Abstract: Enclosure nos. 2-18 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 17 January 1852. The enclosures are dated 16 June 1851-17 January 1852.The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to four separate subjects.Folios 85-97 cover a complaint from the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran] that tents supplied to the British Mission at Tehran by the Government of Bombay in 1849 have proven to be of inferior quality to previous batches, and an enquiry into the tendering process and specifications of the tents.Folios 98-99 consist of an extract from a resolution by the East India Company Secret Committee relating to the establishment of steam navigation on the Indus and Punjab rivers for the purposes of communication.Folios 100-103 cover attempts to reduce the volume of communications between departments of the Government of India.Folios 104-113 cover the trade in enslaved persons within the dominions of the Imam of Muscat and Oman (including Zanzibar), and efforts against it by both the Imam and the British.The primary correspondents are: the Envoy in Tehran; the Government of Bombay; the Government of India; the Secret Committee; and the British Consul, Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (33 folios)
Abstract: This file consists of one letter and a note from the Middle East Supply Centre in Cairo. The letter is a study of local resources in Persia regarding supplies and transport of coal and coal lumps and is composed of several parts covering the following topics:The supplies of coal lumps that civilians needThe prices of coal and coal lumps in the Persian GulfTests on the quality of the shipsDifficulties in transporting the material from Tehran to the GulfCoal requirements for the GulfResults of the transportsPetroleum cokeA trial shipment for Egypt.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 4; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises papers relating to requests made by the Ministry of Shipping to find a suitable agricultural adviser to represent the Middle East Supply in Centre in Persia. The principal correspondents in the file are the Ministry of Shipping and the Ministry of War Transport. The ministries wish to appoint a man named Mustapha as an agricultural expert for Tehran.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 12; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file consists primarily of letters, telegrams and reports regarding the Anglo Persian Charitable Relief Committee to Iran.The file contains two reports entitled 'Anglo-Iranian relief fund.' These reports list the cities that received aid from the fund and the amounts. The file contains another pair of reports entitled 'Publicity Given to the Working of the Anglo-Iranian Relief Fund during January to March 31st 1943.' These reports describe the actions the fund have took to alleviate poverty in Iran as reported on by the
Daily News, the Tehran English newspaper. Finally, the file contains letters from the Foreign Office regarding whether or not to contribute £10,000 to the Anglo-Iranian Charitable Relief Commitee.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 34; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains reports, predominantly in the form of telegrams, by British diplomatic and consular staff on political and social developments in Persia; the content of the reports reflect British Government interests during the Iran-Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946. The reports cover developments within the Central Government, developments in the provinces, and the activities of the Democratic Party and the Tudeh Party. This includes accounts of meetings held by the British and United States Ambassadors – John Le Rougetel and George V Allen – with Ahmad Qavam (Prime Minister and Leader of the Democratic Party) and the Shah – Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. The file also covers strikes and labour disputes, with those affecting the operations of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company being particularly predominant.The strikes of oil workers in Agha Jari and Abadan in July 1946 are covered in the reports, as is a threatened revolt by the Bakhtiari and Kashgai tribes. Reports from the British Ambassador to the Soviet Union (Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson) cover Soviet press reporting of developments in Persia. A small amount of content is in French.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 597; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding invitations from Iran, Ministry of Health to send representation to the 25th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Persian Pasteur Institute in Tehran. The majority of the file contains correspondence regarding the decision to send a Doctor Pirdie and Colonel Findlay as representatives of the UK, and includes discussions of travel arrangements and dress code. The main correspondents are as follows Sir John Helier Le Rougetel (HM Ambassador to Iran); the British Embassy, Cairo and the Government of India, External Affairs Department. The file also includes a telegram addressed to the Foreign Office from Le Routegel relaying information received from the French Embassy and the physician of the British Embassy in Iran, Tehran. The telegram suggests that plans to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Persian Pasteur Institute have been organised in order to jeopardise an inspection planned by the French Pasteur Institute and to prevent their plans to replace the current Persian head. The United States of America’s planned representation is discussed and concern over potential Russian involvement in the event of the United Kingdom’s failure to send a representative is also expressed.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 7; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: A letter, numbered 10, from HM Ambassador to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Lord Richard Wellesley, in London. The letter reports and describes his arrival in Tehran and reception at the court of the Persian Shah. Details such as the istakbal (initial welcome outside the city), gift giving, and gun salutes are discussed. Reference to previous envoys, including those of General Gardanne [Claude-Mathieu de Gardane] in 1807, Sir Harford Jones in 1809, and General John Malcolm in 1811, are made and comparisons drawn.The letter was received from the Foreign Secretary's office on 9 May 1812.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: The file contains a telegram from the Ministry of Economic Warfare addressed to Sir Reader Bullard, the British Ambassador of Tehran, including related correspondence regarding the use an incorrect telegram code. The telegram refers to a proposed future purchase of wool in Iran.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 7; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains papers relating to communications between London and the Middle East. It mainly consists of copies of correspondence sent to the India Office from the Foreign Office. This largely consists of copies of correspondence between the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and the British Consulate, Aleppo, regarding the railway service, and improved mail service, between London and Aleppo and other places by the Simplon Orient Express and the Taurus Express.It also includes:copies of correspondence between HM Representative, Tehran, and the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, concerning the establishment of a through service to Europe via Nisibin and Istanbul, by the International Sleeping Car Company, Cairoa copy of a letter from the General Post Office to the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding the mail service to Syria, Iraq and Persia [Iran] by Simplon Orient Express and Taurus Expressand a copy of a letter from HM Acting Consul-General, Beirut, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, regarding the delay in the mail service from England to SyriaThe correspondence includes enclosures in French (folios 12-14 and 32-37).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 38; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains three Foreign Office documents relating to the official censuses of population conducted in Persia [Iran] in 1933 and 1940. The first document is a memorandum written in 1934 by John Percival Summerscale, the Counsellor (Commercial) at the British Legation, Tehran. He comments on the figures and tables published by the Tehran Municipality in respect of the Tehran population census of 1933. This is followed by two dispatches written in April 1940 and January 1942 by Reader William Bullard, the British Minister at Tehran. He describes the conduct of the population census of Tehran taken on 1 March 1940, reporting on some of the published census results, as well as press commentary in Persian newspapers.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.