A translation of a letter from Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, undated. The letter relates the abrogation of the third and fourth article...
A copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, undated. The letter relates to the abrogation of the third and fourth articles of...
A translation of a letter from Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, undated. The letter relates the abrogation of the third and fourth article...
A translation of a letter from the Ameen ool Dowleh [‘Abdāllah Khān Amīn al-Dawlah, Prime Minister of Persia], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, undated. The letter concerns the repayment of 200,000 tomans previously paid to the Prince ...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 17 January 1800. The letter reports the transit of Elgin’s dispatches to India via Bagdad and Bussora [Basra] and congratulates Elgin on his appoin...
A report written in French and dated Bagdad [Baghdad], 23 April 1802, relaying information received from a messenger from Tahran [Tehran] concerning the Kingdom of the Agvans [Afghanistan]. The report describes a siege of Herat led by Chah Zadé Kaisser [Shāhzādeh Qaiṣar] and rumours of attacks...
File 4919/1912 Pt 2 Abu Musa Oxide Concession: SOS telegram informing Sir P Cox that FO wish to have the German files seized at Bushire
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Secretary of State telegram (7 February 1916) informing Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, that the Foreign Office would like the papers on the Abu Musa concession obtained from the German Consulate, Bushire.
PZ 831/40 'Rumour (unfounded) that Americans had been warned to leave Persia before the end of November 1939'
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This file contains correspondence between British officials relating to a rumour that American citizens had been advised by their Consuls to leave Iran, as the American Consulate would not be responsible for their safety after November 1939. The main correspondents are the Central Intelligence ...
PZ 1682/1940 'Propaganda: tour of the Middle East by Mr Rushbrook-Williams, Ministry of Information, for discussion of propaganda problems'
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This file contains correspondence relating to a tour of the Middle East by Laurence Frederic Rushbrook-Williams in 1940 to discuss propaganda problems in the area and improve the co-ordination of pro-British propaganda. The main correspondents in the file are Rushbrook-Williams (Adviser for Midd...
PZ 2186/40 'Iraq: government's desire for copies of certain treaties and agreements with Arab rulers not in Aitchison's Treaties'
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This file contains correspondence relating to the Iraqi Government's desire for copies of certain treaties and agreements, made between HM Government and Arab rulers, which do not appear in Charles Umpherston Aitchison's Treaties. Folios 9-12 provide a list of treaties relating to Arab principal...
