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409. File 3939/1926 Pt 6 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties. Persian Gulf Section.'
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- Abstract: This part relates to the Government of India's decision to issue a revised edition of Aitchison's Treaties (full title: A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads Relating to India and Neighbouring Countries), with revised narratives for each geographical area covered, incorporating the principal events that have occurred since the publication of the previous edition in 1909.The part contains two copies of proofs for the following revised narratives: Treaties and Engagements Relating to the Arab Principalities in the Persian Gulf(ff 305-328 and ff 617-640) and Treaties and Engagements Relating to Oman (Muscat)(ff 406-422 and ff 641-657). Also included are copies of related treaties, agreements, and correspondence for the Persian Gulf (ff 329-405 and ff 540-616) and Oman sections (ff 423-477 and ff 485-539), which cover the periods 1806-1927 and 1798-1928 respectively.The proofs are accompanied by interdepartmental correspondence discussing the contents of the narratives, and the possibility of amendments and additions being made, such as for the parts entitled 'The Wahabis and Nejd' and 'Kuwait' in the Persian Gulf section. In addition, the correspondence discusses the question of whether to include recently concluded agreements with Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Kuwait in the Persian Gulf section. Also included is a list of anomalies and misprints that have been identified in the proofs.The main correspondents are as follows: the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India; officials of the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and the Government of India's Foreign and Political Department.The French language material consists of a small amount of the aforementioned treaties and agreements.Physical description: 1 item (408 folios)
410. File 2297/1919 ‘Persian Gulf Residency Monthly Reports. 1912-20.’
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- Abstract: The file consists of reports of news received by the Persian Gulf Residency (the ‘Political Diary’ of the Residency) relating to various areas of Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulf, for each month from November 1911 to December 1920 (there is no report for June 1914). The parts of Persia covered by the reports include: Mohammerah [Khorramshahr], Ispahan, Bushire [Bushehr], Shiraz, Bunder Abbas (Bandar Abbas), Lingah (Lingeh) and Kerman (Kirman). Other countries in the Persian Gulf covered by the reports include Maskat [Muscat], Bahrain and Koweit [Kuwait]. The reports were compiled by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox), or in his absence by the Officiating Political Resident, the Deputy Political Resident or the First Assistant Resident.They report on matters including: local officials; arms traffic; Customs; local government; British interests; foreign interests; the movements of HM Representatives; and the condition of roads, the telegraph and the postal service.The file also includes India Office minute paper cover sheets.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 520; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
411. File 2768/1913 'Arms traffic: Muscat warehouse; claims of British firms'
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- Abstract: This file contains letters relating to the sale and shipment of arms and ammunition to Muscat in Oman. The majority of the correspondence is between the British firm of C H Laubenburg and British Political Agent in Muscat. The letters discuss changes to particular shipments of arms and ammunition as well as disputes and claims on payments due to the arms supplier. Other firms included in the correspondence are that of a W Darlow of Bedford, and Kynoch Limited.French correspondence in the file is issued from the French Consul in Muscat, Antoine Goguyer or Algerian Merchant Abraham Elbaz.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 320; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
412. File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers'
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- Abstract: This part contains correspondence relating to the salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers, mainly those employed in Persia.The correspondence mostly consists of: letters from the Foreign Office to the India Office, including enclosed Foreign Office correspondence; draft letters from the India Office to the Foreign Office; correspondence by telegram between the India Office and the Foreign Department of the Government of India; and internal India Office correspondence. The enclosed correspondence in letters from the Foreign Office largely consists of correspondence between the Foreign Office and the Treasury, and between the Foreign Office and HM Minister, Tehran.The correspondence mostly relates to the payment of exchange compensation allowance or temporary salary increases, to HM Legation Tehran, and to diplomatic and consular staff in Persia generally (due to the high prices and the low rate of exchange caused by the First World War), and the Secretary of State for India in Council accepting a moiety of the cost as a charge on the Indian Exchequer. The file also includes some correspondence relating to the extension of exchange concessions to Maskat [Muscat], Bahrein [Bahrain] and Shargah [Sharjah].Most of the correspondence dates from 1916 to 1918, but the file also includes copies of correspondence from December 1908 to June 1909, regarding the payment in Persian currency at a fixed rate of exchange of the rupee salaries of non-gazetted consular establishments and of the telegraph staff in Persia (folios 236 to 250).Physical description: 1 item (250 folios)
413. File 3784/1916 ‘War: Persia German Consular Archives’
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- Abstract: The volume mostly consists of translated copies of selected records from the German Consulate at Bushire, Persia [Iran]. These records largely consist of correspondence of the German Consulate at Bushire with the German Imperial Chancellor in Berlin and the German Legation at Tehran, dated 1899 to 1914. The records are divided into six sets of papers: set I, relating to Koweit [Kuwait]; set II, relating to Masqat [Muscat]; set III, labelled ‘Miscellaneous papers of importance (re status of German consulate Bushire etc.etc.)’; set IV, ‘Political Papers 1913’; set V ‘Political Archives 1913 (Continued)’; and set VI, ‘Political 1913 (Continuation & Conclusion)’.The file also includes: India Office Secret Department Minute Paper covering sheets for the correspondence; and some correspondence of 1917 between Sir Arthur Hirtzel, Secretary of the India Office Political Department, and the Imperial Bank of Persia, in relation to a passage in a despatch from the German Consul at Bushire regarding the Bank reportedly being willing to do business with the German company Wonckhaus (also spelled as Wonkhaus in the correspondence).The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is 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 281; these numbers are written in pencil and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves, have not been foliated.
