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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Telegraph lines Name HM Ambassador to Iran, 1807-1980

1. IOR/L/PS/5/262, ff 385-516

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/262, ff 385-516
Title:
The Alleged Repeated Encroachments of Persia in the Direction of the Frontiers of Afghanistan, Seistan, Khelat and Mekran
Scope & Content:
Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 85 of 1869, dated 16 March 1869, with an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-40 dated 15 December 1864-15 March 1869. In this despatch the Secretary of State for India is addressed by the Governme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1869
Extent:
1 item (132 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/107

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/107
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 4 'Persia: Arabistan telegraphs; Mohammerah-Ahwaz-Borasjun line'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence, 1905-1911, between officials in the Foreign Office and the Government of India discussing policy options concerning the maintenance and control of telegraph lines in the Arabistan province of Persia. Correspondence discusses the acquisition of control of the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1910
Extent:
1 volume (189 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/108

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/108
Title:
File 3414/1906 Pt 5 'Telegraphs:- N. Persia. Tehran-Khanikan line; Tehran-Shahrud line; I. E. Tel. Dept's undertakings in N. Persia'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly between the UK Foreign Office Government of India officials, reporting on the proposed telegraph lines Tehran-Khanikin and Tehran-Shahrud. Also discussed is the Indo-European Telegraph Department's undertakings in Persia and German enquiries r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906-1911
Extent:
1 volume (211 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/325

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/325
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 1 'Arabistan: telegraph line'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises one part discussing the Arabistan telegraph line: correspondence, notes and telegrams regarding repairs to the Line, and arrangements made with the Persian Government regarding their modernization after the destruction of the tract between Bander Rig [Bandar Rig, Iran] and B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jun 1912-27 Nov 1919
Extent:
1 volume (192 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/326

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/326
Title:
File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises one part discussing the administration of the Persian telegraph lines. The volume contains correspondence, minutes, notes, and telegrams regarding the restoration of the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
2 Aug 1919-21 Jan 1924
Extent:
1 volume (405 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/608

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/608
Title:
File 2976/1916 Pt 1-2 'Persia: Bunder Abbas Kerman Telegraph and Road'
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of two parts: Part 1 and Part 2 both contain papers relating to the construction of a telegraph line and road from Bandar Abbas (or Bunder Abbas or Bander Abbas) [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] to Kerman in Persia [Iran]; Part 2 also includes some papers relating to the development of road...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1922
Extent:
1 volume (370 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/725

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/725
Title:
File 5118/1917 ‘Persia: British Cordon on Eastern Frontier (Meshed-Seistan Telegraph Line)’
Scope & Content:
This volume contains papers about the British cordon on the Eastern Frontier of Persia [Iran], from October 1917 to September 1920. The papers are comprised of correspondence, chiefly between the India Office, the Consul-General at Meshed [Mashhad], the Foreign Office, the Viceroy of India, and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1917-20 Sep 1920
Extent:
1 volume (172 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/18/C91

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C91
Title:
Letter from Sir M. Durand to Foreign Office
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a letter from Henry Mortimer Durand, Minister at Tehran to the Foreign Office, introducing an enclosure from Captain Percy Molesworth Sykes regarding the proposed telegraph line from Kerman to India, dated 22 September 1898. Sykes details the potential starting points for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1898
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/18/C97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C97
Title:
Despatch from Sir M. Durand respecting appointment of Additional Consular Officers in Persia
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a despatch concerning the appointment of additional consular officers in Persia, from Henry Mortimer Durand, the British Minister at Tehran, to Robert Arthur Cecil, the Marquess of Salisbury. Durand reiterates suggestions previously given in 1895 regarding the state of affa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1899
Extent:

1 file (9 folios)