Abstract: The file consists of correspondence regarding the gift of a set of meteorological instruments to the Iranian Government from the Government of India.Correspondents include: the Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department; and the Government of India, Department of Communications.The file includes a divider which gives a list 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 6; 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 item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secreatry of State for India, dated 2 October 1873 and received by the India Office Secret Department on 27 October 1873, forwarding copies of correspondence relating to the application by the Sultan of Lahej for payment to him of the gift of $2,500, authorised by the Political Resident in Aden. The despatch is in continuation of Political No. 168 dated 17 October 1871.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 27, and terminates at f 35, 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 three foliation anomalies: f 27a, f 31a, and f 34a.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 62 of 1840.The enclosures are dated 10-20 August 1840. They consist of correspondence relating to the gift of four horses to the Queen of the United Kingdom from the Imam of Muscat in connection with the ratification of the Commercial Treaty signed in 1839. The horses were conveyed from Muscat to Bombay [Mumbai] on Honourable Company Ship
Cleopatraand thence to England. They were accompanied to Bombay by the Imam of Muscat’s agent, Aga Mahomed Rahim Shirazee [Āghā Muḥammad Raḥīm Shīrāzī].Correspondents include: the Superintendent of the Indian Navy; the Secretary to the Government of India; the Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Imam of Muscat.Physical description: 1 item (9 folios)
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 97 of 1847, dated 15 November 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-8 and are dated 2 to 15 November 1847.The enclosures concern the battle axe of the Emperor Nadir Shah [Nādir Shāh, Shāh of Persia or Iran] selected from the ‘Sind Prize Property’ to be forwarded to England to be ‘placed at the disposal’ of Queen Victoria, including the estimated value of the battle axe.The enclosures consist of minutes of the Government of Bombay, and correspondence between the following: the Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet; the Sind [Sindh] Prize Agents; and the Sub-Treasurer, Bombay.Physical description: 1 item (8 folios)
Abstract: Firman [order] from the Shah of Persia [Iran], Fath Ali Shah Qajar, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The firman expresses the Shah’s gratitude and amity to the Court of Directors for the provision of a present of a large number of China porcelain pieces to the Shah.The firman was enclosed, alongside an English translation (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/138), in HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley’s letter to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and the Court of Directors of the East India Company of 15 July 1813 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/137), which was received on 11 January 1814.Physical description: The folio comprises a large sheet that has been folded.
Abstract: The file concerns the making of a documentary film by the Strand Film Company, London, concerning the Imperial Airways route between the United Kingdom and Australia, which involved filming at Sharjah.The papers include: telegrams dated 1936 giving permission for the filming from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Government of India, provided no aerial photographs were made of prohibited areas, such as mosques, and military bases; a letter from Imperial Airways to the India Office dated 3 November 1936 describing the proposals for the filming at Sharjah (folio 12); and correspondence dated 1937 concerning the gift of three silver watches from Imperial Airways to the Shaikh of Sharjah, in gratitude for his providing facilities for the making of the film.The file includes a divider, which gives a list 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 17; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 10A
Abstract: The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the gift of 100,000 rounds of ammunition from the British Government to Shaikh Sir Hamad bin Isa al Khalifah, Ruler of Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file).The main correspondents are as follows: the India Office; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Government of India External Affairs Department; the Government of India Defence Department; the Ministry of Supply; the Treasury; the Political Agent, Bahrain; and Shaikh Sir Hamad bin Isa al Khalifah.The file includes a divider, which gives a list 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 26; 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. The file has one foliation anomaly, f 10a.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the protocol around granting members of the Royal Air Force on service in the Persian Gulf the authority to give small presents to local notables (usually referred to as notabilities in the file) as gestures of respect or in return for services provided. Aside from the specific arrangements needed for such an eventuality, the correspondence also discusses the broader political context of such a gift.The correspondence is between officials at the India Office, the Political Residency in Bushire, the Air Ministry, the Royal Air Force in Iraq, the Foreign Office and the Treasury.The file includes a divider, which gives a list 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 60; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: A translation of a letter from Mahomed Allee Khan [Muhammad ‘Ali Khān], Persian [Iranian] envoy in Russia, to Abbas Meerza [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince of Persia], undated.The author reports his reception in St Petersburgh [Saint Petersburg] and Sarskoe Selo [Tsarskoye Selo] and meeting with the Emperor [Tsar Alexander I] to whom he presented a gift of horses. The author also reports meetings with Count Karl Nesselrode, Foreign Minister of Russia, at which he discussed the complaints of the Russian veterinary surgeon Colonel Kersing and the exile of Muslims to Siberia, and meetings with the Empress and Empress Mother.The translation was enclosed in the letter of Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 14 July 1824 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/186).Physical description: The letter was perforated in an attempt to stop the spread of disease.
Abstract: This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and minutes. It mainly covers conversations between British officials regarding the process of sending gifts to the Sheikh of Mohammerah [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir al-Ka‘bī of Mohammerah, now known as Khorramshahr, also written in this volume as Mohammera and Mahomerah].Related matters of discussion include the following: the Sheikh of Mohammerah and his role in Mesopotamia [Iraq] in recent years, as well as his relationship with British officers; a gift of recognition to the Sheikh of Mohammerah for supporting the British during the war [First World War]; an evaluation of the gift, which consists of a vessel and guns; the procedure of presenting the gift to the Sheikh; the valuation and cost of the supplies (of rifles and ammunition); payment; departure and arrival; disagreement among British officials (between the Government of India and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf) on the quantity of supplies; a related argument regarding Persia [Iran] becoming a signatory to the Arms Traffic Convention; information regarding the Sheikh of Mohammerah’s investment in a British war loan; conversations about the suspicions of a plot by the Persian Government with the Bakhitiari [Bakhtiyārī] tribe.In addition, the volume includes: ‘Memorandum on British Commitments (during the war) to the Gulf Chief’ (ff 175-181); a disposal and liquidation commission: a statement of guns, fittings and ammunition issued by the General Officer Commanding, Mesopotamia, to the Sheikh of Mohammerah (ff 92-93); a list of stores requirements (f 62).The correspondence in the volume is mostly internal correspondence between British officials of different departments, along with some correspondence with French Government officials. The principal correspondents are: Civil Commissioner in Mesopotamia; Political Officer, Baghdad; War Office; Ministry of Munitions of War; Disposal and Liquidation Commission; Inland Water Transport, Basrah [Basra]; and Army Council.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 223; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Major George Willock, Acting Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Tabriz and dated 6 August 1822.The letter reports that Mr Edward James Matthews has successfully delivered gifts from the Court of Directors to the Shah, who in return has sent a portrait and a letter of thanks (IOR/L/PS/9/69/115). It also praises Matthews’s conduct during his assignment.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 17 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in camp at Ardebil [Ardabil], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 17 August 1826. Willock reports the gift of a diamond ring made by the Russian envoy to Persia, Prince Minchikoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov], to the British surgeon Dr John Cormick, as an expression of gratitude for his attendance on the members of the Russian diplomatic mission at Tabriz.This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 20 August 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/109).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)