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61. IOR/L/PS/12/3503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3503
Title:
Coll 28/97(1) ‘Persia. Diaries. Tehran Intelligence Summaries.’
Scope & Content:
Copies of intelligence summaries compiled on a fortnightly basis by the Military Attaché at the British Legation in Tehran (Gilbert Douglas Pybus, Herbert John Underwood, William A K Fraser), and received by the India Office via the Foreign Office. Many of the summaries are preceded by cover she...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1937-29 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (401 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/12/3480

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3480
Title:
Coll 28/76 ‘Persia. Turkey. Turco-Persian Frontier.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, maps and other papers exchanged between British officials in response to a 1927 dispute between Persia [Iran] and Turkey over the delimitation of the frontier between the two countries. The dispute arose when Persian troops crossed the frontier into Turkey. The file’s principal c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 Jul 1927-24 Jan 1935
Extent:
1 file (213 folios)

63. IOR/L/PS/12/3458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3458
Title:
Coll 28/53 ‘Persia. Judicial. Marriage Law. Marriage of foreigners in Persia.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the regulation and certification of marriages between Persian women and British (including British Indian) subjects in Persia. Correspondence is chiefly between the British Legation at Tehran and the Foreign Office. The papers include: multiple copies ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Mar 1931-3 Sep 1946
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/12/3502

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3502
Title:
Coll 28/96 ‘Persia. Judicial. Persian law regarding smuggling. Position of foreigners.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning the compatibility of legal safeguards in relation to the expiration of the Tariff Autonomy Treaty, agreed between the British and Persian Governments on 10 May 1928, and a new law passed by the Government of Iran in 1936 that authorised the use of the death penalty agai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Dec 1936-17 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/12/3513

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3513
Title:
Coll 28/102 ‘Persia. German activities in Persia and the Middle East.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to the presence of Axis-country nationals in Persia [Iran] and Iraq at the beginning of the Second World War. Subjects covered include: German activities in Iraq, reported by the British Ambassador at Baghdad, Basil Cochrane Newton; Germans in Persia, inc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1939-6 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/12/3401

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3401
Title:
Coll 28/7 ‘Persia. Diaries: Meshed/Khorasan Commercial: Jany 1931–Dec. 1940 (Inclusive.)’
Scope & Content:
Printed and typewritten monthly commercial reports for Meshed (also spelt Meshad) [Mashhad], renamed and enlarged from October 1933 to cover the Khorassan (also spelt Khorasan) [Khorāsān] district. The reports were produced by the British Government’s representative in the region, referred to va...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Apr 1931-15 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (669 folios)

67. IOR/L/PS/12/3446

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3446
Title:
Coll 28/43 ‘Persia. Russia & Soviet Legation at Tehran.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the appointment of a Russian ambassador to Persia [Iran]. Letters from HM’s Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary at Tehran, Sir Percy Loraine, record the British Government’s fierce resistance to the appointment of a Russian ambassador. Loraine’s concern ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
18 May 1923-18 Aug 1941
Extent:
1 file (79 folios)

68. IOR/L/PS/12/3484

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3484
Title:
Coll 28/80 ‘Persia. Education; Establishment of a language academy.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence sent by the British Legation at Tehran, reporting on the Persian Government’s plans to establish educational institutions, including language academies, in Persia [Iran], and the status of existing educational establishments in the country: In 1934, a new law authorising the found...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1934-3 Jan 1938
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)

69. IOR/L/PS/12/3509

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3509
Title:
Coll 28/98 ‘Persia. Grant of asylum to political refugees.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence stemming from an enquiry made on 2 August 1935 by the Acting Consul at Kermanshah, Charles Alexander Gault, to HM Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at Tehran, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugesson, as to whether traders and ulema in the town could take bast (asylum) ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1935-18 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

70. IOR/L/PS/12/3538

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3538
Title:
Coll 28/125 ‘Persia; Internal. Hajir Memorandum on Economic Matters.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence produced in response to a memorandum written by the Iranian Government minister Hagir (also written Hajir [ʿAbd-Al-Ḥosayn Hažir]) outlining difficulties arising from and proposing solutions in relation to Britain and the Soviet Union’s occupation of Persia [Iran] in the wake of th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Oct 1943-3 Dec 1943
Extent:
1 file (82 folios)