European Telegraph Department, 1862-1931 Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/10/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/104
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 1 'Persia: telegraphs; Seistan telegraph lines; Meshed-Seistan; Meshed-Tehran; Robat-Seistan; Nasratabad-Koh i Malik Siah; proposed exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence discusses the construction of telegraph lines in Persia. Issues discussed include the implications for Britain's relations with the Persian government and how influence could be achieved. Also discussed is the British strategy for negotiating with the Russians who held a sphere of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1916
Extent:
1 volume (422 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/105

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/105
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 2 'Persia: telegraphs; exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence concerning the Anglo-Persian convention specifically as it related to telegraph lines in the Russian (northern) and British (southern) zones of influence: the transfer of the control of telegraph lines betwen Russia and Britain with reference to the zones of infl...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1908
Extent:
1 volume (382 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/108
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 5 'Telegraphs:- N. Persia. Tehran-Khanikan line; Tehran-Shahrud line; I. E. Tel. Dept's undertakings in N. Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly between the UK Foreign Office Government of India officials, reporting on the proposed telegraph lines Tehran-Khanikin and Tehran-Shahrud. Also discussed is the Indo-European Telegraph Department's undertakings in Persia and German enquiries r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1911
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/325

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/325
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 1 'Arabistan: telegraph line'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises one part discussing the Arabistan telegraph line: correspondence, notes and telegrams regarding repairs to the Line, and arrangements made with the Persian Government regarding their modernization after the destruction of the tract between Bander Rig [Bandar Rig, Iran] and B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1912-27 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 volume (192 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/326

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/326
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises one part discussing the administration of the Persian telegraph lines. The volume contains correspondence, minutes, notes, and telegrams regarding the restoration of the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Aug 1919-21 Jan 1924
Extent:
1 volume (405 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/582

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/582
Title:
File 334/1916 Pt 1 ‘German War – Persia. Shiraz Prisoners – Major O’Connor’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the arrest at Shiraz by the Persian gendarmerie on 10 November 1915 of HM Consul at Shiraz (Major William Frederick Travers O’Connor), the Manager and other employees of the Imperial Bank of Persia at Shiraz, the Superintendent of the Shiraz section and other...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Nov 1915-4 Sep 1916
Extent:

1 volume (260 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/583

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/583
Title:
File 334/1916 Pt 2 ‘Persia:- Outrages against British subjects. Shiraz Prisoners. (Col. O’Connor & others) Claim for compensation [etc.]’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to a claim for compensation from the Persian [Iranian] Government being made by the British Government, on behalf of mostly British subjects who were arrested by the Persian gendarmerie at Shiraz on 10 November 1915, with most of the men being held prisoner by T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1916-30 May 1927
Extent:

1 volume (268 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/772

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/772
Title:
File 5646/1918 'Persia and Mesopotamia: future telegraphic arrangements'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes, regarding the importance of re-establishing telegraphic communication between India and England via the Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia [Iraq] to Mediterranean ports under British control. The papers notably cover the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Sep 1916-1 Jul 1920
Extent:

1 volume (146 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/893

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/893
Title:
File 3237/1920 ‘Persia:- Electric light, ice and condensing plants at Bushire.’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers relating to the electrical and mechanical plants (electric light, water condensing, and ice plants) at Bushire [Bushehr], which were installed during the First World War by the military authorities of the Bushire Field Force. The papers mainly consist of corresponden...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1920-25 Jan 1934
Extent:

1 volume (385 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/1269

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1269
Title:
File 4535/1928 Pt 7 ‘Persia: Telegraphs: Position of I.E.T. Dept:’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers, mostly correspondence, concerning the withdrawal of the Indo-European Telegraph Department from Persia [Iran]. The correspondence mainly relates to negotiations between the British and Persian Governments for the relinquishment of British control of a portion of the I...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Feb 1929-24 Nov 1929
Extent:

1 volume (459 folios)