414. File 13/5 'Foreign Consular representation in Kuwait (and Persian Gulf)'
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- Abstract: The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to foreign consular representation in the Persian Gulf.Papers dated November 1933 to February 1935 include:correspondence of the Political Agent, Kuwait, with the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agent, Bahrain, and copies of correspondence sent by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, relating to the visit of the United States Minister at Baghdad to Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat, and his intended visit to Riyadhcorrespondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the United States Consulate General, Baghdad (James S Moose), and Dr C S G Mylrea, of the American Mission, Kuwait, concerning the annual report on the automotive vehicle census of Kuwait, to be submitted by the American Consulate GeneralPapers dated March 1948 to April 1949 consist of correspondence relating to Indian consular representation in the Persian Gulf. The file does not include papers for the period March 1935 to February 1948.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 68; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
415. File 6818/1920 'Muscat Levy Corps.'
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- Abstract: The volume contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to the adherence of Sultan Saiyid Taimur Bin Faisal bin Turki [Taymūr bin Fayṣal] to an arms convention and correspondence relating to the development of the Muscat Levy Corps, including its purpose, staffing, munitions and armaments.The volume includes a report (ff 12-21) by Captain R W G Stephens, Commandant Muscat Infantry, on the Muscat Levy Corps – its efficiency, discipline, budget and finances, armaments and recommendations. Also included are some 'rough notes' written in 1928 (ff 26-28) by the Financial Adviser to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (Bertram Sidney Thomas).In addition, there is a printed copy of the 'Convention for the control of the trade in arms and ammunition, and protocol, signed at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, September 10, 1916' (ff 136-143).Correspondents include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Arthur Prescott Trevor); Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department (Denys Bray); the Political Agent, Muscat (Major Gordon Patrick Murphy).The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 146; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
416. File 697/1920 'Koweit Order-in-Council'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Kuwait Order in Council for each year from 1920-1928. The Order in Council refers to the legal instruments whereby His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the territories of the Shaikh of Kuwait whether by 'Treaty, capitulation, usage, sufferance and other lawful means.'Also included in the volume are copies of the Order in Council in Muscat and Bahrein [Bahrain]:'Statutory rules and orders, 1915. No. 132 Foreign Jurisdiction, the Maskat Order in Council, 1915' (ff 259-271)'The Bahrein Order in Council, 1913' (ff 272-284).The principal correspondents in the volume are: the Political Agent, Kuwait; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 490; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
417. File 13/8 'American Consular Posts in Persian Gulf and American Penetration'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence relating to American consular posts in the Persian Gulf. This largely consists of: correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the British Ambassador, Baghdad; copies of correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the India Office, and between the Political Resident and the Political Agents at Bahrain and Muscat; copies of correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office; and copies of correspondence between the Foreign Office and the United States Embassy, London.This correspondence mainly relates to the following subjects:the informal inclusion of Oman (Muscat), Qatar, and the Trucial Coast within the district of the United States Consul at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and the activities of the United States Vice-Consul at Dhahranthe proposed agreement between the United Kingdom and the US for the reciprocal grant of certain financial privileges for officials other than diplomatic and consular personnelthe report of the Political Agent, Kuwait, on the visit to Kuwait from 13 to 16 July 1945 of the US Vice-Consul at Basrah [Basra]the visit to Kuwait of the US Ambassador to Iraq as a guest of the Kuwait Oil Company on 28 March 1947 for two nightsenquiries made by the US Vice-Consul at Basra to the Political Agent, Kuwait, about Farsi Island and the Kuwait Order-in-Council and ‘extra-territoriality’the establishment of an American Consulate at KuwaitAmerican consular ‘infiltration’ into Kuwait and the saluting by gun of American consular officers during the visit of units of the US NavyPhysical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 60; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
418. File 815/1917 Pt 1A 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; improvements on original scheme; proposals for lights at Shaikh Shuaib, Henjam, Muscat and Jask'
