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1. 'Translation of a letter from Sir Harford Jones Baronet, to His Royal Highness Abbas Meerza Prince Royal of Persia dated the 12 May 1810'
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- Abstract: Translation of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to the Prince Royal of Persia [Crown Prince of Persia], Abbas Meerza ['Abbās Mīrza Qājār̄], dated 12 May 1810. The letter relates to the arrangements for the Turkish [Ottoman] frontier in the armistice negotiations between Russia and Persia and advises against allowing Russia to occupy towns on the Turkish frontier. The letter also reports on diplomatic relations between the European powers and discounts alleged inaccuracies printed in French gazettes.The letter was enclosed in Sir Harford Jones's letter of 2 June 1810, and was received on 4 October 1810.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
2. 'Translation of a letter from His Excellency Meerza Bozurg to Sir Harford Jones Baronet, received the 14th May 1810'
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- Abstract: Translation of a letter from Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā Buzurg], the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], to HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Sir Harford Jones, received on 14 May 1810. The letter concerns the breaking off of armistice negotiations between Russia and Persia over the issue of the Turkish [Ottoman] frontier, and reports of peace negotiations between Turkey and Russia mediated by Napoleon Bonaparte. The letter also urges Jones to continue his work in Persia in the interest of maintaining relations between England [Britain] and Persia.The letter was enclosed in Jones's letter of 2 June 1810, and was on received 4 October 1810.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
3. 'Translation of a dispatch from the Royal Highness the Prince Royal to his Minister Meerza Mohammed Hassan, received on the 14 May 1810, and delivered by Meerza Mohammed Hassan, on the same evening to Sir Harford Jones Baronet'
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- Abstract: Translation of a dispatch from the Prince Royal [Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran] Abbas Mirza to his minister Meerza [Mīrzā] Mohammed Hassan, received on 14 May 1810. The letter relates to ongoing armistice negotiations between Persia and Russia, recommending breaking off negotiations and renewing the war on the basis of Persia being unable to achieve the key objectives of securing the Ottoman frontier and Talish [Talysh] from Russian interference or incursion.The letter was enclosed in HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones's letter of 2 June 1810, and was received on 4 October 1810.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
4. 'ABSTRACT OF LETTERS FROM INDIA 1873'
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- Abstract: Confidential printed abstracts of letters received by the India Office from the Government of India, and from senior officials in certain areas outside India, during the year 1873. The letters are dated December 1872-December 1873. The abstracts each have one of the following titles:Abstracts of Letters received from IndiaAbstracts of Letters received from Sir B FrereAbstracts of Letters received from AdenAbstracts of Military Letters received from IndiaAbstracts of Secret Letters received from IndiaAbstracts of Letters received from Zanzibar, Bushire [Bushehr] and AdenAbstracts of Letters received from Bushire and AdenAbstracts of Letters received from Bushire.Each abstract contains summaries of one or more letters from the specified source, each with a title giving the subject of the letter. Letters from India are divided within each abstract by the branch or department of the Government of India they originated from. The correspondence covers issues including:Arrangements for preserving the historical records of the Government of IndiaJudicial affairs, including the detention of Kooka [Namdhari/Kuka Sikh] insurgents as political prisoners and the question of jurisdiction over British subjects in Persia [Iran] and the Persian GulfLand issues, including plantations of tea, cinchona, and opium poppy, exploration for coal deposits, and land revenue settlementsRevenue, expenditure, and taxationPay, pensions, recruitment, and other personnel issues in the Indian Civil and Military establishmentsPublic works, including railways, canals and irrigationEducationTelegraphy, including international telegraphic links with IndiaAffairs