Abstract: The file contains a letter which was forwarded from the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under Secretary of State for India in January 1939. The forwarded letter is dated 14 December 1938 and was sent by Howard William Kennard, HM Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Poland, to the Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. The letter reports the appointment of a Polish Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, with residence at Tehran.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 4; 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 file contains correspondence relating to a proposed visit of Japanese diplomatic staff to Bahrain and Kuwait. The main correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the India Office. The main recipients are the Political Agents in Kuwait and Bahrain and the Secretary of State for India.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at inside back cover with 8; 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 contains papers relating to changes of Ministers heading the British Legation at Tehran, Persia [Iran]. It mainly consists of covering papers from the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State, India, enclosing copies of telegrams and letters from His Majesty’s Representative in Tehran to the Foreign Office. The telegrams mostly announce the arrival of the Ministers in Tehran and their assumption of charge of His Majesty’s Legation, and the letters mainly report on interviews with the Shah in which the new Ministers presented their credentials.It includes telegrams and letters from the following Ministers: Sir Percy Lorraine, Sir Robert Clive, Sir Reginald Hoare, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, and Sir Horace Seymour.Also included is a translated copy of a letter from Ali Quli Khan, Ansari, Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, to His Majesty’s Charge d’Affaires, 29 July 1926 (folio 32), expressing the ‘deep regrets’ of the Persian Government at the departure of Sir Percy Lorraine, and requesting that ‘the gratitude of the high officials of the Persian Government’ be conveyed to Lorraine for his ‘sincere feeling toward this country’ and his policy of ‘consolidating the amity’ between Britain and Persia.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 32; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains copies of correspondence sent to the India Office by the Colonial Office and the Foreign Office, mostly regarding the exchange of diplomatic representatives between Persia [Iran] and Iraq.It largely consists of copies of correspondence between the office of the High Commissioner for Iraq and the following: the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Baghdad; and Raymond Cecil Parr, British Legation, Tehran. The correspondence concerns the appointment of Mirza Taqi Khan Nawabi as Persian Minister at Baghdad, and of Taufiq Beg al Suwaidi [or Tewfik al Suwaidy] as Minister for Iraq at Tehran.It also includes correspondence between the British Legation, Tehran, and the Iraq Legation, Tehran, and between R W Rendel, Foreign Office, and Robert Clive, Tehran, regarding the transfer of files concerning outstanding claims of Iraqi camel men in connection with the alimentation crisis.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 27; 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 part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 29 of 1843, dated 30 April 1843. The enclosures are numbered 3-13 and are dated 8 February to 29 April 1843.The enclosures relate to the following:The state of affairs in the vicinity of Aden, which the Political Agent at Aden, Captain Stafford Bettesworth Haines, describes as ‘tranquil’The instructions received by Haines from the Secret Committee that Haines will afford Ali Ben Nasser [‘Alī bin Nāṣir], the Envoy to Queen Victoria from the Imaum [Imam] of Muscat, every attention and assistance he may require on his return to Zanzibar via EgyptThe murders of British subjects in the Goongoonta [Gungunta?] Pass in the territory of the Sultan of Tajoura [Tadjourah, also spelled Tedjoura in this item] in June 1841, including Haines’s conviction that the brother of the Sultan of Tedjoura is deeply implicated, and the Government of Bombay requesting the instructions of the Governor-General as to the measures to be adopted for ‘obtaining satisfaction’ from the Sultan of Tedjoura for the murdersThe conduct of the Governor of Macculla [Mukalla], Mahomed bin Abdool Hubeeb [Muḥammad bin ‘Abd al-Ḥabīb], towards his Vizier and the members of his late uncle’s family, whom he states had intrigued to take the port of Macculla from himThe sanctioning of the grant of remuneration to Mr Hatchatoor for the period he was employed on board the Honourable Company’s sloop
Cliveunder the orders of the Assistant Political Agent at AdenThe Commissary General, Bombay, Lieutenant-Colonel James Henderson Dunsterville, enclosing a statement of stock required for Aden (not included in this item), and seeking instructions as to whether the hay and grain applied for should now be forwarded to Aden, and the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, John Pollard Willoughby, requesting the Political Agent at Aden to report whether it is in his opinion any longer necessary for Government to incur the heavy expense of sending hay and grain from Bombay to Aden.The correspondence is mostly between the Secretary to the Government of Bombay and: the Political Agent at Aden; the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, James Thomason. There are also letters to the Governor and President in Council, Bombay, Sir George Arthur, from the Governor of Macculla and the Military Board, Bombay. In addition, there are enclosed letters: from Captain William Cornwallis Harris, on special duty in the Kingdom of Shoa [Shewa], to Haines; from the Commissary General, Bombay, to the Military Board; and between Haines and the Secret Committee.Physical description: 1 item (32 folios)
Abstract: The file contains correspondence between HM Ambassador to Iraq (Sir Kinahan Cornwallis), the Foreign Office, the Government of India External Affairs Department, and the India Office (Horace Algernon Fraser Rumbold), regarding the appointment of a new United States Minister to Iraq.The file includes a divider, which gives lists of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 8; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to HM Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, of 13 November 1810. The letter concerns an affair at Constantinople [Istanbul] involving the Persian Ambassador to France, Askar Khan [Askar Khan Afshar], and the Persian Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Meerza Ameen [Mirza Amin]. The letter reports the Persian government’s misgivings concerning the affair, and communicates the appointment of Aga Hossein [Agha Hussain] as responsible for the affairs of the Persian government in Constantinople, the removal of Meerza Ameen from his position as ambassador, and the prohibition of Georges Outrey, the French envoy who accompanied Askar Khan on his return from Paris, from entering Persian territory. The letter was enclosed in the secret letter of Jones of 13 November 1810, which was received on 11 March 1811.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, To HM Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, of 30 August 1810. The letter relates to the French Envoy, Georges Outrey, who was reported to be accompanying the Persian Ambassador to France Askar Khan [Askar Khan Afshar] on his return journey to Persia (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/72), and encloses documents from the Persian Government (not enclosed in this item) concerning the matter. The letter also contains details of British machinations concerning the conflict between Russia and Persia, and reports the surrender of the Dutch settlement of Amboyna [Ambon] to the British.The letter was enclosed in Jones’s Secret letter of 14 September 1810, which was received on 6 February 1811.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)