Letter from HM Ministers to Persia, James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
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A letter, numbered 4, from HM Ministers to Persia [Iran], James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 30 November 1814. The letter concerns the negotiations between Morier and Ellis and Persian representatives for alterations to...
Copy of a Letter from HM Ministers to Persia, James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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Copy of a letter from HM Ministers to Persia [Iran], James Morier and Henry Ellis, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 30 November 1814, which was delivered by Ellis on 13 March 1815. The letter encloses correspondence, between Morier and Ellis and HM Secretary of St...
Copy of Dispatch No. 25 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
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Copy of dispatch No. 25 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tabriz, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 4 December 1818. The letter concerns a Persian claim for payment of the sum of 80,000 tomans, on account of the subsidy previously ...
Copy of Dispatch No.10 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
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Copy of Dispatch No. 10 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 1 April 1819. The letter concerns the arrival of the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Mazarowitch [Semyon Mazarovich], to the c...
Copy of Dispatch No. 18 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, at Cund near Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
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Copy of Dispatch No. 18 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, at Cund [Kand] near Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 14 June 1819. The letter concerns relations between Russia and Persia, and details the activities of the Russian C...
File 90/1913 Pt 2 'Persia and Persian Gulf: Reductions in reductions of pay on consular establishment'
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Part 2 contains correspondence between: the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, regarding revisions of pay of Consular establishments in the Persian Gulf. The subjects are: proposed increase of pay f...
‘BAHREIN ISLAND. Scale, 1 inch = 4 miles. Transverse Section'
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A transverse section of the geological survey map of Bahrain drawn by Dr Henry Guy Ellcock Pilgrim of the Geological Survey of India. His pioneering survey work in Bahrain and other parts of the Persian Gulf was published in 1908 under the title ‘‘Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India’, in Vo...
Photograph No. 5 ‘Possible LG 5 miles E of Salwa Looking S’
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The photographic print is an aerial photograph showing a possible landing ground five miles east of Salwa looking south. It was taken by the Royal Air Force during a reconnaissance of the Qatar Peninsula on 9 May 1934.
‘Nanga Parbat Range looking South from Leychar 43I. C/2. 5.0’
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An aerial photograph taken during a flight by the Royal Air Force from Gilgit to Risalpur on 8 November 1934 at 11:16 at approximately 18,000 feet. This photograph shows a view of Nanga Parbat looking south from Leychar with two RAF Hawker Hart aircraft visible towards the bottom of the print; t...
‘NANGA PARBAT RANGE LOOKING SOUTH. 43.I. C/4. 2.9.’
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An aerial photograph taken during a flight by the Royal Air Force from Gilgit to Risalpur on 8 November 1934 at 11:19 at 18,000 feet. This photograph shows a view of Nanga Parbat Range looking south with three RAF Hawker Hart aircraft visible towards the top right corner of the print; the tip of...
