IOR/L/PS/10/408

The volume contains correspondence relating to the grant of mineral concessions by the Persian Government to the Persian merchant Haji Agha Mohammed Moin-ut-Tojar Dehdashty (referred to as Muin-ut-Tujjar), and the award of export sales contracts for the mined Hormuz oxide to the two rival British companies Frank C Strick Company Limited of London and Messrs Ellinger and Company of Manchester. The main correspondents are British officials in the Foreign Office and India Office in London, the British Minister at Tehran, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire and the Viceroy of India. Their correspondence includes English translations of Muin-ut-Tujjar’s concessions of 1904 and 1913 to mine red oxide, salt and sulphur in the Persian Gulf islands of Hormuz, Kishm, Larak, Henjam and the ports of Bostaneh and Bander Khamir. There are also letters and telegrams between Frank C Strick Company Limited and their agent in Teheran, together with a copy in English of their export sales contract with the Persian Government for Hormuz red oxide. There is a small amount of correspondence in French, mainly between Belgian civil servants employed in Persian Customs administration in Teheran and the port of Bunder Abbas.

The file includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.