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Coll 29/28 'Meshed: office allowance and consulate buildings'
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The file concerns the British Vice Consulate at Meshed (Mashhad, Iran). The file covers: office allowance and pay, in 1923proposal to transfer the Consulate outside the town, in 1928, rejected by the Government of India for financial reasonsreport of fire broken out on 14 October 1929 in the Co...
The file concerns the sale of land belonging to the Seistan and Kain (Zabul) Consulate, and reports on the flood in Seistan, causing damages to the Vice-Consulate at Zabul. The file contains: proposed sale of land situated outside the compound of Seistan Consulate, on which a building was erec...
Coll 29/68 'Recess arrangements in the Persian Gulf'
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The file concerns recess arrangements for the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf and for the Political Agent at Kuwait. The file covers: Government of India's recommendations on hot weather recess for 3 months for the Political Agent, Kuwait, 1924 proposal that Political Agent, Kuwait is a...
Coll 29/112 'Tehran Consulate: appointment of Consul'
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The file concerns the British Legation at Tehran. The file covers: Appointmentsof H G Jakins as Consul Government of India wishing that the Treasury at Tehran was continuing to be held by the British Legation at Tehran. The file contains internal correspondence between the Foreign Office, the I...
Coll 29/118(6) 'Meshed: allocation of British Consulate-General'
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The file concerns the British Consulate-General at Meshed, whose building was to be shared with the Government of India and of Pakistan. The file contains correspondence between the British Embassy at Tehran, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Foreign Office, the UK High Commissio...
Coll 35/4 'Arabia: postal communication between Kamaran and Jizan; wireless communication between Aden and Jizan'
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The file concerns arrangements for the transmission of post between Jizan (Saudi Arabia) and Kamaran (Yemen), and covers the establishment of wireless telecommunications between Jizan and Aden. The file is composed of correspondence between: the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Political R...
Coll 35/29 'Persian Gulf: question of payment to Sultan for telegraph facilities at Muscat'
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The file concerns telegraphic communications in Muscat. The file contains: Request of Sultan of Muscat for payment of rent from Cable and Wireless Limited for telegraph cables landing in his territory, 1938 Installation of a wireless set at Muscat by Cable and Wireless, 1939 Licences to Cable a...
Future Policy on the Trucial Coast. Correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (1929)
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The file contains a note written by John Gilbert Laithwaite of the India Office introducing enclosed correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the Government of India, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf concerning the Trucial Coast policy of His Majesty's Government. ...
Coll 29/54(1) 'Serving of an attachment order issued by the Egyptian Court on the Bahrain branch of the Eastern Bank Ltd'
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The file concerns a request by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide copies of a judicial document issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Justice regarding the service on the Bahrain Branch of the Eastern Bank Limited. The file is composed of correspondence between the British Embassy...
'LETTERS FROM THE PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX, AUG-DEC 1873', Vol 23
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The volume consists of despatches to the Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Acting Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 7 August-27 December 1873, forwarding copies of his despatches to the Secretary to the Government of India, For...
