This volume is an index to the diaries of Sir Arthur Hirtzel for the years 1906, 1907 and 1908. The volume is divided into sections for each letter of the alphabet. For each letter, places, subjects, and persons (mostly their surnames), beginning with that letter and mentioned in the diaries, ar...
This volume mainly consists of newspaper cuttings. The cuttings which are from identifiable publications are from The Times, the Manchester Guardian, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Standard, but the sources of some of the cuttings are not identifiable. The cuttings mostly relate to the Secretary...
Notes on Coins, Weights and Measures, and Conditions of Trade at Various Ports in the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean and the South China Sea
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This untitled volume was compiled by John Pybus, an employee of the East India Company from 1742 to 1768. It contains notes relevant to trade in ports of the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, and South China Sea. Subjects include: The weights, measures, and currencies used in different ports, and met...
Lord Curzon (1859-1925): Early Life: Papers Relating to Persia
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This series contains papers relating to George Nathaniel Curzon's interest in Persia. Mss Eur F112/365 and Mss Eur F112/366 consist of two notebooks containing Curzon’s handwritten notes on his travels in Persia during 1889-90, while Mss Eur F111/71 contains notes, reports and correspondence mai...
The series consists of files and volumes of papers mostly relating to British interests and policy in Persia [Iran], and the Persian Gulf, collected by George Nathaniel Curzon. Subjects covered by the papers include the Seistan [Sistan] region, British trade with Persia and trade routes in Persi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, German, and Persian
Date Range:
1891-1911
Extent:
13 files and volumes (2,300 folios), and a two piece pouch envelope
Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary 1919-24: the Near and Middle East: general
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This series of files consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, and other papers relating to the settlement of the former Ottoman territories in the Middle and Near East following the First World War. A number of countries are concerned, including Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, the...
This series of files consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, maps, and other papers relating to the political situation in Egypt and Sudan following the First World War. The papers concern the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, the Special Mission to Egypt led by Lord Milner to investigate wha...
Printed Papers of the Five Committees on the Near and Middle East
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Series 108, Printed Papers of the Five Committees on the Near and Middle East, is composed of papers relating to four War Cabinet committees and one Foreign Office committee, which cover British policy in the Near and Middle East. The committees, which were chaired by George Curzon, are as follo...
Lord Curzon (1859-1925): writings: Persia and the Persian Question
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This series of files and volumes relates to Persia and the Persian Question, the two-volume book on Persia [Iran] written by Lord Curzon, which was published in 1892. The first file in the series, Mss Eur F112/611, contains letters, notes and printed material on Persia compiled by Curzon as part ...
Subject Catalogue of Publications Relating to Persia
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This volume consists of an alphabetised catalogue of publications relating to Persia divided by subject. The subjects cover a range of subjects but are mainly related to the history, art, geography and archaeology of Persia. The catalogue appears to have been either for or by Lord Curzon of Kedl...
