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41. IOR/L/PS/10/38

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/38
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 1 ‘Persian Gulf: Henjam affairs. Status of Henjam (Persian sovereignty). Persian Customs post. Henjam Telegraph Station dispute’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence, papers and maps relating to the British Government’s telegraph station and the Persian Government’s customs house on the island of Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], questions of Persian sovereignty over the island, and the status of the island’s Arab inhabi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1906
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

42. IOR/L/PS/10/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/39
Title:
File 1408/1904 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: telegraphs. Henjam-Bunder Abbas-cable’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises notes, memoranda, copies of correspondence and other papers, relating to an agreement reached between the British and Persian Governments for the construction of a telegraph cable line between the telegraph station at Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAb...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1904-1909
Extent:

1 volume (235 folios)

43. IOR/L/PS/10/892

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/892
Title:
File 2984/1920 'PERSIA: TRADE WITH EAST PERSIA [REPORTS & NOTES BY MAJOR TEMPLE]'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains papers relating to Britain’s trade with east Persia [Iran], chiefly comprising reports by Major B Temple, British Vice-Consul, Meshed [Mashhad]. Major Temple’s reports cover various aspects of trade including development possibilities, trade routes, foreign competition (not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1920-22 Sep 1921
Extent:
1 volume (189 folios)

44. IOR/L/PS/10/965/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/965/2
Title:
File 537/1921 Part 2 'Persia: Oil - A.P.O. Co's development of new oil-fields; Oil Boring at Dasht-i-Qil; A.P.O. Co's agreement with Kashkuli Khans'
Scope & Content:
The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding agreements made by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) for the establishment of new oilfields at Dasht-i-Qil, an area inland from Genawah [Bandar Ganaveh, Iran]. The correspondence covers: An oil drilling agreement between APOC and loca...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Sep 1921-14 Dec 1923
Extent:
1 item (127 folios)

45. IOR/L/PS/12/3425

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3425
Title:
Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
14 Apr 1924-20 Nov 1935
Extent:
1 volume (323 folios)

46. IOR/L/PS/12/3425A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3425A
Title:
Coll 28/28A ‘Persia: Perso-Baluchistan frontier; demarcation near Mirjawa [mostly copies of papers on 28/28]’
Scope & Content:
Photographic reproductions of letters, memoranda, printed copies of correspondence and maps, relating to the demarcation of the border between Persia [Iran] and British Baluchistan (in present-day Pakistan) around the town of Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh]. The majority of the file’s papers are duplicates o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Apr 1924-12 Sep 1935
Extent:
1 file (285 folios)

47. IOR/L/PS/12/3474

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3474
Title:
Coll 28/69 ‘Irrigation Projects in Sth Persia. Reports by Major W. R. Morton R.E. inc. Suggestion of Sir L. Howarth’
Scope & Content:
Papers relating to proposals for irrigation schemes in Persia [Iran], and specifically for the Karun river [Rūd-e Kārūn] in the southwest of the country. The contents of the volume can be divided into two parts, as follows: Correspondence dated 1933-34 (ff 141-240) concerning a request made by ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Sep 1933-23 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

48. IOR/L/PS/12/3510

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3510
Title:
Coll 28/99 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty negotiations, 1937– (Perso-Baluch Frontier Demarcation)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning the Persian [Iranian] Government’s renewed desire in 1937 to finalise a treaty of friendship between Britain and Iran (also referred to in the file as the Anglo-Persian Consular Convention). The papers, chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordinary a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Feb 1935-17 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)

49. IOR/L/PS/12/3967

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3967
Title:
Coll 30/223 'Survey of Trucial Coast by U.S.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a survey of the Trucial Coast in June to August 1945 by a United States Army Survey Mission. The survey was undertaken in conjunction with Survey Branch Middle East. Correspondence dated August-October 1945 discusses the Survey Mission's request to extend its work into Muscat t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Apr 1945-27 Oct 1945
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

50. IOR/L/PS/20/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/59
Title:
‘Military report on the British Protectorate of Aden and the Amir of Dala’s territories, with special reports on certain other tribes and adjoining border districts’
Scope & Content:
The volume, a military report compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the QMG’s [Quartermaster General’s] Department and published at the Government Central Printing Office, Simla, is comprised of several sections, as follows: section I, a Military Report on the British Protectorate of Aden, prep...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1905-1908
Extent:
1 volume (243 folios)