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1. IOR/L/MIL/5/803

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/803
Title:
Correspondence, Telegrams and Notes on Persia, 1917-1919: Situation in Persia
Scope & Content:
This file contains material relating to a review of politico-military conditions in Persia [Iran], following the revelation of Turkish plans to invade Persia in order to reach Afghanistan, which would in turn have threatened the British Empire in India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1917-May 1918
Extent:
3 files (444 folios)

2. IOR/L/MIL/5/804

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/5/804
Title:
Correspondence, telegrams and notes on Persia, 1917-1919: Eastern Persian Cordon
Scope & Content:
The papers in this file relate to the Eastern Persia Cordon. The papers include: the telegram from the British Consul in Sistan on road-making (18 October 1918); The number of British officers in the Sistan and Khorasan Levy Corps (29 October 1918); the possibility of recruiting Hazara men for ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1917-Oct 1918
Extent:
1 file (36 folios)

3. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/MIL/17/15/23
Title:
Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)
Scope & Content:
Military report compiled by Captain LS Fortescue of the General Staff of the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force and printed in Calcutta at the Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1922. The volume begins with a statement defining the geographical area covered by the report. The report is div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1922
Extent:

1 volume (301 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/176
Title:
File 1329/1910 'Persia: Imperial Bank (Seistan Branch)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports and accounts relating to a subsidy arranged for the Imperial Bank of Persia in May 1903. The subsidy was paid by the Government of India and related to the establishment of the Imperial Bank of Persia branch ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1910
Extent:
1 volume (169 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/229

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/229
Title:
File 741/1912 'Persia: Tehran Legation; purchase of land at Gulhak. Additions to Legation House at Gulhak'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, estimates and statements of expenditure, relating to the purchase of land adjacent to the British Legation in Gulahak in Tehran. The discussion in the volume relates to the cost of improvements in the premises of the l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1914
Extent:
1 volume (172 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/307

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/307
Title:
File 4345/1912 'Trans-Persian Railway'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports, a press cutting and a map, relating to the connection of the railway system of Europe to the railway system of India by the construction of railway lines through Persia. The discussion in the volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1913
Extent:
1 volume (163 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/844

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/844
Title:
File 4326/1919 'Persia: the Shah's visit to Europe 1919-20'
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises: correspondence; deciphered telegrams; India Office Political Department Minute and Draft papers containing draft letters, draft telegrams and internal notes; covering letters of the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India (wit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
20 Jul 1919-28 Aug 1924
Extent:
1 volume (262 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/909

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/909
Title:
File 4500/1920 Pt 5 ‘Persia: Situation (January 1922-3)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence on the political situation in Persia [Iran] from December 1921 to December 1923. It is primarily formed of exchanges between HM Minister in Tehran (Sir Percy Loraine) and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1921-22 Dec 1923
Extent:
1 volume (305 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/372
Title:
PZ 2221/40 'Use of wrong code in telegram from Ministry of Economic Warfare to Tehran'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a telegram from the Ministry of Economic Warfare addressed to Sir Reader Bullard, the British Ambassador of Tehran, including related correspondence regarding the use an incorrect telegram code. The telegram refers to a proposed future purchase of wool in Iran.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1940 - 27 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)