Abstract: A map of the Arabian Peninsula, showing principal regions and settlements, and indicating with red and blue outlines the extents of Wahabi and of Muscat power respectively. The map is a printed copy of an enclosure from Bushire Despatch to Bombay No. 11 of 14th February 1865, which was created by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.Physical description: Materials: Printed on paperDimensions: 334 x 430mm
Abstract: Correspondence and notes relating to the law of succession in Persia [Iran], and possible events in Persia, in the event of the death of the Shah, Reza Shah Pahlavi. The file includes:Correspondence from the British Embassy in Paris, dated 1 March 1930, informing Government of the death in France of the ex-Shah of Persia, Ahmed Kadjar [Ahmad Qajar], along with cuttings from the French newspapers
Le Tempsand
Le Matin, reporting on ex-Shah’s death (ff 42-45).A report, written by Lieutenant-Colonel Percy C R Dodd, Military Attaché at the British Legation, Tehran, dated 3 December 1930, on the present relations between the Shah and his army, and its bearing on the stability of the Pahlavi regime (ff 35-38).A report entitled
The Future of Persia, written by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle, dated October 1931 (ff 14-30).The text of an interview between an American journalist called Mr James, and the Persian Prime Minister Abdolhossein Teymourtache [Teymourtash], undated. Notes from a demi-official letter enclosing the text, from Captain John Ignatius Ennis, Intelligence Officer at the Baluchistan Intelligence Bureau in Quetta, dated 12 August 1931, also give details of James’ impressions of his visit to Russia (ff 3-12).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 54; 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 volume largely consists of copies of Foreign Office correspondence, which have been forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India. The correspondence, most of which is between Foreign Office officials and either the British Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard) or His Majesty's Chargé d’Affaires at Jedda (Cecil Gervase Hope Gill, succeeded by Albert Spencer Calvert), relates to financial and political matters in the Kingdom of the Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia).The correspondence discusses the following:The history of the Wahabi movement and Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd's] attitude towards Wahabism.The currency exchange crisis in the Hejaz.Requests from Ibn Saud for the British Government either to assist in establishing a British bank as a state bank in the Hejaz, or to provide a loan directly to the Hejazi Government (both requests are declined).The British Minister at Jedda's accounts of his meetings both with Ibn Saud and with various Hejazi/Saudi Government officials.A Hejazi-Soviet contract for the supply of Soviet benzine and relations between Soviet Russia and Hejaz-Nejd generally.Tensions within the Hejazi Government.The Hejazi Government's budgetary reforms.The prospect of a new Saudi state bank, possibly backed by the financial assistance of the former ex-Khedive of Egypt [ʿAbbās Ḥilmī II].The death of Emir Abdullah ibn Jiluwi [‘Abdullāh bin Jilūwī Āl Sa‘ūd].Saudi-Egyptian relations.The discovery of oil in Hasa.In addition to correspondence the volume includes the following:A copy of an economic survey of Saudi Arabia, produced by the British Legation at Jedda in June 1936.A copy of a note written by Frederick Gerard Peake, Commanding Officer of the Arab Legion, on the history of the Wahabi movement.A copy of a printed Government of India report entitled 'Confidential Report of the Haj Inquiry Committee on the Arrangements in the Hedjaz', dated 1930.A copy of a report by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe), recounting a visit to Ibn Saud at Hasa in early 1932.Copies of extracts from Kuwait intelligence summaries and Bahrain intelligence reports.The volume includes three dividers, which give a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 651; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 563-649 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: Tables displaying imports to and exports from Bushire [Būshehr] in the year 1823 in new Persian rupees, drawn from Customs House records of ships belonging to the Shaikh of Bushire and other local vessels.The tables were sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], as part of a report on trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/191).The report was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: Tables displaying imports to and exports from Bushire [Būshehr] on British-flagged ships in the year 1819 in old and new Persian rupees, drawn from ships’ manifests.The tables were sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], as part of a report on trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/191).The report was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: Tables displaying imports to and exports from Bushire [Būshehr] on British-flagged ships in the year 1821 in new Persian rupees, drawn from ships' manifests.The tables were sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], as part of a report on trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/191).The report was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: Tables displaying imports to and exports from Bushire [Būshehr] on British-flagged ships in the year 1822 in new Persian rupees, drawn from ships' manifests.The tables were sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], as part of a report on trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/191).The report was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], sent from the Bushire [Būshehr] Residency and dated 3 June 1824.The letter concerns trade in the Gulf, in particular to the port of Bushire, forwarding trade data from the years 1817-23 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/192-206). Subjects covered in the letter include Bushire’s trade with India, the potential trade in Persian opium with China, the trade in pearls, and conjecture on the trade of other Persian ports.The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: Tables displaying the value of exports from and imports to Bushire [Būshehr] on British-flagged ships in the year 1817 in old and new Persian rupees, drawn from ships’ manifests.The tables were sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d'Affaires in Persia [Iran], as part of a report on trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/191).The report was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: Tables displaying imports to and exports from Bushire [Būshehr] on British-flagged ships in the year 1818 in old and new Persian rupees, drawn from ships' manifests.The tables were sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], as part of a report on trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/191).The report was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: Tables displaying imports to and exports from Bushire [Būshehr] on British-flagged ships in the year 1820 in new Persian rupees, drawn from ships’ manifests.The tables were sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], as part of a report on trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/191).The report was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: Tables displaying imports to and exports from Bushire [Būshehr] on British-flagged ships in the year 1823 in new Persian rupees, drawn from ships' manifests.The tables were sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], as part of a report on trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/191).The report was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.