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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/359
Title:: Persia
Scope & Content:: This file is formed of two parts, both comprising a set of papers collected by George Nathaniel Curzon during his term as Viceroy of India. The larger set of papers (Mss Eur F111/359/1) contains copies of reports and correspondence relating to Britain’s interests in Persia and the Persian Gulf, ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 7 Nov 1901-23 Aug 1905
Extent:: 1 file (531 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/360
Title:: ‘Bagdad Ry’
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the Baghdad Railway, and papers relating to Britain’s relations with Persia [Iran], and to a lesser extent, the Persian Gulf. Papers relating to the Baghdad Railway include the following memoranda: ‘Memorandum on the Baghdad R...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 15 Apr 1899-9 Sep 1905
Extent:: 1 file (64 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/362
Title:: Report on the Baluch-Persian Caravan Route and Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts
Scope & Content:: Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1897. The report concerns the proposal to secure the trade route between Nushki, in what was at the time British territory, and Nasirabad [Zabol] in the Seistan [Sistan] regio...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1897
Extent:: 1 volume (34 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/363
Title:: 'Report of Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh, Attaché to the Agent to the Governor General of India and Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General for Khurasan and Sistan, on His Journey from Meshed to Quetta via Turbat-i-Haidari, Kain, Sistan, Kuh-i-Malik Siah and Nushki (7th April to 28th July 1898)'
Scope & Content:: Report by Khan Bahadur Maula Bakhsh on his journey from Meshed to Quetta in 1898. The report starts with a description of the circumstances that gave rise to the journey and the preparations before departure (folios 12-17). The main body of the report consists of his account of the journey, writ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 1 volume (74 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/364
Title:: Report on the Nushki, Chagai and Western Sinjerani Districts for the year 1897-98 and on the Development of The Quetta-Seistan [Sistan] Trade Route
Scope & Content:: Report by Lieutenant Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai. Printed in Karachi at The Commissioner's Press, 1898. The annual report concerns the conditions and administration of the region and the development of the Quetta-Seistan trade route and follows on from Ware's similar repor...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 1 volume (72 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/367
Title:: Report on the Preliminary Survey of the Route for the Central Persia Telegraph Line
Scope & Content:: Report by William King Wood, Assistant Superintendent, Indo-European Telegraph Department. Printed at the Commissioner's Press, Karachi, 1899. The report is an investigation of proposed routes for the Central Persia Telegraph Line and is based on a journey undertaken by the author from Shiraz to...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1899
Extent:: 1 volume (146 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/369
Title:: ROUTES IN PERSIA, Section 1.
Scope & Content:: The publication, Routes in Persia, Section I was compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter-Master Gerneral's Department in India and was published by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India, Calcutta: 1898. Section I contains all the routes which commence from th...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 1 volume (206 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/370
Title:: ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION II.
Scope & Content:: The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section II. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Captain J. Vans Agnew, 3rd Madras Lancers (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1895). ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1895
Extent:: 1 volume (57 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/371
Title:: ROUTES IN PERSIA. SECTION III
Scope & Content:: The volume is a Government of India official publication entitled Routes in Persia. Section III. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India (Simla: printed at the Government Central Printing Office, 1898). The volume contains details of all land rout...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1898
Extent:: 1 volume (367 folios)

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