Copies of Dispatches Nos. 59 and 60 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
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Copies of dispatches Nos. 59 and 60 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton. In dispatch No. 59, of 12 August 1827, Macdonald Kinneir reports the transmission of a letter, ad...
Coll 29/26 'Appointment of officials of Imperial and International Communication Co as consular officers at Jask and Charbar'
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The file concerns consular functions carried out in Persia by officials of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and Imperial and International Communications Limited. The file covers: revised scale of allowances for the performance of political duties by officers of the Indo-European Telegrap...
Coll 29/62 'Kerman: appointment of consul and clerical staff; opening of consular office at Yezd'
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The file concerns appointments at the British Consulate at Kerman. The file contains correspondence related to: appointment of C H Lincoln as Consul, Kerman, 1932 appointment of Falconer as Consul, Kerman, 1937 appointment of H A N Barlow as Consul, Kerman, 1942 proposal to revive post of Vice-...
Coll 29/93 'Consular arrangements in East Persia: British vice-consulate at Birjand; closed and included in Zabul Consular district'
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The file concerns the Vice-Consulate at Birjand. The file covers: purchase of furniture for the HM Consulate at Birjand and for the Vice Consul and Medical Officer at Sistan, 1929-30 closure of the Vice-Consulate at Birjand and abolition of Vice-Consul post, 1937-38. The file is composed solel...
Coll 29/104 'Appointment of an Indian to the Tehran Legation (First Secretary or Trade Commissioner)'
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The file concerns the proposal of the Government of India to appoint an Indian as Trade Representative (or First Secretary) at the HM Legation at Tehran. After discussions and arrangements, the appointment was made in 1945. The file is composed solely of internal correspondence between the Poli...
The volume contains manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, intelligence reports and financial statements relating to diplomatic, military and logistical preparations for the British-led invasion of Afghanistan by the so-called Army of the Indus. Pac...
File 869/1904 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa and Aden'
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This volume is the second of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The volume contains copies of ‘The Somaliland Registration of Vessels ...
This file primarily concerns relations between the Government of the Hejaz (later Saudi Arabia) and the Government of Egypt. Most of the correspondence is between the High Commissioner at Egypt (George Ambrose Lloyd, Sir Percy Loraine, and Miles Wedderburn Lampson successively) and various Forei...
The Infraction of the Treaty of 1857 with Persia by the Local Officials of Bushire
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 7 of 1868, dated 20 July 1868, including an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-6, dated 26 June-20 July 1868. The enclosures relate to complaints received and made by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pel...
The Apparent Intention of Syud Salim to Make an Attack on Muscat by Land
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 66 of 1869, dated 8 March 1869, with one enclosure numbered 2, dated 19 February 1869. The enclosure consists of a letter from Secretary to the Government of Bombay to the Secretary to the Governme...
