Abstract: This item comprises manuscript copies of secret letters, despatches, translations of letters, intelligence reports relating to events in Tehran.The principal correspondent is Mr Taylour Thomson, HM Consul, Tehran.Physical description: 1 item (56 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay’s Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 73 of 1843, dated 31 October 1843. The enclosure is dated 13 August 1843, and consists of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran (Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil), relating to affairs in Tehran, including the return of the Shah of Persia [Iran] to Tehran.Enclosed within the letter are further letters from Sheil, which are mainly addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (the Earl of Abderdeen, i.e. George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen).Physical description: 1 item (32 folios)
az talʼīfāt-i Iʻtimād al-Salṭanah Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān.Lithographed.Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http:purl.oclc.orgDLFbenchrepro0212 MHIn Persian.
az talʼīfāt-i Iʻtimād al-Salṭanah Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān.Lithographed.Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation. December 2002. http:purl.oclc.orgDLFbenchrepro0212 MHIn Persian.
Abstract: Correspondence exchanged between the India Office (John Gilbert Laithwaite), Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter; George William Rendel), and the British Legetation at Tehran (Raymond Cecil Parr), concerning the desire to retain a British telegraphist at Tehran after the withdrawal of the Indo-European Telegraph Department from Persia [Iran], in order to maintain a high degree of accuracy in telegrams sent from Tehran and London via Bushire. An alternative option discussed in the papers is the transmission of confidential correspondence between Bushire and Tehran by air mail, using the Junkers Air Service.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 30; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file is chiefly comprised of copies, or parts of copies, of
Bulletin, a bi-monthly report published by the Bank Melli Iran:a complete copy of
Bulletinno. 81, Vol XIII April–May 1946 (ff 92-165)a complete copy of
Bulletinno. 84, Vol XIII October–November 1946 (ff 6-65)a supplement to
BulletinNo. 82 entitled
Iran’s Development Plan(ff 76-88)front covers and contents pages to a number of other issues of
Bulletin(nos. 74, 75, 76, 77, 79, 82 and 83)The two complete copies of
Bulletininclude reports and data on: foreign trade; foreign exchange rates; prices of gold and silver; weekly rates of exchange on the London market; money situation; details of bank rates of discounts; cost of living index for Iran; indexes of wholesale prices at Tehran; commodity prices; tables of Iranian coinage; lists of companies registered in the previous year.At the rear of the file, enclosed with a letter dated 21 January 1946 from the British Ambassador at Tehran (Reader William Bullard) is an English translation of the General State Budget (Allotments), tabled by the Iranian Minister of Finance on 23 December 1945 (ff 185-187).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 187; 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.
Abstract: This file contains material relating to a review of politico-military conditions in Persia [Iran], following the revelation of Turkish plans to invade Persia in order to reach Afghanistan, which would in turn have threatened the British Empire in India.Physical description: Foliation: this file consists of three physical files. The foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover of file one (ff 1-174), through file two (ff 175-296), and terminates at the inside back cover of file three (ff 297-444); these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 9-72, and ff 174-443; these are also circled, and have been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports and accounts relating to a subsidy arranged for the Imperial Bank of Persia in May 1903. The subsidy was paid by the Government of India and related to the establishment of the Imperial Bank of Persia branch bank in Nasratabad in Seistan province.Correspondence discusses the terms of the granting of the subsidy, grounds for its discontuance, and the proposal of the Government of India to transfer the business of the Seistan branch from the Imperial Bank of Persia to the Punjab Banking Company, if the Imperial Bank of Persia was unable to operated as a combined banking and trade agency business.The correspondence includes (ff 158-165) the Proceedings at the 15th Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Imperial Bank of Persia, held at the Cannon Street Hotel, on the 12th December, 1904'.The principal correspondents in the volume include the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the Manager, Imperial Bank of Persia (G Newell); the Secretary of State for India, JohnMorley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn; and the British Consul for Seistan and Kain (Major R L Kennion).The volume is part 1 of 1. 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 front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 169; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly between the UK Foreign Office Government of India officials, reporting on the proposed telegraph lines Tehran-Khanikin and Tehran-Shahrud. Also discussed is the Indo-European Telegraph Department's undertakings in Persia and German enquiries regarding the concession. The file includes (ff 43-46) the proposed agreement between Imperial Russian and the Persian Government and the Indo-European Telegraph Company.Correspondents include: Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British ambassador to Persia; Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 211; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, printed reports, a press cutting and a map, relating to the connection of the railway system of Europe to the railway system of India by the construction of railway lines through Persia.The discussion in the volume relates to the proposal of a Russian consortium and the response of the Government of India to this proposal. A Report (No. 18 of 1911' folios 144 - 160) notes that the Government of India would do well to accept in principle the Russian proposal subject to a number of modifications. A map entitled 'Indexed Map Showing Proposed Railways in Persia' (folio 160) accompanies the report. Suggested modifications included:the point of intersection of the trans-Persian railway with the Indian railway system (British preference for Karachi); and concessions for branch lines (Bandar Abbas, Charbar, Mohammerah);the requirement that both main and branch lines in Persian territory be deemed international with Russia and Britain holding preponderant shares and Persia included as a participant;and the use of a different gauge railway in the British and Russian zones. As a quid pro quo for their support on this matter Britain expected the Russians to cease any consideration of extending the Trans-Caspian Railway to the Persia-Afghan border.Also discussed are the negotiations about a loan between the
Société des Études du Chemin de Fer Transpersanand the Persian Government and a suggestion that the British and French governments should guarantee a substantial loan by securing it against the crown jewels.The following topics are also discussed: the Foreign Office proposal to refer the whole question of railway development in Persia to the Committee of Imperial Defence; a draft application for the concession; a memorandum by Brigadier General A H Gordon; dispatch of instructions to His Majesty's Ambassador at St Petersberg on the attitude of the Her Majesty's Government; the view of the Sir G Buchanan on the attitude of the Russian Government to the question of alignment.The principal correspondents in the volume include: His Majesty's Secretary of State for India, the Earl of Crewe; Deputy Secretary to the Government of India, E H S Clark; His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox; the President of the Railway Board; Agent to the Governor-General and Chief Commissioner in Baluchistan.This volume 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 163; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, notes, estimates and statements of expenditure, relating to the purchase of land adjacent to the British Legation in Gulahak in Tehran. The discussion in the volume relates to the cost of improvements in the premises of the legation at Gulahak and how these costs should be borne between the British government and the Government of India.Further discussion surrounds the criticism by the Office of Works of the plans for refurbishing the accommodation and the response of the Foreign Office; also an explanation by the Foreign Office as to why they had not previously consulted the India Office about such expenditure. Included in the volume are number of financial accounts, such as 'Statement of Expenditure in Persia in 1906-07 and 1907-08 incurred by the Imperial Government' (ff 169 - 170).The principal correspondents in the volume include: Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir Edward Grey; Ambassador to Persia, Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice; First Commissioner of His Majesty's Office of Works.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 172; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.