This part of the volume consists of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 52 of 1841, dated 19 June 1841. The enclosures are dated 5 May to 16 June 1841, and relate to affairs at Aden and the surrounding area, and at Mocha. The...
Enclosure nos. 2-3 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 25 September 1844. The enclosures consist of a ‘Memorandum on the Perso [Iranian]: Turkish frontiers, as defined in the treaty of 1639 between Sultan Murad 4th [Murād IV] and Shah Saffer [Shāh Safī]’, date...
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1847, dated 15 January 1847. The enclosures are dated 9 November-15 January 1847. The item comprises resolutions on letters from the Secret Committee recei...
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 55 of 1856, dated 29 July 1856. The enclosures are dated 19 June-12 July 1856. The enclosures comprise: Reports by Brigadier William Marcus Coghlan, Political R...
File 3531/1905 Pt 1 ‘Mesopotamia:- Euphrates + Tigris S. N. Co.; Mail contract’
Scope & Content:
Part 1 of the volume comprises correspondence relating to, as well as draft copies of (ff 325-327, ff 338-341, ff 384-386) an indenture for the renewal of the concession agreed between the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company (ETSNC) and the British Government, for the conveyance of mai...
The item comprises correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration in territories that were part of the Ottoman Empire prior to the First World War. The item includes: reports on exploratory drilling being undertaken by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) at Naft Khana [Nafţ Khānah],...
This part contains papers relating to the question of the removal of the flagstaff of the British Political Residency at Bushire from outside the Residency grounds, due to the objection of the Persian [Iranian] Government that the flagstaff was in Persian territory (this was being discussed in t...
PZ 2855/1932 'Southern Arabia: Enquiry from Mr F.B. Lacy regarding possible presence of mineral deposits.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the enquiry of F B Lacy relating to the possible presence of mineral deposits in Dhufar and Ubar in Southern Arabia, and the possibility of obtaining permission to prospect in the area from the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, with a view to a potential minin...
PZ 2645/41 'Public Opinion in the Persian Gulf. Weekly telegraphic reports from the Political Resident.'
Scope & Content:
This file mainly consists of weekly telegrams from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and His Majesty's Minister at Kabul respectively, reporting on the trend of public opinion in the Persian Gulf (specifically Bahrain, Koweit [Kuwait], and Muscat) and Afghanistan regarding the Second Wo...
Ext 3216/45 'Indian Air Survey Company: question of an opening for air surveys in Persia'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding a request by the Indian Air Survey Company to be allowed to offer aerial survey services to the Government of Persia. The primary correspondents are: Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners; Foreign Office; British Legation, Tehran.
