‘Translation of a Ruckhum from H.R.H. Abbas Mirza to Lieut Col. Macdonald Envoy at the Court of Persia’
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Translation of a ruckhum [raqm, also known as a raqim, a letter or an order] from Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated January [1828]. Abbas Mirza indicates that the site nom...
‘Copy of a letter addressed by Lieut. Colonel Macdonald Envoy to H. E. Mirza Abul Hassan Khan. Minister for Foreign Affairs’
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Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mirza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī]. Macdonald Kinneir reports that following news of the arrival of the money intende...
Dispatch No. 34 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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Dispatch No. 34 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 28 March 1828, which was received on 11 June 1828. The letter originally enclosed copies of Macdonald Kinneir’s...
File 90/1913 Pt 1 'Persia and Persian Gulf: Reductions in expenditure on Agencies and Consulates'
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Part 1 contains documents from the Foreign Department of the Government of India, and correspondence between: the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Secretary of State for India, the British Consul for Seistan [Sīstān] and Kain, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, regarding the re...
Coll 29/8 'Rates of percentage charges for special and ordinary repairs to Persian Gulf buildings'
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The file concerns repairs to the buildings in the Persian Gulf. The file covers repairs to the Consulate buildings at Shiraz, and revision of percentage charges for repairs to the buildings in the Persian Gulf. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Political Reside...
Coll 29/41 'Diplomatic and consular expenditure: statements of petty increases and regularisation of excess expenditure'
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The file concerns expenditure on Diplomatic and Consular Services in Iran and in the Persian Gulf. The file contains regularization of excess expenditure incurred between 1944 and 1945 over the fixed sanctioned Contract Grants. The file is composed of correspondence between the Foreign Office,...
Coll 29/89 'Method of addressing the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf: arrangements for addressing officiating Political Resident when the Political Resident is on leave in England'
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The file concerns the preferred ways to address the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. The file is composed of correspondence between the Ministry of Information, Foreign Office, the India Office, the Government of India, the British Council, and the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf.
Political No. 37 of 1874, Drawing Attention to Paragraph 18 of the Report of the Aden Assistant Resident's Report of his Visit to Hodeida, in which he States that 'Slaves' are Conveyed from that Port to Busreh and the Persian Gulf in Turkish Men-of-War
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This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 20 February 1874 and received by the India Office Political Department on 16 March 1874. With reference to the letter from the Resident at Aden, No. 15-5...
Political No. 1 of 1875, Forwarding a Copy of Correspondence on the Subject of Interpreters to be Employed on the East Coast of Africa
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This item consists of a copy of a Political Letter from the Government of India’s Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 1 January 1875 (received by the India Office on 25 January 1875, with a copy sent to the Foreign Office on 20 February 1875), forwarding a copy of corres...
Secret No. 4 of 1875, Regarding Publicity at Aden and Bombay for the Scheme for the Supply of Interpreters on the East Coast of Africa
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This item consists of a copy of a Secret Letter from the Government of India’s Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 15 January 1875 (received by the India Office Political Department on 8 February 1875). The Secret Letter is in reference to the Secretary of State for Indi...
