Abstract: The file contains correspondence regarding Radio broadcasting in India and Iran. Included are two telegrams (folios 2 to 3) from Edward Walter Fletcher, Secretary. One is addressed from the Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department, to HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Iran, Tehran and proposes the building of relations between ‘All India Radio’ and publicity organisations in Iran, in particular a new radio station in Tehran. The reason of which is to limit the influence of German broadcasts from Iran, and to demonstrate the promotion of the Iranian regime in India to Iran. The second telegram is addressed to HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Afghanistan, Kabul and proposes cooperation with publicity organisations in Afghanistan for similar reasons. This telegram also refers to an earlier correspondence dated at 1 May 1940 which is not in the file.The main body of the file contains correspondence and a report (folios 4 to 10) from Reader William Bullard (British Ambassador at Tehran) to the Viscount Halifax at the Foreign Office detailing work undertaken by the new broadcasting station ‘Radio Tehran’. Copies of which have been forwarded to the Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department, the Ministry of Information, and to HM’s Representatives at Baghdad and Kabul; these copies are not included in the file. The report includes information regarding the hours of broadcast, individual broadcasters (including the Minister of Posts, Telephones and Telegraphs), the mechanics of frequency and transmission, current and future scheduling, and opinion on the and style and content of programming (including a negative assessment of the available news service).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description 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: The file comprises a printed copy of the report 'British Summer Legation at Gulhek. Provisional Edition, 1939' written by Lacy Baggallay. The report discusses the history, property, water supply, buildings, plans and reports relating to the British summer legation at Gulhek, seven miles north of Tehran.The contents include a list of schedules:Plan of the British Legation Property at GulhekReports on the British Legation Property at GulhekAcquisition of property, 1862-1928: land; trees; waterList of buildings comprising the legationEnclosed with the report in the volume is a covering letter, dated 6 December 1940, from the Foreign Office to the Under-Secretary of State, India Office, requesting that the report be brought to the attention of the Secretary of State for India.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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 62; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 30 June 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 12 August 1873, forwarding a copy of a despatch from HM Chargé d’Affaires at Teheran [Tehran] to Earl Granville, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, reporting the existence of an unfriendly feeling on the part of the populace of Teheran towards Europeans and the steps taken to prevent any evil consequences therefrom.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 395, and terminates at f 400a, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains six foliation anomalies: f 395a, f 396a, f 397a, f 398a, f 399a, and f 400a.
Abstract: This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter 1 June 1821. The enclosures are dated 2 April-21 May 1821.The item comprises an extract of the proceedings of the Bombay Government and correspondence, with relevant enclosures, between: Captain William Bruce, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire [Bushehr]; Lieutenant-Colonel Brackley Kennett, Officer Commanding and Acting Political Agent, Bassadore, Kishm [Basaidu, Qeshm]; the Government of Bombay; and Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Tahran [Tehran].The subjects covered are:The Government of Bombay’s policy regarding the ‘difficult’ diplomatic situation at Kishm, including: a proposal to send 400 European soldiers to reinforce Lieutenant-Colonel Kennett’s detachment on the island; authority for Kennett to fortify his position at Bassadore or wherever he considers best; arrangements for the naval force in the Gulf to be enhanced with additional cruisers and put on standby in the event of an attack by Persia [Iran]; permission for the detachment’s evacuation to Muscat as a last resort; extensive efforts to obtain intelligence from the mainland regarding Persia’s plans; notification of all relevant parties of the Bombay Government’s position; and instructions to Willock to ensure these measures do not cause any alarm in TehranPreparations by Captain Bruce in case of a Persian attack, including his communications with KennettPreparations by Kennett in case of an attack on his ‘small and exposed force’ by Persia, particularly in light of rumours of a force assembled at Bunder Abbas [Bandar Abbas] and the likelihood that the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat will, if severely pressured by Persia, back down from opposing the Shah of PersiaWillock’s intention to leave Tahran due to threats on his life (decapitation) following his refusal to make further advances of an annual subsidy to the Shah, including copies of his correspondence with the Persian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mirza (also spelled Meerza in this item) Abdul Wahab [Mīrzā 'Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī], 26-31 March 1822 (ff 87-95), and ‘Notes of messages and information collected regarding the occurrences at Tehran form 28th March’ providing intricate details of the affair (ff 96-101).Physical description: The despatch comprises enclosures numbered 1-2. The enclosure number is written for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 14 of 1853, dated 28 February 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 10 December 1852.The enclosure consists of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Tehran, Justin Sheil, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, enclosing under a flying seal (for the information of the Governor in Council) copies of nine of his despatches addressed to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Malmesbury. These despatches relate to affairs in Persia [Iran] and Herat, and are dated 11 November to 8 December 1852.The despatches report matters including:Sheil’s stated intention to remark to the Sedr Azim [Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam] that a specific declaration is required to counteract articles which had appeared in the
