'LETTERS FROM THE PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX, AUG-DEC 1873', Vol 23
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The volume consists of despatches to the Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charles Ross, Acting Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 7 August-27 December 1873, forwarding copies of his despatches to the Secretary to the Government of India, For...
File 1377/1905 Pt 3 'Perso-Baluch Frontier: Piran and Kacha Question'
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Part 3 contains correspondence relating to the border zone around Piran and Kacha. The correspondence is between the Foreign Department of the Government of India, the Viceroy of India, the Foreign Office, and the India Office. Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from th...
File 2902/1916 ‘Treaties and Engagements between the British Government and the Chiefs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf’
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The volume consists mainly of six bound compilations of treaties and undertakings, together with related correspondence and other supplementary material, made between the British Government and the British Protectorates of the Persian Gulf, 1820-1919. These treaty compilations were published by ...
The item contains correspondence regarding affairs in Persia [Iran] in May-November 1918 during the First World War, including: Military actions within Persia, particularly those in northern Persia involving Dunsterforce, the Allied military force commanded by General Lionel Dunsterville The resi...
Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
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This volume is a continuation of Collection 17/5, and contains papers regarding negotiations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq at the League of Nations in 1935, mediated by Italian delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. The papers primarily consist of communications regarding the negotiations submitted to t...
Coll 27/21(1) 'Passports. For employees of oil companies proceeding to the Persian Gulf'
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The file contains correspondence mainly relating to visas for countries in the Persian Gulf for employees and wives of employees of oil companies, mostly the Kuwait Oil Company, Limited (for Kuwait), but also other oil companies including: the Iraq Petroleum Company, Limited (for Bahrain and Qat...
The file is a direct chronological continuation of Coll 28/21 ‘Persia; Azerbaijan; Persia-Russian & Persia-Turkish Frontier.’ (IOR/L/PS/12/3417). It chiefly comprises copies of telegraphic correspondence exchanged between British officials in Tehran and Tabriz, and the Foreign Office in Lond...
The volume concerns the situation in Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British occupation of Bushire. The volume covers: Instructions regarding Bakhtiari. Movements of Wassmuss and German agents in Persia. Situation in Bushire, at Isfahan, at Urumia [Urmia, Iran], and at ...
'LETTERS FROM PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX. JAN-JUN 1872', Vol 20
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The volume consists of despatches to the Duke of Argyll, Secretary of State for India, from Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 13 January-26 June 1872, forwarding copies of his despatches to the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay. The despatches contain...
File 4480/1923 Pt 2 ‘Persian Gulf: Naval Incidents: Visits of British Warships to Persian Ports: Persian Territorial Waters Bill.’
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This volume contains papers, mostly correspondence and India Office Political and Secret Department minute papers, relating to naval incidents in the Persian Gulf, and visits of British warships to Persian ports. It includes correspondence regarding the following: the Persian Government’s obje...
