Copy of a Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in camp at Ardebil, to the Secretary to HM Mission to Persia, Major George Willock, and the Acting Secretary and Surgeon to HM Mission to Persia, John McNeil
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Copy of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in camp at Ardebil [Ardabil], to the Secretary to HM Mission to Persia, Major George Willock, and the Acting Secretary and Surgeon to HM Mission to Persia, Dr John McNeil [McNeill], of 25 August 1826. In the letter Henry...
Copy of a Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in camp near Aher, to the Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone
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Copy of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in camp near Aher [Ahar], to the Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], Mountstuart Elphinstone, of 10 September 1826. In the letter Willock praises the Resident at Bushire [Būshehr], Colonel Ephriam Gerrish Stannus, for his co-op...
Letter from the Shah of Persia, Futteh Ali Shah, to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and a Translation of the Letter
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Letter from the Shah of Persia [Iran], Futteh Ali Shah [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, written in the month of Sufr [Safar] AH 1242 [c September 1826] (IOR/L/PS/9/70/130 (1)), and a translation of the letter (IOR/L/PS/9/70/130 (2)). In...
Copy of Dispatch No. 1 from HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, to HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock
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Copy of dispatch No. 1 from HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, of 20 July 1826. In the letter, Canning indicates that the King of the United Kingdom has given Willock the permission to accept the Order of the Lion a...
Letter from the Shah of Persia to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and a Translation of the Letter
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A letter from the Shah of Persia [Iran] [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company (IOR/L/PS/9/70/191(1)), and a translation of the letter (IOR/L/PS/9/70/191(2)). In the letter, the Shah petitions on behalf of Captain Isaac Hart, who has been in Pe...
Coll 29/45(3E) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf: R McC Andrew and P D Stobart'
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The file concerns pay and allowances of R McC Andrew and P D Stobart, officers employed by the Foreign Office and sent for training at the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, in 1947. The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Commonwealth R...
‘Compass sketch With Cavalry Sketching case from camp at Wadi Haban up the old Himiaritic road to Jabal Harir and return by footpath from Al Masna’s’
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Reproduction of a map in black ink showing the landscape between Wadi Haban [Wādī Ḩabbān] and Jabal Harir [Jabal Ḩarīr], Yemen. The map is signed by Major Crawford, Royal Artillery, and dated 17-20 December 1903. It indicates an ascent of approximately 2,000 feet, and is marked with form lines (...
Note (with envelope) from the Commander-in-Chief in India, Horatio Herbert Kitchener, to Colonel Wilfrid Malleson
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Handwritten note (with envelope) addressed to Colonel [Wilfrid] Malleson (of the Intelligence Branch, Indian Army Headquarters), written by the Commander-in-Chief in India, Horatio Herbert Kitchener. The note refers to the ‘state of the army’, and a disagreement between Kitchener and an individu...
Affairs in the Persian Gulf: Proceedings of the British at Bahrein in 1869
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Despatch from the Government of Bombay, Political Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 1 of 1870, dated 22 January 1870, including an abstract of contents and enclosures dated 9 December 1869. The enclosures concern the proceedings in Bahrain [also spelled Bahrein in this item] of...
