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Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’ [440r] (890/1174)
The record is made up of 1 volume (583 folios). It was created in 10 Mar 1930-1 Feb 1937. It was written in English, French and Persian. 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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Enclo. in Foreign Office covering letter, dated 16th June 1931. V -?~r~
{Received on C>lh July 1931, with Political Secretary^ letter No. 25 dated
18th June 1931.)
Despatch fbom II. M.’s Minister, Tehran, to the Foreign Office London
DATED THE 16th May 1931.
Sir R. Clive to Mr. A. Henderson.—{Received May 16.)
(No. 223. Confidential.)
His Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Scretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith copy of a memorandum by the Commercial Secretary, dated the oth
May, 1931, on the subject of a journey to Mazanderan.
Tehran, May 6, 1931.
Enclosure No. 1.
Memorandum by Mr. Linyeman on his journey to Mazanderan. [See Enclosure
of Serial No. (22)].
(41)
(Received on 51k July 193.1, with Political Secretary's letter No. 25, dated
18th June 1931.)
Memo, from H. M.’s Minister, Tehran, to the Foreign Office, London,
No. M. 283, dated the 3rd June 1931.
His Majesty’s Representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign zYffairs and has the honour to transmit
herewith, copies of the documents mentioned in the subjoined Schedule, on the
subject of language used in official communications to Persian authorities.
Reference : —Tehran despatch No. 74 of 19th Februarv 1931 [Serial
No. (14)].
From Bushire to His Majesty’s Minister, No. 451830 of 22nd April, 1931.
From His Majesty’s Minister to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs,
dated 3rd June, 1931.
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Enclosure 1 to Serial No. (41).
Letter from H. M/s Consul General, Bushire, to H. M/s Minister, Tehran.
No. 451830 of 1931, dated the 22nd April 1931.
With reference to the correspondence ending with my despatch No. 13J297,
dated the 11th February 1931 [Enclo. of Serial No. (14)], regarding communi
cations with Persian officials in English and Persian, I have the honour to for
ward herewith for your information a copy of a letter addressed to me by the
Assistant Governor of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Ports, from which you will see that he
reiterates the demand that I should sign the Persian text of letters addressed
to him.
2. The Assistant Governor showed my Interpreter a copy of the letter
addressed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the Ministry of the Interior,
at the conclusion of which i< was stated that if the Consuls send letters addressed
to the Assistant Governor without first having signed the Persian text, lie should
send them back. The Assistant Governor stated that out of politeness he did
not add the last sentence of the letter to me.
I would therefore request that in view of the instructions contained in
Foreign
under
may a 0 _ ^ „
be asked to cancel the instructions sent to the local authorities at Bushire.
Sub enclosure of Enclosure 1 to Serial No. advq.
Letter from the Assistant Governor of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
Ports and
Islands and Das tin and Dashtistan, to the Acting British Consul-Gen
eral, in Bushire, No. 395, dated the 24th Farvardin, 1310 (14th April
1931).
In reply to your letter No. 31, regarding the signing of the Persian text of
letters, 1 have the honour to inform you the Ministry for Foreign Affairs re
cently wrote to the Ministry of Interior to the effect that communications from
all foreign Consuls in Persia are written in the language of the country and that
1 heir texts also are signed by them.
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INDIA FOKE'GN \
Letter No 354 I
Dated 2 3 OCT. 1931
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Printed correspondence from the Government of India’s Foreign and Political Department (later referred to as the External Affairs Department) relating to Persia [Iran]. The original correspondence was exchanged between British representatives in Persia (chiefly the British Legation in Tehran), the Foreign Office, and 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. . The correspondence concerns: the announcement by the Persian Government of laws, decrees, regulations, budgets, and other governmental communiqués, the texts of which were usually published in Persian newspapers (including Le Journal de Tehran , Shafaq-e-Surkh , Le Messenger de Teheran and Iran ); reports on provincial affairs in Persia, chiefly in the form of reports submitted by British Consuls; Persia’s foreign relations, particularly those with Soviet Russia [Soviet Union, USSR]; correspondence dated 1929 and 1930 reporting on events in northern Persia (Azerbaijan and Khorasan) where large numbers of Russian refugees settled in the wake of the October Revolution; copies of diplomatic exchanges between the British Legation in Tehran and the Persian Government, the latter represented by figures including the Persian Prime Minister Mirza Mohamed Ali Khan Feroughi, the Minister of the Court of Iran Abdolhossein Teymourtash, and Hassan Ali Ghaffari of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the activities of the Shah, with a particular focus on his modernisation policies that were implemented across Persia during the 1930s.
A large number of items in the file are in French. These include the texts of Persian Government laws, Persian newspaper articles, and correspondence from Persian politicians. The file also includes a memorandum on the Persian renderings of ‘imperial’ that contains Persian text (ff 305-306).
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.
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- 1 volume (583 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 579; 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, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Title
- Coll 28/39 ‘Persia: Printed Correspondence 1929-1936’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:1v, 3r:7v, 8v:16v, 18r, 19r:20r, 28v:38v, 39v, 40v, 44r, 45v:49r, 54r:54v, 55v:56r, 57r, 65v:67v, 70r:78r, 81r:85v, 86v:94v, 95v:97r, 99r:101v, 102v:104r, 106r:107v, 109r:115r, 118v:119v, 120v, 123v:125v, 127r:128r, 129r:131r, 132v, 133v, 135r, 136r:137v, 150r, 151r:160v, 163v:164r, 170r:170v, 171v, 173r:174v, 176r, 178r, 183v:185r, 186v, 189r:190r, 192r:192v, 195v:205v, 207r, 208v:213v, 215r, 221v:223r, 224r:225r, 226r:226v, 228r:228v, 231v:232r, 234v:235v, 238r, 240r:243r, 246v, 254r:257r, 258v, 261v:264v, 265v, 266v:268r, 269v:274r, 275v:277v, 279r, 283r:283v, 284v:285v, 288r, 289v, 290v, 291v, 293r:294v, 296v:297r, 298r:300v, 302v:306v, 307v:308r, 310r:310v, 312r:322v, 326v, 327v:330v, 332r:332v, 333v, 335r:341v, 342v:344r, 345r:348r, 349v:357v, 360r, 361r:364v, 366v:371r, 373v:375r, 377v:378r, 380r:383v, 384v:387v, 389r:389v, 391r:394v, 396v, 398r:399v, 400v:403v, 405r, 406r:407r, 408r, 409r:410v, 415v:416v, 418v, 420r:421v, 422v, 424v, 425v:430r, 431r:432r, 434r:434v, 436r, 437r:444r, 447v:450r, 451v, 453r:460r, 461v:463r, 464v:472v, 473v:474v, 475v, 481r:483r, 484v:485r, 487v:506r, 508v:509v, 510v:511r, 512r:514r, 515v:525v, 526v, 527v, 529v:533r, 534v:544r, 545r:548v, 550v:556r, 558v:559v, 562v:579v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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