Ext 6996/1945 'Requirements of Persian Gulf Residency'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the supply of items and material requested by the Persian Gulf Residency, including: kerosene operated Electrolux refrigerators; one copy each of the Passport Control Manual, Consular Instructions, and Summary of Visa Regulations; and a safe for passp...
Papers regarding negotiations to amend the borders between French-mandated Syria, and British-mandated Iraq and Trans-Jordan. The papers discuss the boundaries established by the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Treaty of Sèvres, the British push for the inclusion of Amadiyah within the Iraq mandat...
The volume contains papers regarding the Assyrian Crisis in Iraq during 1933. It primarily consists of correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir Francis Humphrys), HM Chargé d’Affaires to Iraq (George Ogilvie-Forbes), and the Foreign Office. The papers document the negotiations between ...
This file concerns control of the South Persian Rifles [South Persia Rifles]. It consists of the following telegrams: Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain] to the Viceroy of India [Frederic John Napier Thesiger], 9 January 1917; Viceroy of India to the Secretary of State for ...
Memorial submitted by British merchants trading in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
This item comprises copies of a despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Duke of Argyll, HM Secretary of State for India, Number 7 of 1873, dated 10 January 1873. The enclosures are dated from 26 March to 6 August 1872 and concern a memorial submitted by B...
Enclosure nos. 2-12 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 1 November 1844. The enclosures are dated 6 September-30 November 1844. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to: a request from the French Post Office for one of the iron b...
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 114 of 1846, dated 1 October 1846. The enclosures are dated 8 September-26 September 1846. The item relates to the recent attempted attack on Aden on 1 Septemb...
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan and Kelat
Scope & Content:
This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 6 dated 15 January 1856. The enclosures are dated 8 December 1855-11 January 1856. The primary correspondents are Henry Bartle Edward Frere, ...
Muscat: Settlement of matters and revival of trade
Scope & Content:
The item is a collection to Bombay Political Despatch No. 1 of January 1868, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of Bombay, Political Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bo...
‘Letter from the Moatimid a Dowluh to the British Envoy’
Scope & Content:
Letter from the Moatimid a Dowluh, Abdul Wahab [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. The Moatimid a Dowluh reports that Mirza Abul Hussain Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Per...