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- Abstract: This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the negotiations for the installation and maintenance of lighthouses and buoying in the Persian Gulf after the First World War, specifically at Muscat, Henjam and Sheikh Shuaib. Related matters of discussion include the following: the improvement of the lighting and buoying service and its locations; observations and instructions regarding the improvements; building materials for the lighthouses (ff 35-39); the involvement of the AGA Gas company regarding the cost of the arrangement and permission from the Persian Government. This part of the volume also includes two maps of the Persian Gulf showing the suggested system of lighting (ff 62-63). Some of the correspondence touches on the more general issue of financing lighting and buoying in the Persian Gulf.Notable correspondents include the following: Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; Government of India, External Affairs Department; Secretary of the State for India; Muscat Political Agency; Deputy Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; HM Treasury; Director of the Royal Indian Marine.Physical description: 1 item (59 folios)
419. File 815/1917 Pt 1B 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; Muscat lighthouse'
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- Abstract: This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the rebuilding of and improvements to the lighthouse in Muscat after the First World War. The correspondence notes that the Muscat lighthouse is not properly lit, and that there is a need to improve the pathway up to the cliff where the lighthouse is situated.The correspondence covers the following: agreements to improve the pathway, and a general description of the construction, with abstracts and measurements (ff 79-80, 114-116 and 141-143).Notable correspondents include the following: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Secretary of the State for India; various departments of the Government of India, including the Army Department, the Marine Department, the Military Department and the Public Works Department; the Overseer, Muscat; the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf; and the Director of the Royal Indian Marine.Physical description: 1 item (87 folios)
420. The Mission of Mehedi Ali Khan in Persia, Appointment of John Malcolm as Envoy in Persia, and Other Matters
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- Abstract: The correspondence includes copies of letters, translated letters, and secret and political consultations related to the following:‘Deputation of Mehedi Ali Khan [Mīrzā Mahdī ‘Alī Khān, several spellings appear in this part] to the Court of Persia [Iran] for the purpose of counteracting the designs of Zeman Shah [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Amīr of Afghanistan, also spelled Zemaun] against Hindostan [Subcontinental India]’The progress of Mehedi Ali Khan’s negotiations with Persian officials at Tahiran [Tehran, also spelled as Teheran] including the Grand Vizier, Hajy Mirza Ibraheem Khan [Ḥājī Ibrāhīm Khān Zand Kalantar Shīrāzī, Eʿtemād al-Dawlah, Persian Prime Minister], and the King of Persia [Fatḥ ʻAlī Shāh Qājār, also called Bābā Khān]Appointment of Captain John Malcolm to the office of Envoy from the British Government to the Court of Persia on 12 October 1799The British offer of supplies of arms to the Persian GovernmentExchange of letters with Hajy Mahomed Kheleel Mullik Ettijar, native of Hazbin [Qazwin] [Ḥājī Muḥammad Khalīl Qazwīnī, Malik al-Tujjār of the Persian Empire, various spellings of his name and title feature] related to his help with the execution of the Company’s charges in Bushire [Bushehr]A list of superfine broad cloth to deliver in PersiaThe trading activities of the Governor of Bushire, Sheikh Naser Khan [Shaikh Naṣr Āl Madhkūr, son of Shaikh Nāṣir Āl Madhkūr, also spelled as Nusser]The rebellion of the Governor of Fars, Hussan Kully Khan [Ḥasan Qulī Khān]Notes on the King of Persia, his family and wealthExchange of letters between Sheikh Naser Khan of Bushire and Jonathan Duncan, the Governor at Bombay, regarding Mehedi Ali Khan’s position in BushireThe efforts of Mehedi Ali Khan to send the two princes, Mahomed [Maḥmūd Shāh Durrānī] and Ferouze [Fayrūz Shāh Durrānī] brothers of Zeman Shah, towards Herat [also spelled as Huraut] and Candahar [Kandahar] via Khorassan [Khorasan]Account of Abdur Reheem [‘Abd al-Raḥīm Khān Shīrāzī, Beglerbegi of Iraq] from the Royal Residence in Tahiran in relation to the happenings at the Persian Court; Mehedi Ali Khan’s personality and achievements; and the issue of Zeman ShahGovernor General, Lord Mornington [Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley of Norragh], honouring Mehedi Ali Khan and Hajy Mahomed Kheleel with a ‘khilaut’ [ khil'a, distinction] for their good conduct in PersiaA translated copy of a firmaun [farmān] from the King of Persia regarding the relations of his country with the EnglishDetails of the internal affairs of MuscatFrench activities in the GulfThe activities of Armenian vesselsNews of correspondence being established between Tippo Sultaun [Sulṭān Fātiḥ ‘Alī Ṣāḥib Tīpū, Ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore] and Zeman Shah, and their shared feelings against the English presence in IndiaZeman Shah’s anti Shea [Shi‘a] policyCommunication with Soliman Basha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, also spelled as Soleyman] of Bagdad [Baghdad, also spelled as Bagdat]The French siege of Akkah (Acre, also spelled as Akka), and the response of the Ottoman and the BritishThe Ottomans and Wahabies [Wahhābīs] reaching an agreement regarding the governing of Lehesa [Al-Ahsa]Instructions and information to Captain Malcolm about his trip to PersiaThe movements of the Ottoman troops in SyriaThe possibility of the British establishing relations with Zeman ShahOttoman-Persian relationsOttoman-British relationsRussian-Persian relationsFrench-Arab relations.Physical description: 1 item (126 folios)