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File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’ [49r] (104/434)
The record is made up of 1 volume (212 folios). It was created in 8 Dec 1902-23 Feb 1911. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the 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. .
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C o nfi da nt i al •
Prom
A
Ho.
The Secretary to the CJoveminent of India
in the Foreign Department,
To
Sir Ct* H. Bare lay, C. * G., C * ■/»0 * ?
Hie Britannic Majesty 1 e Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary.at the Court of
Persia , Tehran.
Dated Viceroy's Camp, the Sth October 1909.
dated July 12th 1909^regarding the proposed arrangement*
for the Cuetome treatment of postal parcels arriving at
the Britieh-Indian poet-officse in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
.
x am directed to state in reply than the Govern
ment of India approve the terms of the definitive draft
forwarded with your latter, and desire that the agreement
may now he concluded by an exchange of Motes with the
Minister for Foreign Affaire, as suggested in your letter
time for the transmission of full instructions to British
Indian post-offices in Persia, the Government of India
would suggest the 1st of February 1910 as a suitable date
from which effect should be given to the arrangement
Sir
I urn directed to refer to your letter Ho. 11,
Ho. 24, dated the 2nd November 1908. In order to allow
now
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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials, about their negotiations in the lead up to the Parcel Post Agreement of 1910 with Persia. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and the British Chargé d'Affaires at Tehran. They discuss cooperative arrangements for the examination by Persian Customs officials of postal parcels arriving from India and elsewhere, at British Indian Post Offices in Bushire and other towns along the Persian Coast of the Gulf. Included in the volume are copies of the following documents written in French: the Parcel Post Agreement between Great Britain and Persia of 1910 and Annex of 1911, the Parcel Post Agreement between Austro-Hungary and Turkey of 1870, and several letters by senior Persian Customs officials at Bushire and Tehran.
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- 1 volume (212 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 1311 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : post offices: Parcel Post Convention) consists of one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the leading flyleaf with 1 and terminates at the ending flyleaf with 212; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/78
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- File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:3v, 5r:9v, 11r:16v, 21r:25v, 34r:43v, 46r:52v, 58r:59v, 60v:64v, 65ar:65av, 65r:111v, 114r:137v, 140r:161v, 171r:174v, 175v:180v, 183r:186v, 189r:191r, 193v:202v, 203v:212v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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