concerning Princely States, including issues of succession, internal administration, the education of heirs, debts, and railwaysAnticipated famine in BengalIssues concerning emigration from India to British, French, and Dutch colonies, including the proposed emigration of Indian labourers to FijiMilitary affairs, including the organisation and supply of military unitsMilitary operations, including an expedition in the Garo Hills and counter-insurgency operations against the Moplahs [Mappilas] in MalabarAffairs in Persia, including: requests from the Persian Government for seconded Prussian and French army officers; frontier disputes between Persia and Turkey; the arbitration of the Mekran [Makran] and Seistan [Sistan] borders; a proposed railway from the Caspian Sea to Teheran [Tehran]Affairs in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula, including: conflict in Nejd [Emirate of Najd] between Saood [Sa’ūd bin Fayṣal Al Sa’ūd] and Abdullah [‘Abdullāh bin Fayṣal Al Sa’ūd]; the Turkish [Ottoman] occupation of Lahsa [Al Hasa] and suspected Turkish designs on the Gulf coast; and the slave tradeAffairs in and around Aden Settlement, in particular Turkish activity in the regionAffairs in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, in particular the consolidation of and challenges to the rule of the Sultan Syud Toorkee [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa’īd Āl Bū Sa’īd]Affairs in Zanzibar, including the slave trade, the Zanzibar Subsidy to Muscat, and contact with the mission of Dr David Livingstone in Central AfricaAffairs in the Red Sea, including the illegal destruction of dhows by the British ship Thetisand suspected Egyptian designs on Berbera,Sir Bartle Frere’s mission to investigate the slave trade in East Africa, negotiations with the Sultans of Zanzibar and Muscat for treaties to suppress the slave trade, and recommendations for other anti-slavery measuresAffairs in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], including the administration of Reouf Pasha [Muḥammad Ra'ūf Pāshā], a steamer service operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company between Bussora [Basra] and Bagdad [Baghdad], and a prohibition on the export of Arab horsesAffairs in Central Asia, including: arbitration of the northern border of Affghanistan [Afghanistan]; discussions with Russia concerning spheres of influence in the region; affairs in Eastern Turkestan [Xinjiang] and the proposed expedition of Thomas Forsyth to Yarkund [Yarkant]; a Russian expedition against Khiva; the visit to India of envoys from Affghanistan and Bokhara [Bukhara]Affairs in Burmah [Burma/Myanmar]Affairs in Siam [Thailand], Nipal [Nepal], and Thibet [Tibet]The Panthay Rebellion in China.The primary correspondents are:The Government of IndiaThe Viceroy and Governor-General of IndiaThe Resident at AdenThe Political Resident in the Persian GulfThe Political Agent in MuscatThe Political Agent in ZanzibarSir Bartle Frere.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 332; 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.
5. Persian Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 57 of 1847, dated 16 June 1847. The enclosures are dated 14 April-14 May 1847 (although some internal copy documents date back to 26 February 1847). (Note: the abstract erroneously dates the second enclosure 14 April 1847).The primary documents are letters from Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Tehran, chiefly to the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, GCB, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the Government of India, including copies of relevant correspondence.Numerous major and minor political, diplomatic and commercial subjects are covered in this item illustrating: tensions between Persia [Iran] and Ottoman Turkey whilst treaty negotiations were taking place at Erzeroom [Erzurum, Anatolia] and the role of the British embassy at Tehran as a mediator; relations between Britain, Persia, Turkey, France and Russia; internal Persian politics; and Sheil’s representation of British interests and individuals in the Persian dominions. Matters notably covered are (in this order in the item):Controversy over the nationality of an Armenian named ‘Stepan’, employed by English merchants at Tabreez [Tabriz], previously nationalised as a Russian and unsuccessfully seeking Persian citizenship to avoid having to journey to Russia to renew his identity certificatesSheil’s impatience with the Persian Government’s delay in sending a new consul to Baghdad and using the British Consul, Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, as