Coll 28/26 ‘Relations with H.M.G. Importation of Stores for I.E.T.D. Staff’

Content

Correspondence relating to food and supply shortages suffered by staff of the Indo-European Telegraph Department manning telegraph stations along the Persian coast of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The file’s principal correspondents include the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. (John Gilbert Laithwaite), Imperial and International Communications Limited (J O Stevens Perry), the British Legation at Tehran (Charles Dodd, Lacy Baggallay, Reginald Hervey Hoare), and the Foreign Office (Charles William Baxter, George William Rendel). The shortages were a result of the introduction by the Persian Government of a Trade Monopoly Law, banning the import of goods into Persia without goods of equivalent value being exported in the opposite direction. The correspondence focuses on the wording of the Telegraphs Agreement under negotiation between the British and Persian Governments, classification of official stores, and the issue of import licenses for supplies. The file includes lists of the private stores (ff 119-122) and official stores (ff 109-112) for staff of Imperial and International Communications Limited, based at telegraph stations in Bushire, Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], Jask, and Charbar [Chabahar].

Extent and format

1 file (136 folios)

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 138; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/12/3423

Former external reference(s)

Coll 28/26

History of this record

Date(s)

28 May 1931-13 May 1932 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

ImportsFood supplyIndo-European Telegraph LineBilateral agreementsFood shortagesOffice supplies

Places

PersiaBushireHenjamJaskCharbar

People & organisations

Government of Iran, Pahlavi dynastyBritish Legation, TehranForeign OfficeIndo-European Telegraph DepartmentCable and Wireless Ltd

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Coll 28/26 ‘Relations with H.M.G. Importation of Stores for I.E.T.D. Staff’, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3423, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0003d0> [accessed 25 April 2024]

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