Copy of a Letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, David Wilson, in Bushire, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
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Copy of a letter from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, David Wilson, in Bushire [Bushehr], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 18 April 1827. In the letter Wilson reports that a courier carrying a packet of letters has been r...
Copy of an Official Note from the British Ministers to Persia, Henry Ellis and James Morier, in Tehraun, to the Ministers of the Persian Government
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Copy of an official note from the British Ministers to Persia [Iran], Henry Ellis and James Morier, in Tehraun [Tehran], to the Ministers of the Persian Government, of 27 November 1814, written during treaty negotiations [for the Definitive Treaty of 1814]. Ellis and Morier propose that commerci...
'REPORT ON A TOUR IN TURKISH ARABIA AND KURDISTAN APRIL-MAY 1910 BY J. G. LORIMER, ESQ., C.I.E., I.C.S., British Political Resident in Turkish Arabia and His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General at Baghdad.'
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Tour report written by John Gordon Lorimer from notes taken during his journey from 18 April to 22 May 1910. The report comprises information on topographical matters. The report is divided into sections describing each day's journey, giving start and end destinations, time travelled and topogr...
Sketch of Shekh Said to Accompany Lt. Col: Stace's Report
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A map created by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Vincent Stace to accompany a report in which he discusses the possibility of a French occupation of Shekh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd]. The map shows a region around Ras Shekh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd] and Perim Island at the south-western tip of the Arabia...
Map indicating routes taken by the Masqat [Muscat] arms trade from the Persian (Makran) coast and inland, into Persia, Baluchistan and Afghanistan. The routes are marked with solid red lines, and annotated with red letters and numbers which are identified in the accompanying report (ff 22-23). Ma...
File 2764/1904 Pt 4 'Baghdad Railway: Anglo-Turkish negotiations; proposals of Turkish Govt; status of Kowait'
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, maps and notes, relating to negotiations over the proposed Berlin to Baghdad Railway in the period 1911-1912. The correspondence concerns three broad topics: Anglo-Turkish negotiations proposals of the ...
PZ 2246/1932 'Communications between London and the Middle East'
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The file contains papers relating to communications between London and the Middle East. It mainly consists of copies of correspondence sent to the India Office from the Foreign Office. This largely consists of copies of correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Br...
PZ 25/1935 'Persia: British Legation Tehran: appointment of Ministers'
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The file contains papers relating to changes of Ministers heading the British Legation at Tehran, Persia [Iran]. It mainly consists of covering papers from the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State, India, enclosing copies of telegrams and letters from His ...
The file contains periodical reports by the British Military Attaché at Kabul (Colonel Alexander Stalker Lancaster) on the Afghan Air Force, they cover the period 1 March 1938 to 31 October 1947. There is a gap for the period 2 May 1938 to 31 October 1940 for which no reports are present in the ...
Coll 6/1 'Hejaz-Nejd: Franco-Hejaz-Nejd Treaty and Relations Hejaz-Syria Treaty.'
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This file primarily concerns relations between France and the Hejaz-Nejd (later Saudi Arabian) Government. The beginning of the file relates to treaty negotiations between France and Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] Hejaz-Nejd Government, as well as negotiatio...