the representative of their interests therePersian indemnity claims against Turkey following events at Mohammera [Khorramshahr, formerly Mohammerah], Rewandooz [Rawanduz?] and Kerbella [Karbala]; tensions over Turkey relinquishing Mohammera but not some of the (Persian owned) lands around it; and British and Russian mediation to have claims of both sides dropped in treaty negotiationsBritish and French commercial competition in relation to Persia, notably armaments sales, and British concerns about the Persian envoy to France stopping at the French Embassy in Constantinople [Istanbul] on his way back to Paris and ‘meddling’ in treaty negotiationsReturn to Tehran of the Governor of Khorassan, for certain criticized actions in the province; his rivalry with Persian Prime Minister Hajee Meerza Aghassee [Haji Mirza Aqasi] (who wants him banished); and his unsuccessful soliciting of Sheil’s public supportUncertainty surrounding the Shah’s purported plans to march an expedition against the ‘refractory’ Toorkoman people [Turkomans] in the region of Asterabad [Gorgan, formerly Astarabad] and Sheil’s advisory against it due to the remoteness of the region, the Shah’s poor health and because it could appear provocative to the Turkish authorities (the expedition did not take place)The Persian Prime Minister’s objections to a Turkish vessel of war anchoring at mouth of the Haffar estuary/canal ‘offensively’ close to Mohammera on the pretext of deterring ‘piracy’ and Sheil’s appeal to the Government of India to press the Turks to remove it as it impeded treaty negotiations at ErzeroomPersian complaints against a Turkish requirement that Persian travellers and pilgrims purchase a highly priced Turkish passports to visit the shrines in their dominions, when Russian Muslims are exempt from this taxEmbarrassment caused to Sheil by the continued presence of Agha Khan Mehellatee [Hasan Ali Shah Mahallati] in Bombay under British protection and the Government of India’s delay in fulfilling the terms of an agreement with the Shah to settle the Agha Khan in Calcutta [Kolkata]; and news that the Agha Khan’s brother is warring against the Shah in Kerman using English gunsThe unsuccessful attempt of Sheil’s envoy to trace English captives in territory of the newly enthroned Khan of KhivaComplaints received by Sheil of monetary harassment of British merchants and seizing of their property in Sheeraz [Shiraz] by Persian authoritiesSheil’s refusal to provide official protection to German missionaries, converted from Judaism to the Church of England (and sent by the London Missionary Society), arriving in Isfahan to convert Jewish people to Christianity, as it is against Shah’s laws to proselytizeThe Persian Government’s complaint regarding rumours that the Turks are constructing a fort on the right bank of the Shatt-ool-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] opposite Mohammera and British response that if they are it is probably in retaliation for Persia building forts near the Turkish frontier in Azerbijan [Azerbaijan]Fate of the medal of the Order of the Lion and Sun belonging to the late Persian Consul at Baghdad, and an embarrassing dispute between his executors and the French Consul General, Baron de Weimar, which drew in the involvement of the British Consul and the Pasha [Governor] of BaghdadPersian complaint regarding import and additional duties payable by Persian merchants in the Ottoman dominions and claims that they violate the convention of Balte Liman [Treaty of Balta Limani 1838]Sheil’s attempts to persuade the Shah to issue an edict outlawing the ‘traffic of slaves’ [enslaved persons] within his dominions, similar to the edict issued by the Ottoman Porte; the Shah’s refusal on the grounds that it is against Islamic law to prevent the possible conversion of ‘heathens’ from Africa to Islam; Sheil’s correspondence with the Persian Prime Minister who intimates the real reasons the Shah will not cave in to pressure are his annoyance with the British delays in sending the Agha Khan to Calcutta, for imprisoning of the Persian Consul in Bombay, and the protracted negotiations with Turkey at Erzeroom.Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-4, on folio 71. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
6. Maps and Associated Documents Relating to the Post-war Realignment of Boundaries in the Former Ottoman Empire