Tehran Gazette‘boasting’ of the annexation of Herat to the dominions of the Shah (an enclosed copy of a translated paragraph from the
Tehran Gazetteof 11 November 1852 is included)Sheil enclosing a translation of a firman nominating Abbas Koolee Khan ['Abbās Quli Khān] to a permanent residence in Herat, to fulfil a function, Sheil states, of Vizier or Political Secretary but not a diplomatic agentA party of Toorkomans [Turkoman or Turkmen people] capturing 'about 30 Persians' in Mazandaran, and the apparent displeasure of Persian Ministers at the Prince Governor of the province requesting Russian help to pursue and punish the Toorkomans, thereby providing an opportunity for the Russians to extend their influence in MazandaranThree letters (translated copies enclosed) ‘of a rather distant date’ which Sheil had received from Fatteh Mahomed Khan [Fath' Muḥammad Khān], an Afghan ‘Chief’ and ‘one of the chief notables of Herat’, who had been seized as an ‘English’ partisan and sent into captivity in Beerjend [Bīrjand] when Persian supremacy had lately been established in HeratNews received by Sheil that Sam Khan [Sām Khān], the former Persian Agent in Herat, had marched into Herat with a body of troops; the Sedr Azim responding to Sheil’s request for an explanation by stating that Sam Khan had acted without orders from the Persian Government, that his actions were entirely in opposition to their wishes, and that a messenger had been sent to recall Sam Khan immediately (in an enclosed exchange of notes between Sheil and the Sedr Azim); and the Sedr Azim’s verbal assertion that the troops accompanying Sam Khan were only of his tribe, and that this occurrence could be attributed to the intrigues of the Governor of Khorasan, in order to prevent his recall as GovernorSheil highlighting the announcement by the Sedr Azim of the intention to send troops to oppose Dost Mahomed Khan [Dūst Muḥammad Khān Bārakzāʾi] of Cabul [Kabul] and Kohendil Khan [Kuhandil Khān Muḥammadzā'ī] of Candahar [Kandahar], suspected of planning a new expedition in Herat territoryA dispute between the Persian and Ottoman Governments regarding the displaying of their respective flags at their embassies in Tehran and Constantinople [Istanbul] (enclosed copies of two despatches from Sheil to Colonel Hugh Rose, HM Chargé d’Affaires at Constantinople, are included)An agreement having been reached with the Persian Government regarding issues in relation to the nomination of ‘English’ consuls in Asterabad [Gorgan] and Resht [Rasht] (with enclosed translated correspondence between Sheil and the Sedr Azim)Sheil enclosing a portion of a letter from the British Agent in Meshed [Mashhad], containing intelligence from HeratThe arrival in Tehran of Mahomed Sedeek Khan [Sayyid Muḥammad Siddiq Khān Alakuzā'ī], brother of the ‘Chief’ of Herat, with five other ‘Chiefs’ of Herat, and two of them, Khan Dilaver Khan [Khān Dilāvar Khān] and Ser Afraz Khan [Sarafrāz Khān], placing themselves in sanctuary at the British mission, causing the Shah and the Sedr Azim ‘great umbrage’, and with the latter sending Sheil a letter protesting against their protection.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-3, on folio 302. The number 3 is repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of the enclosure.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 92 of 1843 dated 26 December 1843. The enclosures are dated 14 September-26 December 1843.The papers relate to Persian [Iranian] affairs, notably:The maintenance of peace on the frontier with the Ottoman Empire including keeping the border tribes ‘in order’British-Russian relations in PersiaThe establishment of a Russian military base in the bay of Asterabad [Gorgan].Correspondents include: HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and the Secretary to the Government of India.Physical description: 1 item (84 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, translations of letters, intelligence reports relating to events in Tehran.The principal correspondent is Mr Taylour Thomson, HM Consul, Tehran.Physical description: 1 item (56 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 73 of 1843, dated 31 October 1843. The enclosure is dated 13 August 1843, and consists of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran (Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil), relating to affairs in Tehran, including the return of the Shah of Persia [Iran] to Tehran.Enclosed within the letter are further letters from Sheil, which are mainly addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Earl of Abderdeen, i.e. George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen).Physical description: 1 item (32 folios)
min taʼlīfāt al-ʻālim al-fāḍil al-kāmil nukhbat al-ʻulamāʼ wa-al-mujtahidīn al-Mīrzā Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Tunukābunī.Date taken from colophon on p. 350.
az talʼīfāt-i Iʻtimād al-Salṭanah Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān.Lithographed.Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http:purl.oclc.orgDLFbenchrepro0212 MHIn Persian.
az talʼīfāt-i Iʻtimād al-Salṭanah Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān.Lithographed.Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http:purl.oclc.orgDLFbenchrepro0212 MHIn Persian.