‘Translation of a letter from the Envoy to His Excellency the Kaim Makum’
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Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Kaim Makum [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām, the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia]. The letter concerns the payment of reparations by Persia as part of the p...
‘Translation of a Firman from the Shah to H. R. H. Abbas Meerza’
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Translation of a firman [a letter or order] from the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] to Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia]. The Shah remonstrates against Abbas Meerza, expressing his surprise that he has not yet concluded peace in the war between Persia [Iran] an...
Letters from Harford Jones to Jacob Bosanquet, John Blankett and Robert Abbott
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Copies of three letters from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Vienna and Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad in July-August 1798: 1. A letter to Jacob Bosanquet, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Vienna and dat...
File 600/1905 Pt 3 'Aden Hinterland: Situation; Withdrawal of Political Agent from Dthala; Treaties with Haushabi, Kotaibi and Alawi chiefs'
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Part 3 of the file relates to the withdrawal of troops and the Political Agent from Dthala [al-Ḍāli‘]. The correspondents include: Major-General Ernest de Brath, Political Resident at Aden; Government of India, Foreign Department; Government of Bombay; India Office, London; Foreign Office, Lond...
Ext 6588/47 'Air action in Aden Protectorate: copy of Secretary of State for Colonies minute to PM, 9 May 1947: note by External Department on Bombing on North West Frontier'
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This file contains correspondence and minutes regarding conflict in the Aden Protectorate and on the North West Frontier. The minutes cover the following: an attack on Ahwar-Habban in the western part of the Aden Protectorate; air actions and future policy; the Dhala incident and recommended act...
Coll 1/46 'Aden. Transfer of control to HMG: certain points raised by Col Reilly for consideration in the event of separation from Government of India'
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The file contains papers regarding plans for the transfer of the civil administration of Aden to the Colonial Office. The material dated 1933 comprises correspondence between the Aden Chief Commissioner (Bernard Reilly) and the India Office (John Gilbert Laithwaite) regarding points to be addre...
Coll 5/25(1) ‘Air Route to India (Arab Coast): Bahrain & Koweit Civil Air Agreements; Morton's Air Services Ltd’
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The file is concerned with flights by Morton's Airlines over the Arabian Coast route, and an amendment to article three of the Bahrain and Kuwait Civil Air Agreements removing the words 'by the Sheikh'. The main correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Ministry of Civil...
Coll 5/45 ‘Persian Gulf: Replacement of sea-plane unit in the Persian Gulf by a land-plane unit based on Bahrain’
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The file contains correspondence related to a proposal to transfer Royal Air Force No 203 (General Reconnaissance) Squadron from Basra to Bahrain, and in the process convert the unit from seaplanes to landplanes. It also documents the postponement of this transfer, as a result of the outbreak of...
Coll 17/14 'Railways: termination of appointment of Mr E R Perry as Agent of Iraqi railways at Bombay; working of Iraqi railways'
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Correspondence regarding the ownership and management of the Iraqi Railways. The file opens with a small amount of correspondence regarding the decision to dispense with the services of Edward Ralph Perry, the Agent of the Iraqi Railways in Bombay, and also to appoint Mr A Rawlinson to the posit...
The file concerns motor boats and launches for the Persian Gulf Residency and Agencies. The file covers: replacement of the Bushire Residency Motor Launch by a combined motor and sailing dhow, in 1930 expenditure for launches at the Bundar Abbas and Bahrain agencies, sale of old launches new mo...
