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Copy of a Letter from HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, to the Prince Royal of Persia, Abbas Mirza
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Copy of a letter from HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, to the Prince Royal of Persia [Iran], Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mirza Qājār], of 20 July 1826. The letter is in reply to a request by the Prince Royal that HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry ...
Coll 29/37 'Bandar Abbas: appointment of Vice Consul; status and jurisdiction; grant of special pension to Mr G A Richardson Indian Medical Department after 30 years' service in the Foreign and Political Department'
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The file mostly concerns appointments at the Bandar Abbas Consulate. The file contains: appointment of George Alexander Richardson as Vice-Consul with local rank of Consul at Bandar Abbas, in 1930proposed grant of a special retiring pension to George Alexander RichardsonGovernment of India's pr...
Coll 29/45(3A) 'Conditions of service of personnel serving in the Persian Gulf: Major M P O'C Tandy'
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The file concerns condition of service of Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy, leaving his post of Political Agent in Kuwait in March 1948. The file also covers arrangements for Tandy's successor. The file is composed of correspondence between the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Secretary o...
Coll 29/117 'Air conditioning of the offices and residences of officers in Persia and the Persian Gulf: including Khorramshahr and the shipping office at Abadan'
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The file concerns the provision of air-conditioning equipment in the buildings of the Agencies in the Persian Gulf. The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Foreign Office, the British Consulate at Khorramshahr, the British Embassy at Tehran, and...
This file consists of miscellaneous reports regarding internal affairs in Persia towards the end of the occupation of the country by British and Soviet troops. Most of the correspondence is between His Majesty's Ambassador in Tehran (Sir Reader William Bullard, succeeded by John Helier Le Rouget...
This volume largely consists of copies of Colonial Office and Foreign Office and correspondence. The correspondence concerns the possibility of the Hejaz railway being reconditioned and extended. A large part of the correspondence discusses the issue of ownership regarding the Hejaz railway. Muc...
This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 89 of 1847, dated 28 October 1847. The enclosures are dated 9 September-25 October 1847. The item chiefly comprises communications of the Chief Secretary to the...
The volume consists of despatches to the Marquis of Salisbury, HM Principal Secretary of State for India, from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Captain William Francis Prideaux, Officiating Political Resident from April 1876. The despatches are dated 26...
This item contains copies of thirteen letters to or from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]: 1. A letter from Brigadier-General George Koehler to Harford Jones, sent from the headquarters of the Vizier [Yūsuf Ẓīa al-Dīn Pasha, Grand Vizier to the Ottoman Sulṭān] at Jaffa and dated 2 ...