Coll 6/18 'Arabia: Migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan'
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This file is concerned with the migration of Hejazis from Hejaz to Transjordan. The file consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence, which discuss rumours of disaffection among Hejazi tribesmen, and of their desertion from the Hejaz to Transjordan. The correspondenc...
Papers concerning affairs on the northeast frontiers of Persia [Iran], with a focus on Iranian Azerbaijan, sent to and from British Government officials based in Persia, including those at the British Consulate at Tabriz and the British Embassy in Tehran, and the Foreign Office in London. The c...
Coll 28/28 ‘Persia. Perso-Baluchistan Frontier. Demarcation near Mirjawa.’
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Correspondence, memoranda, maps and other papers relating to the establishment of a precise position of the frontier between Persia [Iran], British Baluchistan [in present-day Pakistan], and Afghanistan, arising in response to the proposed transfer to Persian ownership of the Mirjawa [Mīrjāveh] ...
Coll 28/29 ‘Persia. Russia. Russian Refugees in Persia.’
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Correspondence and papers collected in response to an influx of refugees arriving in the northern provinces of Persia [Iran] from Soviet Russia, reaching a peak during 1932 and 1933, as a result of a chronic famine affecting parts of southern Russia. Extracts from consular diaries and intelligen...
[Affairs in] Arabia: Survey of the Kateef coast and complaint by [the] Turkish Government that [a] survey party landed on the Nejd coast.
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 169 of 1873, dated 2 October 1873, containing enclosures dated 28 July-2 October 1873. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the survey of the coast of Khateef [al-Qatif...
The Case of the Dhow Belonging to Ras-el Khyma which was Captured by HMS Dryad in May 1871
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Despatch from the Government of Bombay, Political Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 19 of 1872, dated 6 May 1872, comprising an enclosure dated 20 November 1871. The enclosure consists of a letter from John Kirk, Acting Political Agent and HM Consul, Zanzibar, to the Government...
Persian Gulf Matters: Strengthening the Detachment of Troops at Karrack and Defending the Residency at Bushire
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This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 30 of 1838, dated 24 October 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Marseilles 20 December 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are dated ...
Political No. 141 of 1873, Forwarding a Copy of a Letter From the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia to HM Ambassador at Constantinople, relating to the Prohibition by the Turkish Government of the Exportation of 'Arab Horses' from Nejd for a Period of Seven Years
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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 4 August 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department 3 September 1873, forwarding a copy of a letter from the Political Agent in Turkish Arab...
Political No. 198 of 1873, Forwarding Copies of a Letter from Sir Bartle Frere to Earl Granville, Regarding Consulate Arrangements in Jedda and Proposals to Establish Consulates for 'Somali Land' and Ports of the Red Sea
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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 29 October 1873 and received via Brindisi on 24 November, forwarding copies of a letter from Sir Henry Bartle Frere to Earl Granville, Secretary of Stat...
Copy of a Letter from Captain John Malcolm, Representative of the Government of India to Persia, to the Secret Committee
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A copy of a letter from Captain John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Shiraz [Shirāz] and dated 16 June 1800. The letter reports Malcolm's arrival and reception in Shiraz, as ...
