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41. IOR/L/PS/10/965/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/965/2
Title:
File 537/1921 Part 2 'Persia: Oil - A.P.O. Co's development of new oil-fields; Oil Boring at Dasht-i-Qil; A.P.O. Co's agreement with Kashkuli Khans'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding agreements made by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) for the establishment of new oilfields at Dasht-i-Qil, an area inland from Genawah [Bandar Ganaveh, Iran]. The correspondence covers: An oil drilling agreement between APOC and loca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1921-14 Dec 1923
Extent:
1 item (127 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/12/3425

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3425
Title:
Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
14 Apr 1924-20 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 volume (323 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/12/3425A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3425A
Title:
Coll 28/28A ‘Persia: Perso-Baluchistan frontier; demarcation near Mirjawa [mostly copies of papers on 28/28]’
Scope & Content:
Photographic reproductions of letters, memoranda, printed copies of correspondence and maps, relating to the demarcation of the border between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan (in present-day Pakistan) around the town of Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh]. The majority of the file’s papers are duplicates o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1924-12 Sep 1935
Extent:
1 file (285 folios)

44. IOR/L/PS/12/3474

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3474
Title:
Coll 28/69 ‘Irrigation Projects in Sth Persia. Reports by Major W. R. Morton R.E. inc. Suggestion of Sir L. Howarth’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to proposals for irrigation schemes in Persia [Iran], and specifically for the Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] in the southwest of the country. The contents of the volume can be divided into two parts, as follows: Correspondence dated 1933-34 (ff 141-240) concerning a request made by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1933-23 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

45. IOR/L/PS/12/3510

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3510
Title:
Coll 28/99 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty negotiations, 1937– (Perso-Baluch Frontier Demarcation)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the Persian [Iranian] Government’s renewed desire in 1937 to finalise a treaty of friendship between Britain and Iran (also referred to in the file as the Anglo-Persian Consular Convention). The papers, chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordinary a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1935-17 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)

46. IOR/L/PS/12/3967

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3967
Title:
Coll 30/223 'Survey of Trucial Coast by U.S.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a survey of the Trucial Coast in June to August 1945 by a United States Army Survey Mission. The survey was undertaken in conjunction with Survey Branch Middle East. Correspondence dated August-October 1945 discusses the Survey Mission's request to extend its work into Muscat t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1945-27 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

47. IOR/L/PS/20/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/59
Title:
‘Military report on the British Protectorate of Aden and the Amir of Dala’s territories, with special reports on certain other tribes and adjoining border districts’
Scope & Content:
The volume, a military report compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the QMG’s [Quartermaster General’s] Department and published at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, is comprised of several sections, as follows: section I, a Military Report on the British Protectorate of Aden, prep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1908
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)

48. IOR/L/PS/20/125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/125
Title:
‘Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Paper No.7 written by Colonel Augustus Le Messurier of the Bombay Engineers, being a diary of a journey through Persia [Iran] from Rasht to Bushire, undertaken between 24 October and 9 December 1887. The volume was published in Calcutta [Kolkota] in 1888, in Government of India Quarter Master Ge...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1888
Extent:

1 volume (20 folios)

49. IOR/L/PS/20/133

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/133
Title:
Report by Mr G P Tate, Extra Assistant Superintendent, Survey of India, in charge of the survey detachment with the Seistan mission, 1903-05.
Scope & Content:
This file contains a report by Mr George Passman Tate, the Extra Assistant Superintendent for the Survey of India, about the Seistan [Sistan] Mission. Tate details the ways in which the fieldwork was undertaken, and difficulties that were encountered. He also provides notes on communications (roa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

50. IOR/L/PS/20/199

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/199
Title:
A note on survey work in Persia, and survey instruments and equipment.
Scope & Content:
This note was compiled by Captain Charles Monk Gibbon (Division of the Chief of the Staff), and relates to survey work in Persia. Gibbon discusses the survey instruments and equipment which should be used, and offers advice on how to better undertake survey work in the area, for example, by appe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:

1 file (7 folios)