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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/535
Title:: PRINCIPAL DESPATCHES AND CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO PERSIA CONNECTED WITH THE SUMMARY OF EVENTS AND MEASURES OF VICEROYALTY OF HIS EXCELLENCY LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON IN THE FOREIGN DEPARTMENT. JANUARY 1899 TO NOVEMBER 1905. VOLUME IV-PART IV. PERSIA.
Scope & Content:: Published by Superintendent Government Printing, India, Calcutta. The volume consists of a draft Part IV to the Summary of the Principal Events and Measures of the Viceroyalty of His Excellency Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor-General of India in the Foreign Department. I. January...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1908
Extent:: 1 volume (64 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/644
Title:: Additions to Gazetteer of Persia, Volumes II to IV.
Scope & Content:: This file consists of additions and corrections to the Gazetteer of Persia. Additions and corrections are organised in alphabetical order. Each addition or correction is accompanied by the source of the information. The corrections are accompanied by a memorandum from the Quarter Master Genera...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1896
Extent:: 1 file (185 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F111/694
Title:: Report on the Persian Army compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Lieutenant J.A. Douglas 2nd Bengal Lancers
Scope & Content:: This file is a report on the structure of the Persian Army. Compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by Lieutenant James Archibald Douglas, the report gives the British perspective of the strength and weaknesses of the Persian Army. The report is ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1892
Extent:: 1 file (10 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/163-164
Title:: Papers relating to the Mesopotamia Expedition
Scope & Content:: The file consists of two physical files of papers (Mss Eur F112/163 and 164), relating to the Mesopotamia [Iraq] Expedition of the First World War. The first physical file (Mss Eur F112/163, ff 1-270), consists of: letters to Lord Curzon; printed copies of letters and telegrams, including tele...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 18 Feb 1915-26 Aug 1917
Extent:: 2 files (551 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/250
Title:: Letters and Papers from Various People on a Number of Matters Mostly Relating to Persia
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence from a number of diplomats, army officers, political officers, explorers, orientalists, journalists, businessmen, and Persian notables, many of which are personal friends of Lord Curzon. Correspondents include: Lieutenant Herbert John Coningham, army officer and...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: 21 Feb 1906-20 Dec 1911
Extent:: 1 file (125 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/251
Title:: Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence from a number of political officers, civil servants, writers, journalists, army officers, businessmen, and engineers. Correspondents include: Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, former Governor of Bombay; Albert Houtum-Schindler, former employee o...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and French
Date Range:: Jan 1912-Jan 1917
Extent:: 1 file (148 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/252
Title:: Letters and Papers Concerning the Trans-Persian Railway and Other Railways in Persia
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence, memoranda, and other papers relating to railway projects in Persia [Iran] and the surrounding region. The papers deal with the proposals for, planning, and progress of, several railway lines, including one from the Mediterranean to India, the Trans-Persian Railw...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: Nov 1911-Mar 1917
Extent:: 1 file (221 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/253
Title:: Minutes memos despatches etc
Scope & Content:: This file concerns British policy regarding Persia (and, to a lesser extent, British interests in Mesopotamia). It is largely composed of printed memoranda by George Curzon and other senior British politicians. Also included is a significant amount of related letters and despatches, as well as p...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Aug 1916-1 Mar 1922
Extent:: 1 file (76 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/256
Title:: Mesopotamia: Papers relating to the future administration of Mesopotamia for the Committee over which I presided, 1917-1919
Scope & Content:: File containing correspondence, memoranda and reports relating to the work of the Mesopotamia Administration Committee, collected by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Lord President of the Council, who chaired the Committee. The papers cover a variety of topics relating to the administration of Britis...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 21 Aug 1916-3 Apr 1919
Extent:: 1 file (314 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F112/257
Title:: Memoranda Relating to Departmental Views on the Conduct of the War in the East and the Administration of Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:: The file comprises typescript, printed and manuscript memoranda, dated 1918 and 1920 by: Edwin Samuel Montagu, Secretary of State for India; Arthur James Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (up to October 1919); Henry Wilson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, War Office; and Forei...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Jul 1918-24 Aug 1920
Extent:: 1 file (58 folios)

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