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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980

411. IOR/L/PS/10/160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/160
Title:
File 3874/1908 'Railways:-Trans-Persian Railway.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence, despatches, memoranda, notes and reports on the proposed construction of the Trans-Persia railway which would link the European and Indian railway systems. The economic and strategic considerations of the construction of a railway linking Calais, Berlin, Bagh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1907-1911
Extent:
1 volume (267 folios)

412. 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)

413. IOR/L/PS/10/195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/195
Title:
File 3819/1911 'Persia: Major Stokes'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the desire of William Morgan Shuster, Treasurer-General of the Persian Government, to appoint Major Claude Bayfield Stokes of the Indian Army as a financial assistant responsible for the organisation of a Treasury Gendarmerie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1911
Extent:
1 volume (193 folios)

414. IOR/L/PS/10/197

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/197
Title:
File 6/1912 Parts 1-2 Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, and memoranda relating to insecurity in southern Persia, particularly around Shiraz. A lack of central authority in the region had led to lawlessness along many of the roads, including that between Bushire and Shiraz. The papers cover the British respon...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1912
Extent:
1 volume (489 folios)

415. IOR/L/PS/10/214

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/214
Title:
File 283/1912 'Disorders in South Persia: representations from Indian and British firms'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to disruption of Indian and British trade in Persia owing to insecurity. Most of the correspondence consists of representations from Indian and British firms to the British Government asking for protection, and the discussion between the Government of In...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jan 1912-Nov 1920
Extent:

1 volume (169 folios)

416. IOR/L/PS/10/220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/220
Title:
File 472/1912 'Loans to Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence between the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipetentiary to Persia (Sir George Head Barclay, and Sir Walter Beaupre Townley), the British Ambassador to Russia (Sir George William Buchanan), the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey) and r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Jan 1912-7 Jan 1913
Extent:
1 volume (170 folios)

417. 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)

418. IOR/L/PS/10/244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/244
Title:
File 897/1912 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, telegrams, handwritten notes and other papers. They relate to negotiations between the British Government, the Government of India, and the Persian Government, over the status of British Indian post offices in south Persia, which took place before, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1920-1922
Extent:

1 volume (336 folios)

419. IOR/L/PS/10/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/245
Title:
File 897/1912 Pt 4 ‘Persian Gulf: British post offices’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, agreements, notes and other papers relating to the closure of British Indian post offices in Persia, and the transfer of postal services from British Indian to Persian administration. The specific focus of the volume’s contents is a conference, taki...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1922-1925
Extent:

1 volume (229 folios)

420. IOR/L/PS/10/266

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/266
Title:
File 1356/1912 Pt 1 'Turco-Persian Frontier:- negotiations at Constantinople.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the disputed Turco-Persian Frontier, particularly at Mohammerah, and the negotiations in Constantinople to attempt to settle it. The correspondence focuses on: the differences of opinion over the actual boundary at Mohammerah, including several maps demonstrating these diff...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
7 Feb 1912-25 Sep 1912
Extent:
1 volume (436 folios)