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- Abstract: Maps and documents prepared for the re-alignment of boundaries in the former Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the First World War. As follows:f 1 'Sketch Map of Asia Minor, showing approximate course of Roads and Railways'. With boundary additions. Engraved by Emery Walker Ltd. [1915-17]f 2 Western Turkey, showing the Zone of the High Commissioner and areas ceded to Greece and Italy. [Early 1890s-1920?]ff 3-4 'Boundary of Demilitarized Zone about Constantinople [Istanbul]. (Meeting of Allied Naval & Military Advisors, London 16.2.20.)' Created by the Geographical Section, General Stafff 5 'Izmir (Smyrna)'. With boundaries and population statistics added in manuscript. 1916-20f 6 'Anatolia'. Created by the War Office August 1919 with boundaries and population statistics added to 20 February 1920f 7 'Anatolia'. Created by the War Office August 1919 with boundaries and proposed boundaries added to 30 March 1920f 8 'Map No. 1. Turkey in Europa. Zone of the Straits, Smyrna, the [Aegean] Islands'. Created by 'S[ervice].G[éographique de l'].A[rmée]. 28.7.20.'f 9 'A Map of Turkey in Asia'. Proposed division of Ottoman Empire after the First World War. [1918?]f 10 'Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916 in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, &c.' Created by Edward Stanford. [1918?]f 11 'Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916 in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, &c.' Created by Edward Stanford and the Foreign Office, October 1918ff 12-14 'Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916 in regard to Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, &c.' Created by Edward Stanford and the Foreign Office, January 1919ff 15-16 'Map to illustrate the Agreements of 1916.' Turkey in Asia. Created by Edward Stanford, October 1919ff 17-23 'Maps illustrating Memorandum respecting the Settlement of Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula.' [Published by the Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, 21 November 1918]ff 24-30 'Maps illustrating Memorandum respecting the Settlement of Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula.' [Published by the Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office, 21 November 1918]f 31 'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia [Iran]'. With international boundary annotations. 1917-20?f 32 'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia'. With repatriation annotations. 1917-20?ff 33-34 'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia'. With overprints showing ethnic information, boundaries and communications. 1917-20?ff 35-35a 'Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia (Ethnographical)' with attached key. 1917-19f 36 [Map of Eastern Turkey in Asia, Syria and Western Persia]. Fragment of south-east corner, with additional railway information. 1917-18f 37 'Arménie. Dressèe par le Capitaine de Corvette Z. Khanzadian' [1919]f 38 'Map to show territory which was Turkish prior to War 1914-'18 which it is proposed to include within Northern, Western and Southern Boundaries of Armenia.' Created by the Geographical Section, General Staff, 1920f 39 'Persia and Afghanistan'. With manuscript additions showing 'Persian Territorial Claims'. 1919-1919?ff 40-40a 'Caucasus Boundaries' with attached note. [1919]f 41 'Tabriz'. Created by the Royal Geographical Society and the War Office. With manuscript additions. 1916-20f 42 'The Middle East'. Published by 'Admiralty War Staff I[ntelligence].D[ivision].' With manuscript additions showing Arabic language areas. [1917]f 43 'The Middle East'. Published by 'Admiralty War Staff I[ntelligence].D[ivision].' With manuscript additions showing areas of British direct control and spheres of special political influence. [1917]f 44 'Syria. Jaffa – Damascus'. Published by the War Office. With manuscript additions showing boundary information. 1916-[1920?].Physical description: 42 map sheets and 8 folios
7. Political No. 2 of 1873, Forwarding Papers regarding the Difficulties which Exist on the Persian-Turko Frontier
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- 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 3 January 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 1 February 1873, forwarding copies of papers (some of which are in French) regarding the difficulties which exist on the Persian-Turko Frontier, in continuation of Political Despatch No. 136 of 1 July 1872, and with reference to the Secretary of State for India’s despatch No. 120 of 18 October 1872.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 6, and terminates at f 28a, 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 eight foliation anomalies: f 6a, 7a, 13a, 14a, 15a, 21a, 22a, and 28a.
