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41. IOR/L/PS/12/2152

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2152
Title:
Coll 6/79 'Oil: Oil concessions in South East Arabia (Rub'al Khali).'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to oil concessions in south-eastern Saudi Arabia. Much of the correspondence discusses British concerns regarding the possibility of oil being discovered in the Ruba' al Khali [Rubʻ al Khālī], and the bearing that such a discovery might have on the question of the eastern and s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1936-19 Mar 1937
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/18/C18

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/C18
Title:
Memorandum on the Attrek, or Northern, Frontier of Persia
Scope & Content:
The memorandum concerns Persia's northern frontier with Russian Turkestan along the Attrek [Atrek] River valley. It outlines Russian activities in the region (e.g. troop movements, fort construction, and meetings with local chieftains), along with British and Persian diplomatic responses to thes...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Sep 1877
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/9/67/81

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/81
Title:
Enclosure in a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm to the Secret Committee, received July 1810
Scope & Content:
A copy of the journal of a route through Makran [Makrān] to Bunder Abbass [Bandar-e ‘Abbās] taken by Captain Grant of the Bengal Native Infantry between 29 January and 28 April 1809, as part of a series of route surveys on the frontiers of Persia ordered by Brigadier-General John Malcolm. The j...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1810
Extent:
1 item (16 folios)

44. IOR/L/PS/9/69/93

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/93
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 4 May 1822
Scope & Content:
A translation of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to Abbas Mirza [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince of Persia], undated. In response to a rukum [chancery letter] from Abbas Mirza (IOR/L/PS/9/69/92), Willock affirms his planned departure from Tabreez [Tabrīz] to Brita...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1822
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

45. IOR/L/PS/9/69/164

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/164
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 12 Feb 1824
Scope & Content:
A translation of a coded letter from the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran] to Mirza Sauleh [Mīrzā Sāleh Shīrāzī], Envoy of the Prince Royal, dated 4 February 1824. Following a breakdown in frontier negotiations with the Russian Empire in the Caucasus, the letter instruc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Feb 1824
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

46. IOR/L/PS/9/69/247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/247
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 16 Nov 1824
Scope & Content:
A translation of the instructions issued by the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran] to Futteh Ali Khan [Fath-‘Ali Khan Rashti], Beglerbegee [Beglarbeg, Governor] of Tabrees [Tabrīz], for his mission to Tiflis [Tblisi] to negotiate with General Yermoloff [Alexey Petrovich Y...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1824
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

47. IOR/L/PS/9/69/248

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/248
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 16 Nov 1824
Scope & Content:
A translation of additional instructions issued by the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran] to Futteh Ali Khan [Fath-‘Ali Khan Rashti], Beglerbegee [Beglarbeg, Governor] of Tabrees [Tabrīz] for his mission to Tiflis [Tblisi] to negotiate Persia’s frontier with the Russian E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1824
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

48. IOR/L/PS/6/106, ff 6-28a

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/106, ff 6-28a
Title:
Political No. 2 of 1873, Forwarding Papers regarding the Difficulties which Exist on the Persian-Turko Frontier
Scope & Content:
This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 3 January 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 1 February 1873, forwarding copies of papers (some of which are in French) regardin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
3 Jan 1873-1 Feb 1873
Extent:
1 item (31 folios)

49. IOR/L/PS/12/3497

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3497
Title:
Coll 28/91 ‘Persia. Iran-Baluchistan Frontier; Violation of the frontier by British levies and Iranians’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, papers and maps relating to territorial infringements by British and Persian subjects (levies, troops, customs officials) across the border dividing Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan (part of present-day Pakistan). Correspondence is chiefly exchanged between the British Legat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1930-19 Jul 1939
Extent:
1 file (272 folios)

50. IOR/L/PS/9/70/79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/70/79
Title:
‘Translation of a letter addressed by General Wilhemenoff to the Prince Royal’
Scope & Content:
The translation of a letter from General Wilhemenoff, deputy to the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov], to the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran] [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], in reply to the Prince Royal’s letter concerning the fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1826?
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)