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IOR/L/PS/10/624
- Record Id:
- 040-000545687
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000207
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100044970133.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/624
- Title:
- File 3784/1916 ‘War: Persia German Consular Archives’
- Scope & Content:
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The volume mostly consists of translated copies of selected records from the German Consulate at Bushire, Persia [Iran]. These records largely consist of correspondence of the German Consulate at Bushire with the German Imperial Chancellor in Berlin and the German Legation at Tehran, dated 1899 to 1914. The records are divided into six sets of papers: set I, relating to Koweit [Kuwait]; set II, relating to Masqat [Muscat]; set III, labelled ‘Miscellaneous papers of importance (re status of German consulate Bushire etc.etc.)’; set IV, ‘Political Papers 1913’; set V ‘Political Archives 1913 (Continued)’; and set VI, ‘Political 1913 (Continuation & Conclusion)’.
The file also includes: India Office Secret Department Minute Paper covering sheets for the correspondence; and some correspondence of 1917 between Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary of the India Office Political Department, and the Imperial Bank of Persia, in relation to a passage in a despatch from the German Consul at Bushire regarding the Bank reportedly being willing to do business with the German company Wonckhaus (also spelled as Wonkhaus in the correspondence).
The file includes a divider which gives the subject 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.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000545687 - 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/10/624 : File 3784/1916 ‘War: Persia German Consular Archives’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0626]/040-000545687
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume (281 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000207
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1916
- End Date:
- 1916
- Date Range:
- 18 Aug 1916-2 Jun 1916
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 281; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves, have not been foliated.
- Arrangement:
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The subject 3784 (Persia German Consular Archives) consists of one volume.
The papers are arranged in reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file, but the translated copies of German Consulate records are arranged in into six sets of papers: set I, folios 252 to 281; set II, folios 232 to 251; set III, folios 214 to 230; set IV, folios 118 to 158; set V, folios 159 to 213; and set VI, folios 13 to 113; these papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear within each set of papers.
- Administrative Context:
- The translated copies of selected records from the German Consulate at Bushire were sent by Arthur Prescott Trevor, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, in two batches on 11 July and 1 October 1916, to the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, and the latter forwarded them to Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary of the India Office Political Department. Trevor states that the records were taken from the German Consulate to the British Political Residency at Bushire when the German Consul was arrested on the night of 8-9 March 1915 (folio 116).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)