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1. '14/6 Vol I OFF SHORE OIL'
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- Abstract: The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to offshore oil and the definition of territorial waters in the Persian Gulf.The discussion in the volume relates to the following issues:A Saudi proclamation regarding seabed and subsoil rights and decree defining territorial watersA Persian Government draft Bill on seabed rights (folio 27)A draft declaration (folio 38) of the Muscat government and other Arab coast rulers.Further discussion (ff 31-33) surrounds the concern of the Governments of the United Kingdom and the United States to establish agreed jurisdiction to allow seabed drilling by oil companies on an agreed basis and prevent claims by other powers.Also discussed (ff 56-57) is the visit by Bertram Thomas to the Trucial Coast in November 1948 as a representative of an oil company.Included (ff 9-22) in the file are copies of the 'Royal Pronouncement concerning the policy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with respect to the subsoil and sea Bed areas in the Persian Gulf contiguous to the coasts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia'.The file features the following principal correspondents: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (William Rupert Hay); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London (Ernest Bevin); an official of the Foreign Office (Sir Bernard Alexander Brocas Burrows) the Political Agent, Muscat (Randall Erskine Ellison); HM Ambassador to Iran (Sir John Helier Le Rougetel).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 58; 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 A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
2. 'Persia, Herat, and Seistan'
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- Abstract: The memorandum concerns the state of diplomatic relations between Britain and Persia; it is the view of a number of British officials that the time is ripe to secure a privileged position for Britain at the expense of Russia. To this end it therefore discusses the pros and cons of ceding Herat, Seistan [Sīstān], or other Afghan territory to Persia.A narrative (from 14 January 1879 to 1 January 1880) of these diplomatic exchanges is outlined through extracts from correspondence (largely telegrams), and through recollections of conversations, between British and Persian officials. This then develops into more detailed proposals on the terms by which the British might be willing to cede, and the Persians willing to accept, Herat. Parts of the narrative are in French; presumably the original conversation/correspondence was in this language.The memorandum is signed by Owen Tudor Burne of the India Office.This narrative is continued in IOR/L/PS/18/C29/2.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at f 79, and terminates at f 92, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original pagination sequence.
3. PZ 6079/40 Correspondence requesting that Facilities for Safe Passage between London and Tehran be granted to Mr Fazlollah Nabil of the Persian Legation, London
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- Abstract: The file contains a letter from the Foreign Office to the India Office, communicating the desire of Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that facilities for safe passage should be extended to Mr Fazlollah Nabil, Counsellor of the Persian Legation in London, as he travels to Tehran with Legation documents. The file also contains a copy of a letter sent from the India Office to the Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department, requesting that the local authorities be instructed to extend such facilities.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 5; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
4. Political No. 88 of 1873, Suggesting that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Should be Moved to Obtain from the Egyptian Government an Explanation as to Monsieur Munzinger’s Ill-treatment of Walkayatee Biru, Employed to Convey a Letter and Gifts from Queen Victoria to Prince Kassai of Tigre
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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 16 June 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department 15 July 1873, suggesting that the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs should be moved to obtain from the Egyptian Government an explanation as to Monsieur Munzinger’s ill-treatment of Walkayatee Biru, employed to convey a letter and gifts from Queen Victoria to Prince Kassai of Tigre.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 195, and terminates at f 196a, 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 two foliation anomalies: f 195a, and f 196a.
5. Persia Affairs
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- Abstract: This part of the volume consist of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 57 of 1850, dated 17 October 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-23 and are dated 10 January-2 October 1850. A note in red ink, dated 1 November 1906, states that all enclosures detailed in the abstract are missing.The missing correspondence concerned the refusal of Aga Khan Mehlatee [Ḥusaynī Maḥallātī, Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥasan, Āqā Khān I] to return to Persia [Iran] under the conditions stated in a letter from Lord Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the arrangements for the payment of his pension by the British.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)
6. Aden Affairs
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- Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 109 of 1846, dated 30 September 1846. The enclosures are dated 25 August-25 September 1846.The papers relate to the visit of four ‘chiefs’ of Johanna [Anjouan, also known as Ndzuwani or Nzwani] lately arrived at Aden with twelve followers, on the ship Louisa Munro, including: their requests to Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Political Agent, Aden, for funds and assistance to facilitate their pilgrimage to Mecca; their appeal to the British Foreign Secretary regarding the French occupation of the island of Mayotta [Mayotte] (ff 377-379); and their departure for Mocha on 4 September.The correspondents are Haines and the Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay. Also included are minutes of the Governor and President and members in Council, Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (13 folios)
7. File 897/1912 Pt 4 ‘Persan Gulf: British post offices’
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- Abstract: The volume comprises copies of correspondence, agreements, notes and other papers relating to the closure of British Indian post offices in Persia, and the transfer of postal services from British Indian to Persian administration. The specific focus of the volume’s contents is a conference, taking place in Bushire and convened for November 1922 (eventually taking place 5-9 December 1922), between Persian, Indian and Iraqi delegates, to finalise the arrangements for the transfer of the British Indian postal services in Persia to Persian administration. The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Minister at the British Legation in Tehran (Sir Percy Lyham Loraine); India Office staff (David Taylor Monteath; Henry William Garrett; John Percival Gibson; Leonard Day Wakely); Foreign Office officials (primarily Lancelot Oliphant); the Government of India’s delegate at the Bushire conference (Major Alfred Angelo); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Prescott Trevor).The volume includes:arrangements for the Bushire conference, including a list of Persian delegates (ff 199-203), which included the outgoing Director of the Persian Post, Camille Molitor;papers, notes and correspondence relating to the raising by Persian delegates at the Bushire conference, of the transfer to Persian authorities of the British post office in Bahrain, in reference to Persia’s historic claims to Bahrain, and British refusal to entering into negotiation on the matter (ff 194-196);a copy of the proceedings of the Bushire conference (ff 98-125), as well as a printed copy of the report of the Bushire conference, prepared by Major Angelo, which includes the conference’s procès verbal, and copies of the agreements relating both to the closure of foreign post offices in Persia, and to the exchange of money orders between Persia and British India (ff 158-172);concerns amongst senior Government officials, including the Viceroy, over the wording of the agreement, and in particular the reference made to Persia’s claim to Bahrain in the procès verbal, resulting in a refusal by Government to ratify the agreement before amendments are made (ff 155-156, f 149);correspondence and telegrams relating to the closure of British Indian post offices in Persia, which took place in early April 1923 (f 46, f 63), and reports of problems encountered in the transfer to the Persian authorities of postal and financial services, particularly relating to embargoes placed on the transfer/export of Indian rupees (ff 57-62);correspondence from July 1923 onwards, relating to various ratifications of the Bushire postal agreement, by the Union Postale Universelle (International Postal Union) (ff 14-21), the Iraq Government (f 13), and the League of Nations (ff 8-11).Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a 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 235; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.