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1. ‘Persian Gulf. Ispahan. Suppression of Disturbances at.’
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- Abstract: This item consists of copies of correspondence and consultations cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2416/130506. It is the tenth in a series of twenty-eight items on the Persian Gulf.The correspondents are: the Government of Bombay; Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian Gulf; and Peter Stephen, British Agent at Ispahan [Isfahan, also rendered as Isphan in the item].The item concerns the efforts of the local authorities to pursue some ‘rebels’ departing from Ispahan, and the arrival of some of them in Koom [Qom, also rendered as Ghoom in the item].The item contains a table of contents (f 534), and the title page (f 533) contains the following references: ‘Dft. No. 424 of 1851’, Collection No. 1, Vol. 10’, and ‘Examiner’s Office’.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 533 and terminates at f 536, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the bottom right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the item also contains an original pagination sequence.
2. 'Persia. Bakhtiari Offer of Military Assistance.'
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- Abstract: This file consists of a note, written by John Evelyn Shuckburgh, Secretary, Political Department, India Office. It concerns a recent offer of military assistance, which was reportedly made to the British Vice-Consul at Ahwaz [Edward William Charles Noel, British Vice-Consul, Ahvāz, Iran] by the Bakhtiari [Baḵtīārī] Ilkhani, Sardar Zafar. The Ilkhani is reported to have offered to place at the disposal of the British '5000 good cavalry for service against the Kashgais [Qashqais] or elsewhere'.The file goes on to state a series of concrete proposals, formulated by Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson [Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia], following his discussions with the Vice-Consul at Ahwaz. Wilson reportedly proposes that the Ilkhani should be invited to maintain a force of 1500 men under his own command, with the objectives being to stabilise the situation in Ispahan and maintain the authority of the Ilkhani in Bakhtiari territories.Also discussed are the views of Sir Charles Murray Marling [British Minister, Tehran] (who fears that the proposal will bring about a split in the Bakhtiari tribe) and of Sir Herbert Cox [Secretary, Military Department, India Office] (who strongly supports the proposals).Shuckburgh concludes that the Political Department is strongly inclined to the opinion that Wilson's proposals should be approved by His Majesty's Government, since Sardar Zafar's offer affords the British a favourable opportunity of committing the Bakhtiari tribe to their cause.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 153, and terminates at f 154, 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
3. 'Persia: Memorandum Respecting the Revision of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907'
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- Abstract: This file consists of a Foreign Office memorandum (author unknown), followed by an annex written by Charles Murray Marling, British Minister at Tehran.The file concerns the revision of the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. The convention divided Persia into three areas: a Russian sphere in the north, a British sphere in the south-east, and a remaining neutral zone.The memorandum refers to a recent invitation by the Russian government for Britain to enter into possession of practically the whole of the neutral zone. It discusses the possibility of negotiating for a considerable area of the current Russian sphere to be included in the new British territory. The memorandum suggests that Britain's efforts should be concentrated on the towns of Ispahan and Yezd (both of which lie in the Russian sphere) or in the last resort, on Yezd alone. The memorandum goes on to suggest that, as a counterpoise to Russia's cession, Britain might wish to surrender to Russia the oil-bearing districts in Kermanshah, which are located in the Russian sphere, but which currently belong, 'in a more or less undeveloped state', to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.Also discussed is the possibility of Britain agreeing with Russia to limit the activities of the Imperial Bank (Persia's state bank), which currently has nine branches in the Russian zone, to the neutral zone of Persia. The memorandum suggests that such a course of action would hardly be possible unless Britain would be prepared to pay an indemnity to the Imperial Bank for the loss of its branches. However, it is argued that this action would give Britain a valuable lever in its efforts to have Ispahan included in the new British territory.In the annex which follows on from the memorandum, Charles Murray Marling recounts a brief meeting with Sazonof [Sergei Dmitrievich Sazonov], the Russian Foreign Minister, in Petrograd [Saint Petersburg], who reportedly stated that Russia wishes to retain both the district and town of Ispahan, in order to protect Russian trade in the Russian sphere from British merchants.Marling suggests that it would be both in Britain's and in Russia's interests for Ispahan to be included in the new British sphere, on the grounds that to do otherwise would result in a partition of the Bakhtiari tribe's territory. Such a partition, Marling argues, would divide the tribe into 'British' and 'Russian' parties, and would result in both parties possessing a common grievanace against Britain.Marling questions the extent to which the inclusion of Ispahan within the Russian sphere would benefit Russian trade. He speculates on the real reason for Russia wishing to retain the territory, before emphasising the importance of Ispahan, both to Britain's interests in the oilfields of Bakhtiaristan, and to its future position in Mesopotamia.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 15, and terminates at f 17, 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
4. 'Note on a Railway for Southern Persia, by Colonel E.C.S. Williams, C.I.E., R.E.'
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- Abstract: This file consists of a note written by Colonel Edward Charles Sparshott Williams, Deputy Government Director of Indian Guaranteed Railway Companies, in which the author assesses the practicalities and costs of constructing a number of alternative proposed river and rail routes, designed to improve communications from Mohummerah towards Teheran or Ispahan in southern Persia.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences and terminates at folio 200, as it is part of a larger physical volume; this number is written in pencil, is circled, and is located at the top right corner of the folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel; this number is also written in pencil, but is not circled.
