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13. File 1880/1904 Pt 2 'Perso-Afghan Frontier: - The Undemarcated portion. Afghan encroachments.'
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- Abstract: The volume contains information on the undemarcated portion of the frontier between Afghanistan and Persia (north of Siah Koh) during the period 1905-1912. The papers consist of copies of Government of India printed memoranda (with accompanying minute sheets of the Secret Department), dispatches, telegrams, minutes, and maps.The papers include: information relating to the frontier (reports, correspondence and map) compiled by Captain Terence Humphrey Keyes, His Britannic Majesty's Consul at Turbat-i-Haidari, 1905-06; reports by Major Roger Lloyd Kennion, His Britannic Majesty's Consul for Seistan [Sīstān] and Kain [Kūh-e Kā’īn], 1907-09, including genealogical tree entitled 'Haji Mir Muhtasham Gilani, Meshedi, Misri, Ulvi, and Husaini' (folio 60); papers concerning Afghan encroachments between Hashtadan and the Namaskar Lake, 1908-10, including report (folios 48-50) by Major William Frederick Travers O'Connor, His Britannic Majesty's Consul for Seistan and Kain; further papers on alleged Afghan encroachments, 1910-12, including correspondence between the Viceroy (Lord Hardinge) and the Foreign Secretary (Sir Edward Grey); and discussion of the occupation of Meshed by Russian troops, 1912.Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 115; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
14. File 1719/1912 'Persia: Russians in Meshed'
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- Abstract: Correspondence discusses Russian activities in Meshed including:assessment of the Russian bombardment of a religious temple;relationship with the Nakhai tribe;complaints that the Russians were encouraging agitation to bring the back the ex-Shah which was unsettling the region.Correspondents include: Sir George William Buchanan; Major Percy Molesworth Sykes, H B M Consul in Sistan, Captain J B Hunter; Acting Consul for Sistan and Kain.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 199; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
15. File 2626/1905 ‘Persia:- Military Attaché at Meshed’
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- Abstract: The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials about government expenditure on the Government of India post of Military Attaché at the British Consulate General at Meshed in Persia. The main correspondents are senior officials in London at the Foreign Office, India Office, War Office and Treasury. They discuss the joint funding of this post by the Government of India and the Home Government in London (also referred to as the Imperial Government), the continuance of the existing financial contribution to the salary for this post by the Foreign Office and an additional contribution by the War Department out of Army funds, 1910-1911. The correspondence includes representations in 1905 from Arthur Hardinge the Consul General at Tehran, Lieutenant Colonel C F Minchin the Consul General for the province of Khorasan at Meshed and his successor Major P Molesworth Sykes, to the Government of India and the Home Government in London, advocating the retention of Meshed as a centre of military intelligence about Russian Central Asia and the appointment there of a military intelligence officer, given the absence of a British Consular presence in Russian Turkestan and the value of such intelligence gathering to Government of India military authorities in particular.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 264; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
16. File 3414/1906 Pt 1 'Persia: telegraphs; Seistan telegraph lines; Meshed-Seistan; Meshed-Tehran; Robat-Seistan; Nasratabad-Koh i Malik Siah; proposed exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
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- Abstract: Correspondence discusses the construction of telegraph lines in Persia. Issues discussed include the implications for Britain's relations with the Persian government and how influence could be achieved. Also discussed is the British strategy for negotiating with the Russians who held a sphere of influence in northern Persia, in order to secure British interests in their sphere of influence in southern Persia.The route, costs and staffing of a number of telegraph lines are discussed: Meshed-Seistan, Meshed-Tehran; Robat-Seistan; Nasratabad to Koh-i-Malik Siah, as well as the costs involved in upgrading the lines before their permanent transfer from the Indian Telegraph Department to the Indo-European Telegraph Department. A further isssue discussed is how to overcome a Russian monopoly on the cypress woods which were an essential material for a construction of a telegraph line. Arrangements for the dispatch of British signallers to staff the telegraph offices also features in the correspondence.The file contains a number of statistical tables as well as a technical drawing and a map showing the telegraph offices on the Meshed-Nasratabad (Seistan) line (ff 109-110).Correspondents include: Gilbert Elliot-Murray Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India; Sir Arthur Nicholson; Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary; Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice; Mr Evelyn Grant Duff; John Evelyn Shuckburgh; H M Consul at Seistan; Sir Walter Beaupré Townley, Minister for Persia.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 422; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
17. File 3414/1906 Pt 2 'Persia: telegraphs; exchange of telegraphs with Russia'
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- Abstract: The file contains correspondence concerning the Anglo-Persian convention specifically as it related to telegraph lines in the Russian (northern) and British (southern) zones of influence:the transfer of the control of telegraph lines betwen Russia and Britain with reference to the zones of influence agreed in Anglo-Russian convention of 1907. The specific telegraphs lines discussed are Meshed-Tehran and Meshed-Seistan.Anglo-Russian negotiations concerning the procedure by which the transfer would take place.Correspondence discusses specific details such as whether British signallers would be allowed to continue operating in certain areas and the difficulty this would raise if Russia wanted similar arrangement. Also discussed is German interest in these matters.Physical description: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 382; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top write corner of the recto side of each folio.
