Abstract: A translation of a firman [edict] from the King [Shah] of Persia [Iran] [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] to Abbas Mirza [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince of Persia] presented by Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires, and dated Rujjub [Rajab] 1237/March-April 1822.The firman concerns arrears in subsidy payments to Persia and frontier disputes with Turkey [Ottoman Empire]. Abbas Mirza is ordered to allow Willock to return to Britain to discuss the issue of subsidies, and to await the arrival of Willock’s brother George to mediate between Persia and Turkey on the frontier issue.The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 4 May 1822 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/88).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A translation of a rukum [letter] from Abbas Mirza [‘Abbās Mīrzā], Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia, dated 7 Shahban [Sha’bān] 1237/29 April 1822.In response to a firman [edict] from the Shah (IOR/L/PS/9/69/90) the letter protests Willock’s planned departure from Tabreez [Tabrīz] to Britain to discuss arrears in subsidy payments to Persia, instead asking him to remain in order to negotiate frontier issues with Turkey [Ottoman Empire].The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 4 May 1822 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/88).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to George Canning, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sent from Tabriz and dated 26 December 1823.The letter concerns treaty negotiations between Persia and the Ottoman Empire (Treaty of Erzurum) following the 1821-1823 war between the two countries. Subjects covered include: an attempt by the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] of Persia to renegotiate the Ottoman-Persian border; the dispatch of a Persian envoy to the Ottoman Sultan; and a proposed alliance against Russia.The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 8 January 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/140).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This file contains papers on the petition of the ETSN Co [Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited] for compensation, following the seizure of their stock of coal and the steamships
Khalifahand
Ishtarby Ottoman authorities in August and November 1914, and their subsequent capture and redeployment by British forces in 1917 and 1918.The papers include material relating to:The petition of the ETSN at the High Court of JusticeThe instructions of the British Embassy at Constantinople [Istanbul] to the Consulate General at Basrah [Basra, also written as Busreh in the correspondence]The possible recapture of a vessel by a landing force and the application of the Naval Prize Act 1864The judgement of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the sinking of the Turkish vessel
Gul DjemalThe results of the Treasury Solicitor’s investigation into the ownership of the SS
KhalifahThe status of four barges owned by Société de Transports Fluviaux en Orient and Deutsche BankThe memorandum of an interdepartmental meeting with reference to river craft recaptured in Mesopotamia [Iraq]The Ottoman deployment of the
Khalifahfor the transportation of troops rather than as a warshipA note by the India Office on ‘Mesopotamia: Questions in regard to Recaptured River Craft’A proposal that the
Khalifahbe reconditioned and redelivered to the Lynch Brothers after a valuation, the amount of which could then be deducted from their claim against the British GovernmentA consultation between the Foreign Office and former Acting Consul at Basra, Reader William Bullard, and the latter’s suggestion to contact the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad for consulting the Basra Consulate recordsThe correspondence of ETSN with the Foreign Office from 19, 21 and 26 March 1919The supplementary correspondence of ETSN and their solicitors, Slaughter & May, regarding the
KhalifahA statement about the steamers, barges, tugs, and launches lost by ETSN during the WarThe permission granted to Mr Shashoua [Sha’shu’a] and others to operate steamers, hired from Persian merchants at Muhamerah [Khorramshahr], to transport merchandise between Basrah and BaghdadThe disposal of surplus river craft in Mesopotamia by the War DepartmentThe decision of the British Government not to permit a monopoly of navigational rights in MesopotamiaA proposal by local Mahometan [Muslim], Jewish and Christian merchants to run steamers on the Tigris.The main correspondents include: the Euphrates and Tigris Steam Navigation Company Limited, the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, and HM Treasury.Physical description: The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 197; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: There are also multiple intermittent pagination sequences.