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...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 29 Mar 1820
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A copy of a letter from Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from HMS Liverpool off the island of Kenn [Kīsh] and dated 24 February 1820. Following his suppression of ...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 22 Sep 1824
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A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to George Canning, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sent from Tehran and dated 16 September 1824. The letter reports on discussions between Semyon Mazarovich, Russian Chargé d’Affaires in Persia, and the Shah [...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by Mirza Mahomed Ali to H.E. the Kayim Mukam’
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Translation of a letter addressed by the Persian envoy Mirza Mahomed Ali [Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Khan Shīrāzī] to the Kayim Mukam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā'im-Maqām], the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran]. The letter gives an account of Mirza Mahomed Ali’s mission to Tiflis [Tbilis...
