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IOR/L/PS/10/78
- Record Id:
- 040-000544814
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000365.0x0003a3
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100027070704.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/78
- Title:
-
File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’
- Scope & Content:
- The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials, about their negotiations in the lead up to the Parcel Post Agreement of 1910 with Persia. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and the British Chargé d'Affaires at Tehran. They discuss cooperative arrangements for the examination by Persian Customs officials of postal parcels arriving from India and elsewhere, at British Indian Post Offices in Bushire and other towns along the Persian Coast of the Gulf. Included in the volume are copies of the following documents written in French: the Parcel Post Agreement between Great Britain and Persia of 1910 and Annex of 1911, the Parcel Post Agreement between Austro-Hungary and Turkey of 1870, and several letters by senior Persian Customs officials at Bushire and Tehran.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000544814 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/78 : File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0078]/040-000544814
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (212 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000365.0x0003a3
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
French - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1902
- End Date:
- 1911
- Date Range:
- 8 Dec 1902-23 Feb 1911
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the leading flyleaf with 1 and terminates at the ending flyleaf with 212; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.
- Former External References:
- P 1311/1905
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 1311 (Persian Gulf: post offices: Parcel Post Convention) consists of one volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)