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4411. IOR/L/PS/9/68/142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/142
Title:
Copy of a Letter from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tabriz, to the President of the Board of Control, the Earl of Buckinghamshire
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tabriz, to the President of the Board of Control, the Earl of Buckinghamshire, of 19 July 1813, which was received on 24 January 1814. The letter advises against the planned dispatch of British officers to Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1813
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

4412. IOR/L/PS/9/68/153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/153
Title:
Letter from HM Ministers to Persia, James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehraun, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
Scope & Content:
A letter from HM Ministers to Persia [Iran], James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehraun [Tehran], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 30 November 1814, which was delivered by Ellis on 13 March 1815. The letter encloses a letter from Ellis and Morier to the Governor-General of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Nov 1814
Extent:

1 item (2 folios)

4413. IOR/L/PS/9/68/181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/181
Title:
Copy of a Letter from the Resident at Bushire, William Bruce, in Tehran, to HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter from the Resident at Bushire [Būshehr], William Bruce, in Tehran, to HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, of 20 March 1814. The letter concerns the affair of the imprisonment of the Vizier of the Governor of Fars, Mahomed Nebee Khan [Muḥammad Nabī Khan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1814
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

4414. IOR/L/PS/9/71/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/48
Title:
‘Translation of a letter from Mahomed Khan Commander in Chief of the Forces of H R Highness Abbas Meerza to Major Hart’
Scope & Content:
Translation of a letter from the Commander-in-Chief of the forces of Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia], Mahomed Khan [Muḥammad Mīrzā?], to Major Isaac Hart, a British officer who has been helping to train Abbas Meerza’s army. The letter concerns the ongoing war between...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Aug 1827-Sep 1827
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

4415. IOR/L/PS/10/41/2, f 278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/41/2, f 278
Title:
‘PRELIMINARY KHAZZAL CANAL PROJECT: PLAN OF THE KARKHAH RIVER AT THE PROPOSED SITE OF THE SINN-EL-ABBAS DAM’
Scope & Content:
This plan shows the proposed positioning of the dam on the Karkhah [Karkheh] River at Sinn-el-’Abbas to be built by the Shaikh of Mohammerah with British assistance. Photozincographed from a tracing and produced by the Government Photozinco Office, Poona, 1910.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1910
Extent:
1 plan

4416. IOR/L/PS/10/299/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/299/1
Title:
File 3852/1912 Pt 1 'Persia: Trade in South. Conditions on the Bushire - Shiraz Road. Russian commercial competition in S. Persia'
Scope & Content:
The first part of the volume (folios 1 to 184) contains correspondence and notes about merchandise sent inland from Ahwaz, including reports and statistics on the products taken by caravans and the prospects of using motor lorry to transport goods. Also discussed is Russian commercial competitio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1912 - 10 October 1910
Extent:

1 item (184 folios)

4417. IOR/L/PS/10/409/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/409/1
Title:
File 3615/1913 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf - Lease of Isands (& Muin ut Tujjar's Concession)'
Scope & Content:
Part 2 of the volume (folios 17-187) contains correspondence and notes about a proposal by the British Government, for strategic and commercial reasons, to lease certain islands which are situated at the entrance to the Persian Gulf, such as Kishm, Larak and Henjam, from the Persian Government. ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1914-1918
Extent:
171 folios

4418. IOR/L/PS/10/409/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/409/2
Title:
File 3615/1913 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf Islands as to occupation in case of war with Persia'
Scope & Content:
Part 3 of the volume (folios 3-16) contains a small amount of correspondence and notes about the merits of a Foreign Office proposal in 1915 to arrange an immediate British military occupation of Kishm, Larak, Henjam and other strategically positioned islands in the Persian Gulf, in order to pro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1912-1915
Extent:
13 folios

4419. IOR/L/PS/10/410/1, f 270

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/410/1, f 270
Title:
‘BAHREIN ISLAND. Scale, 1 inch = 4 miles. Longitudinal Section'
Scope & Content:
A longitudinal section of the geological survey map of Bahrain drawn by Dr Henry Guy Ellcock Pilgrim of the Geological Survey of India. His pioneering survey work in Bahrain and other parts of the Persian Gulf was published in 1908 under the title ‘‘Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India’, in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1908]
Extent:
1 map

4420. IOR/L/PS/10/430/2, f 228

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/430/2, f 228
Title:
Map No 3, Sheet No I, Map of Shatt-Al-'Arab & Bahmanshir [Rūdkhāneh-ye Bahmanshīr] including Muhammareh [Khorramshahr] & 'Abbádán I [Ābādān]
Scope & Content:
One of four maps accompanying the Ottoman declaration regarding the boundary line between Ottoman and Persian territories, issued prior to the commencement of the Turco-Persian Frontier Commission, 29 July 1913. The map is stamped 'War Office, July 1912'. Notes: 'compiled under the supervision o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1912
Extent:
1 map

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