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IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 39-57
- Record Id:
- 041-004065918
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000538832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100139382661.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100149251877.0x000003
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 39-57
- Title:
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Persia Affairs
- Scope & Content:
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay, Secret Department, to the Secret Committee, Number 4 of 1850, dated 10 January 1850.
The enclosed papers, dated 17 October to 17 November 1849, concern affairs in Persia [Iran]. They consist of correspondence between: William Taylour Thomson, British Chargé d'Affaires, Tehran; Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Farrant, Acting British Chargé d'Affaires (en route to Tehran); Viscount Palmerston [Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston], British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and Lieutenant-Colonel William Fenwick Williams, British Commissioner for the Turco [Ottoman Iraq]-Persian Frontier Commission.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- The unsettled state of affairs in Persia, including rebellion in Khorasan, the murder of the Deputy Governor in Ispahan [Isfahan], and the difficulty of administering the provinces
- Relations between the Persian Government and the Muslim clergy, in particular between the Prime Minister and the 'chief priest' [Emām-e Jom‘a] in Tehran
- Progress of a commission to settle the Turco-Persian frontier.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000538832
037-000539208
040-000539309
041-004065918 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/5 : Secret Correspondence with India
IOR/L/PS/5/363-509 : Enclosures to Secret Letters from Bombay
IOR/L/PS/5/463 : 'ENCLOSURES TO SECRET LETTERS FROM BOMBAY', Vol 101
IOR/L/PS/5/463, ff 39-57 : Persia Affairs - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0005]/036-000538832[0013]/037-000539208[0101]/040-000539309[0005]/041-004065918
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (19 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100149251877.0x000003
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1850
- End Date:
- 1850
- Date Range:
- 10 Jan 1850
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Former External References:
- No. 4 of 1850
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)