Abstract: The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the issue of diplomatic visas, including correspondence regarding visits to India by Russian diplomats in Kabul.It includes correspondence between the following: the India Office and the Foreign Office; the India Office and the Government of India External Affairs Department; and between HM Minister, Kabul, and the Government of India External Affairs Department.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 33; 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 visas for Indian pilgrims travelling to Iraq, including papers concerning the question of whether Indian pilgrims in possession of Pilgrim Passes should be admitted into Iraq without any visa.The main correspondents are as follows: HM Ambassador, Baghdad; the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Baghdad; and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department.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 41; 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 regarding visa fees to be charged to natives of Oman and Muscat, and of Koweit [Kuwait], for proceeding to British territory.The papers mostly consist of correspondence between the following: the India Office; the Foreign Office; HM Minister, Tehran (Robert Henry Clive); HM Consul General, Meshed (Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett); and the Government of India Foreign and Political Department.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 12; 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 mainly consists of correspondence relating to applications from various individuals for visas to visit Bahrein (Bahrain), and application forms for visas.The correspondence largely consists of internal India Office notes, and correspondence between the India Office and the following: HM Passport Office; the Acting Political Agent, Bahrain (Hugh Weightman); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the individuals applying for visas.The file includes three letters in German.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 main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 52; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 28-34; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.A previous foliation sequence on ff 12, 13 and 15, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The file contains correspondence mainly relating to visas for countries in the Persian Gulf for employees and wives of employees of oil companies, mostly the Kuwait Oil Company, Limited (for Kuwait), but also other oil companies including: the Iraq Petroleum Company, Limited (for Bahrain and Qatar); the Standard Oil Company (for Kuwait and Oman); the Bahrain Petroleum Company (for Bahrain); the Superior Oil Company (for Kuwait); and Petroleum Concessions Limited (for Bahrein and Qatar). It also includes correspondence concerning visas for Bahrain for employees of the British Overseas Airways Corporation.The correspondence is largely between the India Office (and the Commonwealth Relations Office after the abolition of the India Office in 1947) and the following: the (Foreign Office) Passport Control Department; the Kuwait Oil Company, Limited; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Iraq Petroleum Company, Limited; the Political Agent, Bahrain; and the Bahrein Petroleum Company, Limited.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 469; 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 correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf , regarding visas for travellers to Syria and the Lebanon from Kuwait.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 5; 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, mostly correspondence, relating to passports and visas for persons travelling to, and for natives of, certain British Protectorates and Arab states.It includes papers concerning the following: the procedure in connection with the issue of these travel documents; fees for visas; the issue of instructions to HM Consuls and Passport Control Officers regarding travel documents; the grant of visas for members of the United States mission at Koweit [Kuwait] for visits to Basra; and travel facilities for natives of the Persian Gulf states and for persons wishing to proceed to those states.The main correspondents include the following: the India Office; the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department; the British Residency and Consulate-General, Bushire; the Foreign Office; the British Consulate, Basra; the Colonial Office; the Government of Bombay, Political Department; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent, Bahrain; HM Consul, Basra; HM Ambassador, Baghdad; and the Treasury.The file also includes India Office minute papers, and three blank copies of Bahrain passports, in English and Arabic.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 inside back cover with 620; 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 correspondence relating to travel documents for persons travelling to, and for natives of, particular British Protectorates and Arab states.It includes correspondence concerning the following: the endorsement affixed by the Saudi Arabian authorities to the passports of persons leaving Saudi Arabia for Bahrein [Bahrain]; the issue of visas for Muscat by British authorities on behalf of the Muscat Government; the proposed issue of identity certificates for Iraqi nationals travelling to Koweit and Bahrain; the proposal that the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait] should, in future, be allowed to issue his own passports; the grant of Iraqi visas to Kowaitis; and visas for Arab Shaikhdoms in the Persian Gulf.The main correspondents include: HM Minister, Jeddah, and the British Legation, Jeddah; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Foreign Office; the India Office; the Secretary to the Government of India, External Affairs Department; HM Consul, Muscat; and the Commonwealth Relations Office.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 83; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence relating to the Iranian prince Salar-ed-Dowleh [Abulfath’ Mirza Salar-ed-Dowleh Qajar], the third son of the former Shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, who lived in exile in Alexandria, Egypt. The file contains: a British Passport Control Department memorandum dated 1935, stating that visas should not be granted to Salar-ed-Dowleh or to members of his family; a note on Salar-ed-Dowleh, written by Herbert Lacy Baggallay of the Foreign Office, detailing his involvement in revolts against the Persian monarchy, and his subsequent movements and actions; letters in French dated 1941 from Salar-ed-Dowleh, requesting assistance from the British Government to travel to India, Palestine, Jeddah, or South Africa.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 12; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Correspondence and other papers relating to oil exploration and the acquisition of oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (and to a lesser degree, Persia [Iran]) by oil companies. The companies involved are: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC); the Shell Transport Company (STC, also referred to as the Anglo-Saxon Oil Company), led by chief negotiator John Steven Cowans; the Standard Oil Company of New York (SOC). The correspondence covers: Cowans’s trip to Mesopotamia on behalf of STC; reports of SOC geologists to Mesopotamia; the British Government’s decision that all oil exploration and efforts at obtaining concessions in Mesopotamia should be stopped while the country remains under military administration; the retention of STC experts for oil exploration for military purposes; APOC exploration in the Pasht-i-Kuh region of Persia, and the company’s negotiations with the local Vali (or Wali), rather than the Persian Government; the refusal by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to authorise visas to British SOC representatives wishing to travel to Mesopotamia; suspicions amongst British Government officials that SOC were supporting and financing anti-British sentiment in Mesopotamia; the withdrawal of oil representatives and geologists in Mesopotamia from August 1920, in response to the social unrest and anti-British sentiment spreading across the country (the 1920 Iraqi revolt).The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, Arnold Talbot Wilson; Foreign Office officials; India Office officials.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 first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 292; 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 between ff 165-292, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence and copies of relevant documents regarding travel regulations in the Persian Gulf, particularly discussions regarding landing and visa rules for entry in to Bahrain.All of the correspondence in the file is between British officials, notably the British Consulate in Basra; the British Embassy in Baghdad; the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Political Residency in Bushire.The file contains a limited amount of correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the Residency in Sharjah; this correspondence is in Arabic. On folios 95-96, the file contains a memorandum regarding travel documents issued by the Residency Agent in Sharjah.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 325; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 6-320; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.Foliation errors: folio 81 is followed by folio 81a.
Abstract: This part contains copy correspondence sent to the India Office by the Foreign Office, relating to the following: applications for British visas to travel to Persia [Iran] made to the Military Control Officer at Stockholm by two Swedes, Carl Christian Rosencrantz and Johan Gustav Allan Sandberg, and the question of whether they were seeking to travel to Persia in order to take up appointments in the Persian Gendarmerie, or the Persian Police Administration; and the arrival in Stockholm, Sweden, of General Westdahl, Superintendent of the Persian Police, in order to engage three Swedish officials for the Persian Police.The correspondence is largely between the Foreign Office and the Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office, and between the Foreign Office and Patrick Ramsay, of the British Embassy, Stockholm.Physical description: 1 item (20 folios)