18. File 80/1913 Pt 2 'Persia: Telegraphs'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises one part discussing the administration of the Persian telegraph lines.The volume contains correspondence, minutes, notes, and telegrams regarding the restoration of the 1913 agreements between the Telegraph Department of the British Government and the Persian Minister of Post and Telegraphs for the reorganization of the Arabistan Telegraph Lines.The volume also includes documents on the financial obligations of the British, Indian and Persian Government, correspondence on the Persian control over the telegraph line between Meshed [Mashhad, Iran] and Seistan [Sistan region, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan], and on the administration of the offices in Abadan and Mohammerah to be transferred to Persia.The principal correspondents are the Eastern Telegraph Company Limited, the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Colonial Office, the Indo-European Telegraph Department, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, His Majesty's Minister in Tehran, the British Legation in Tehran, and the High Commissioner for Iraq.The volume contains two copies of the 'Map to illustrate the telegraph lines of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and Connected System' (folios 199 and 312), and 'A collection of Conventions and Agreements relating to Telegraphs in Turkey in Asia, Persia, the Persian Gulf and Mekran', 1916 (folios 200-217).The final part of the volume contains telegrams mentioning incidents caused by 'Afghan raiders' to the Seistan-Meshed telegraph line, near to the borders with Afghanistan, in 1923.The volume comprises part 2. This includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, year the subject file was opened, subject heading, and list of correspondence references contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.There is a document partly written in French within the volume, minutes of a meeting held at the British Legation in Gulhek [Tehran].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 407; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
19. File 2984/1920 'PERSIA: TRADE WITH EAST PERSIA [REPORTS & NOTES BY MAJOR TEMPLE]'
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- Abstract: The volume contains papers relating to Britain’s trade with east Persia [Iran], chiefly comprising reports by Major B Temple, British Vice-Consul, Meshed [Mashhad].Major Temple’s reports cover various aspects of trade including development possibilities, trade routes, foreign competition (notably Russia), local resources, topography and economic geography, types of transport, road and rail networks, telegraph and postal communications, banking facilities, favoured merchants to trade with, merchant and trade conferences, and the political circumstances in Persia and surrounding countries.The papers including the following:‘Report of a Commercial Survey of the East Persian Trade Route between Quetta and Meshed’ by Major Temple, dated 1919, first proof (ff 166-197) and final version (ff 34-60), plus letters regarding revisions made by the Department of Overseas Trade and comments by India Office officials, and a proposal for possible confidential circulation of the report to a limited number of selected British firms‘Political and Economic Report on Khorasan for the year 1919’, forwarded by HM Officiating Consul-General and Agent to the Government of India in Khorasan, to HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Tehran, co-authored by the Consul-General (political section) and Major Temple (economic section) (ff 148-159)‘Trade Notes’ by Major Temple, January-February 1920, forwarded by HM Officiating Consul-General and Agent to the Government of India in Khorasan, to HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, Tehran (ff 138-146)‘Trade Notes’ by Major Temple, February-April 1920 and June 1920, forwarded by HM Officiating Consul-General and Agent to the Government of India in Khorasan, to the Comptroller-General, Department of Overseas Trade, with related letters and notes concerning the potential establishment of a ‘forwarding agency’ at Meshed (ff 17-32)‘Commercial Survey of East Persia’ by Major Temple, forwarded in December 1919 by HM Officiating Consul-General and Agent to the Government of India in Khorasan to the Director of the Department of Overseas Trade (Development and Intelligence), London (ff 62-135)Quarterly Trade Returns for 1920, completed and forwarded by HM Officiating Consul-General and Agent to the Government of India in Khorasan, to the Controller General, Department of Overseas Trade (Development and Intelligence).Papers comprise: printed reports; India Office Political Department registry dividers including notes by India Office officials on groupings of papers; internal letters and notes by India Office officials; and some letters from the Department of Overseas Trade.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 main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 200; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: multiple additional printed pagination sequences are present in parallel between ff 35-197.
20. File 4853/1912 ‘Persia. Military Attaché at Meshed.’
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- Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, and other papers, relating to the appointment and retention of a Military Attaché at Meshed, Persia [Mashhad, Iran]. Correspondence is exchanged between representatives of the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, and the Army Department of the Viceroy (Government of India), and covers: the necessity of retaining a Military Attaché at Meshed; financial contributions from different government departments for the maintenance of the post; in 1913, the Foreign Office's desire to disassociate itself with maintenance of the post; in 1913, the Viceroy's proposal to appoint Captain Frank Graham Marsh of the 9th Ghurkha Rifles to the post of Military Attaché at Meshed; in 1918, Captain Marsh's replacement by Major Geoffrey Davis Pike, in the post of Military Agent in the Caucasus; proposals for the maintenance of additional personnel at Meshed, including wireless radio operators and transport personnel; in 1921, the War Office and Army Council's decision to withdraw financial support for the post; in 1922, the retention of a Military Attaché at Meshed on a reduced scale.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 205; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
21. File 6342/1920 'Persia: Meshed; Consular Appointments'
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- Abstract: This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes regarding the position of Consul in Meshed [Mashhad] and the political and economic situation in East Persia [Iran]. The papers notably cover:Description of the political situation in East Persia where disturbances and outbreaks of conflict were occurring‘Bolshevik’ invasion of Khorassan [Khorasan]Conflict between Muslim troops and Anglo-Persian forcesThe dismissal of Lieutenant-Colonel W G Grey as Agent to the Government of India at Meshed and His Majesty’s Consul-General for KhorasanThe appointment of British consuls at Meshed during 1920-30Description regarding the previous British Consul at Meshed and general consular appointments in PersiaThe adoption of the title 'Agent to the Government of India' in addition to that of Consul-General.The principal correspondents are British Legation, Tehran (correspondence sometimes comes from Gulhek [Qolhak, also written Gula Hek], which was the Legation’s summer hill station); Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tehran; 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 front 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 111; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
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