8. Persian Gulf Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 55 of 1847, dated 16 June 1847. The enclosures are dated 26 April-8 June 1847 (although some internal copy documents date back to 1 February 1847).The primary documents are letters from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent in Turkish Arabia and British Consul in Baghdad, to Henry Wellesley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul, Ottoman Empire], including his correspondence with Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Tehran and Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire [Būshehr].The subjects covered notably include:Duties payable by Persian [Iranian] merchants to Turkish (Ottoman) authorities in relation to imports and their onward exportTribal ‘unrest’ on the Turco-Persian frontier and delays in the arrival of a (Persian) Kermanshah Commissioner to adjudicate on disputesRawlinson’s concerns about a potential increase in Turkish-Persian tensions resulting from an Ottoman Special Commission sent to Bussorah [Basra] to assess and allegedly increase the values and revenues of the ports of Bussorah and Mohamerah [Khorramshahr, formerly Mohammerah] and strengthen Turkish maritime power at the mouth of the Shat el-Arab [Shatt al-Arab] and in the Persian GulfThe possible return to Turkey of Kurdish refugees, notably the Meer of Rowanduz [Mir of Rawandiz]Tension between Turkey and Persia over how to deal with ‘piracy’ in the Persian Gulf, including prevention of Turkish interference with the commerce of Mohamerah; Hennell’s agreement with the Governor of Fars for dealing with ‘piracy’ and proposal that Nejib Pasha [Mehmed Necib Pasha also known as Muhammad Najib Pasha], Governor of Baghdad, could seize Persian or Arabian ‘pirate’ boats in Turkish waters and the Euphrates River and involve British vessels of war; Rawlinson’s annoyance with Hennell for offering the assistance of British vessels of war; Nejib Pasha’s refusal to agree to a suggestion he considered an infringement of international laws and which would need referral to the Porte (Government of the Ottoman Empire)Turkish passport regulations for the subjects of the European powers entering or travelling in the Ottoman dominions, including the implications for Indian pilgrims travelling to Mecca, Kerbela [Karbala] and Nejef [Najaf] (English translation, ff 27-32).Physical description: There is an abstract of contents of the despatch, numbered 1-4, on folio 2. These numbers are repeated for reference on the verso of the last folio of each enclosure.
9. Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 12 Feb 1824
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- Abstract: A translation of a rukum [raqm, chancery letter] from the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran], to the Agent of the Prince Royal at the Court of Tehran [Mīrzā Ismā’īl], dated 5 February 1824.The letter discusses:Negotiations with the Porte [Ottoman Empire], including a visit from a Turkish minister and reports from Bagdad [Baghdad]The proposed transfer of responsibility for diplomatic relations between Persia and Britain to the British Government in India, which is opposed by both the Prince and the Shah [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār]The issue of delayed subsidy payments from Britain to PersiaEvents in the Caucasus, including a fire in the bazaar at Shusha and Russian setbacks in Daghestan [Dagestan]Issues concerning Russian representatives in Persia, in particular the treatment of a Russian veterinary surgeon.The translation was enclosed in the letter of Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 12 February 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/159).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
10. Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 4 May 1822
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- Abstract: A translation of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to Abbas Mirza [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince of Persia], undated.In response to a rukum [chancery letter] from Abbas Mirza (IOR/L/PS/9/69/92), Willock affirms his planned departure from Tabreez [Tabrīz] to Britain, and states that his brother Major George Willock will take up his duties during his absence.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)
11. Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 4 May 1822
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- Abstract: A memorandum of a meeting between Abbas Meerza [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince of Persia] and Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran] in Tabreez [Tabrīz] on 26 April 1822, with an attached note dated 27 April.Issues covered in the meeting include Willock’s planned departure from Persia, opposed by the Prince; and frontier clashes with Turkey [Ottoman Empire] in which Britain had offered to mediate.The memorandum 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)
12. Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 4 May 1822
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- Abstract: A translation of a letter from Mirza Abdul Wahab [Mīrzā Abdul Wahāb Nishāt Isfahānī], Foreign Minister of Persia [Iran], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs [Viscount Castlereagh] dated Rujjub [Rajab] 1237/April 1822.The letter protests arrears in subsidy payments to Persia, requests British help in negotiating frontier issues with Turkey [Ottoman Empire], and grants permission for Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia, to leave for Britain.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)
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