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This part consists of a printed summary of British policy regarding Persia, from 1834 to 1904, featuring extracts from Foreign Office correspondence. Also included are extracts from speeches given in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs respectively, as published in The Times.

The summary is divided into sections. The contents page includes an introductory statement and a table of contents, which lists the sections as follows:

(1) The integrity of Persia

(2) Railways, tramways, roads, telegraphs in Southern Persia

(3) The customs of Southern Persia

(4) Seistan

(5) British interests in the Persian Gulf

(6) The Sheikh of Mohammerah

(7) The new Persian tariff

(8) The acquisition by Russia of a Naval Station on the Persian Gulf

There is a handwritten note on the front of the document which states ‘This is not final copy’.

Notable correspondents include the following: the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; the British Minister at Tehran (Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, succeeded by Arthur Henry Hardinge); HM Chargé d'Affaires to Tehran (Robert Charles Kennedy; Cecil Arthur Spring Rice); HM Ambassador to Russia, St Petersburg (Sir Charles Stewart Scott); the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (Count Karl Robert Nesselrode); the Shah of Persia, Nassir-ud-Din (Nasser Al-Din Shah Qajar); the Mushir-ed-Dowleh of Persia (Prime Minister to the Shah); the Russian Ambassador to London (Count Alexander Konstantinovich Benckendorff).