Supply of tents to Tehran, communications in India, and the trade in enslaved persons in Oman
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Enclosure nos. 2-18 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 January 1852. The enclosures are dated 16 June 1851-17 January 1852. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to four separate subjects. Folios 85-97 cover a complaint fro...
Copy of a Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, the Earl of Moira
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Copy of a letter, numbered 4, from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, the Earl of Moira, of 27 February 1817. In the letter, Willock informs Moira that he has appointed an assistant, Cornet George Willock, t...
Copy of a Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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Copy of a letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Chairman of the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 15 December 1817, which was received on 18 April 1818. The letter encloses Willock’s letter to the Governor-General of the Presidency of For...
Copy of a Letter from the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, the Marquess of Hastings, in Fort William, to HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock
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Copy of a letter from the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, the Marquess of Hastings [Francis Rawdon-Hastings, the Earl of Moira], in Fort William, to HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, of 28 June 1817. In the letter Hastings declines to confirm Willock’s app...
File 741/1912 'Persia: Tehran Legation; purchase of land at Gulhak. Additions to Legation House at Gulhak'
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, estimates and statements of expenditure, relating to the purchase of land adjacent to the British Legation in Gulahak in Tehran. The discussion in the volume relates to the cost of improvements in the premises of the l...
File 3540/1914 Pt 4-5 'GERMAN WAR:- OFFICERS LENT TO WAR OFFICE'
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the role of interpreters and political officers on loan to the War Office. The discussion in the volume relates to the: Dates of appointment of various officers as interpreters and press officers Rates ...
File 3540/1914 Pt 6-9 'German War: Officers Lent to War Office'
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the loan by the India Office of four political officers to the War Office. The discussion in the volume relates to the: Dates of appointment and pensionable allowance Range of duties undertaken in the W...
File 3540/1914 Pt 10-15 'German War: Officers Lent to War Office'
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to civilian officers under the Government of India volunteering for military service with the War Office during the First World War. Topics discussed include the activities of officers on loan, such as inte...
File 978/1917 Pt 1 'Mesopotamia: administration; occupation of Baghdad; the proclamation; Sir P Cox's position'
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This volume contains correspondence, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding negotiations and administration, largely between the India Office, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Cox, and the Government of India, after the occupation of Baghdad (Fall of Baghdad) on 10 March 1917. The negotiations con...
The volume comprises memoranda, notes, telegrams, correspondence and minutes, relating to the British Government’s policy on the future administration of Mesopotamia [Iraq]. Selected papers of the War Cabinet’s Mesopotamia Administration Committee, and its successors the Middle East Committee an...