5. Vol 22: Letters Outward
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- Abstract: This volume consists of letters written from the Bushire Residency. The first eighty-two items are attributed to William Bruce; the remaining items, with the exception of a few letters written by Bruce from various locations, are written by James Dow, Assistant Surgeon at the Bushire Residency, who was in charge of the Residency during William Bruce's absence. Most of the letters are written to representatives of the Government of Bombay, with the most common recipients being John Wedderburn (Accountant General, Civil Auditor and Military Accountant), Richard Morgan (Secretary to the Marine Board), Francis Warden (Chief Secretary to the Government) and Mountstuart Elphinstone (President and Governor in Council, Bombay). In addition, a significant number of letters are addressed to army officers, including Major General Sir William Grant Keir and Captain Thomas Perronet Thompson. Many of the letters to Bombay concern the routine sending of bills and receipts relating to expenses (the most common of which being supplies for East India Company ships) incurred by the Residency. Other subjects covered in the volume include: William Bruce joining HMS Edenon her voyage along the Arab coast in search of Wahhābī boats; news and speculation regarding Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mīrzā's plans to launch an attack against Bahrain; relations between Arab chieftains following the General Treaty with the Arab Tribes of the Persian Gulf of 1820; details of the Residency complying with requests for funds or supplies for the British troops stationed at Ra's al-Khaymah, and later, at Qeshm; details of a treaty between the Imam of Muscat (Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd) and the Shaikhs of Bahrain, as relayed to Bruce by Rahma bin Jabir; the death of a crew member of the Elizacountry ship and the subsequent investigation into the treatment received on board that ship; presents sent by His Highness Ebrāhim Khan, Governor of Kermān, to Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay; the death, on 10 November 1821, of Dr Andrew Jukes, Political Agent in Persia.Physical description: Pagination: There is a pagination sequence, which is written in pencil in the top right corners of the rectos and in the top left corners of the versos. It runs from 1 to 175.Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 2, and ends on the inside of the back cover on number 95. This is the sequence used by this catalogue to reference items within the file.
6. File 1187/1914 Pt 1 'Persia - Policy Anglo-Russian relations'
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- Abstract: This volume contains papers relating to Russian policy, British policy, and Anglo-Russian relations, in Persia [Iran] in 1914.The papers mostly consist of copies of correspondence between Sir Edward Grey, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and Sir Walter Beaupre Townley, British Minister to Persia, and copy correspondence between Grey and Sir George William Buchanan, British Ambassador to Russia at St Petersburg. The volume also includes India Office minute papers, correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office, and correspondence between the Secretary of State for India and the Viceroy [of India].The file includes correspondence regarding the following issues:the opposition of the Russian Government to the employment of the Persian Gendarmerie under Swedish officers in the Russian sphere of Persia, and the Russian desire to increase the size of the Persian Cossack Brigade under Russian officersthe growth of Russian influence in Ispahan [Isfahan] and further south in Persiathe question of the future of Southern Persia from the point of view of the maintenance of British interests and British tradethe collection of taxes in [Iranian] Azerbaijan and elsewhere in the Northern provinces of Persia by the Russian consulates, from Russian subjects, Russian protected persons, and othersthe question of the removal of Shuja-ed-Dowleh as Governor-General of [Iranian] Azerbaijanthe Russian desire for the replacement of Samsam-es-Sultaneh as Governnor-General of IspahanThe volume also includes: a copy of the Convention between Great Britain and Russia signed on 31 August 1907, ‘containing Arrangements on the subject of Persia, Afganistan, and Thibet [Tibet]’ (in English and French); and related correspondence between Sir Arthur Nicolson, British Ambassador to Russia, and Sir Edward Grey, and between Nicolson and Alexander Petrovich Iswolsky [Izvolsky], Russian Foreign Minister, dated 1907 (the latter correspondence is in English and French).The file includes a few other folios in French, including a copy of an unsigned memorandum communicated to the Russian Minister at Téhéran [Tehran] by the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated 25 June 1914 (folios 81 to 82).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 (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 183; 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.
7. File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’
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- Abstract: This part contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to British interests in the South of Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to the following:the Persian Transport Company considering the question of improving the Bakhtiari Lynch road between Ispahan and Ahwaz, so as to make it suitable for wheeled traffic, or to possibly find an easier route by another alignmentthe question of where the road should end, and possible Russian objections to the road terminating at IspahanCaptain Noel’s proposal of Kuh-i-Mangasht as a practicable hill stationthe expenses of the survey of the proposed new road, which was carried out by the engineer to the Persian Transport CompanyThe correspondence is largely between the following:HM Minister to Persia (Charles Murray Marling) and the Foreign OfficeCaptain E Noel, HM Vice-Consul, Ahwaz, and Captain Arnold Talbot Wilson, Deputy Chief Political Officer, Basrah [Basra]Captain E Noel and Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, Chief Political Officer, BasrahThe India Office and the Foreign OfficeThe Persian Transport Company Limited and the Foreign OfficeHM Vice-Consul, Ahwaz, and HM Minister to PersiaPhysical description: 1 item (123 folios)
8. File 860/1916 Pt 1-3 'PERSIA: SHIRAZ AND ISPAHAN CONSULATES'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the consular appointment at Shiraz, the Ispahan consulate, and the Shiraz consulate accounts.Correspondents include the Under-Secretary of State, India Office; the Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office; His Majesty's Consul, Shiraz; HM Minister, Tehran; and the Viceroy.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 559; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.