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‘Seistan’ [‎12r] (23/98)

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The record is made up of 1 file (49 folios). It was created in 25 Oct 1900-Dec 1901. It was written in English. 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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No, 128, dated Nasratabad, the 10th September 1900.
F rom —Major G. Chenevix-Trench, Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul for Seistan,
To-—The Manager, North-West Soap Company, Meerut.
As you are aware there exists a large demand in Persia for candles.
It is hoped that the new Nushki route to Persia^ Quetta will be the easiest
ingress into Persia for all imports.
The exact cost of articles brought by this route is necessary to know. The
large traders of this country now desire me to obtain quotations and samples of
candles from you.
I shall be obliged, therefore, if you will send me neatly packed in boxes of tin
or wood samples of your candles 4s., 6 s. and 8s. of every quality. Attached to each
sample there should be a strong label with the following information written in
English and Persian
1 st .—Name or description of sample.
2 nd .'—Lowest cost per gross, box or maund landed packed for camel
transport at Quetta.
3 rd .—Name and address of person or manufacturer willing to supply the
articles and samples.
—Name of bankers to whom drafts should be made payable at the
time of ordering.
An early compliance is requested.
No, 129, dated Seistan via Quetta, the 10th September 1900.
From— -Major G. CHENEVix-TRENCH,Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul for Seistan,
Quetta (not Pers a),
To—The Bengal Chamber of Commerce.
Independently of your letter No. 794 of 1900, I have already addressed a
letter to you on the subject of the tea trade with Persia, and have asked you for
samples of green and black tea, the samples being separately labelled, with price
and description of tea, etc., on each label. From my position here in Seistan I
cannot, l fear, give you full information about the various sorts of tea now drunk
by the Persians. The chief point in the tea trade in which I am, for the sake of
the Indian grower, at present interested, is the route which will be most profitable
for the introduction of the tea at present consumed in Persia.
Much of this tea now finds its way to Tehran, Meshed and the north of
Persia via Batoum, and much by Bushire and Bunder Abbas. It is hoped that
the new route to Persia by Quetta and Nushki will be found the easiest, safest
and cheapest route for all places in Central Eastern Persia, and even in Northern
Persia; whether this is so or not entirely depends on the price which tea can
be landed, say in Seistan.
When I receive from you samples of tea with price duly marked as delivered
at Quetta, I can calculate from here the cost of placing that tea on any market
in Persia, when it will easily be seen whether the Nushki route is the best for
the import of tea, as compared with other routes. This information will be a
matter of very great importance, as from these figures together with other simi
lar figures the paying possibilities of a railway from Quetta to Seistan can
easily be calculated.
Later on I leave Seistan for Meshed, and from there I shall, after having
received samples of tea, etc., be in a better position to give you information about
the tea taste in Persia.
Provided samples are sent to Persia of tea, prices quoted and addresses
given of agents selling at prices quoted, there is no lack of Persian merchants
who will order. By their orders the tea taste of Persia can be gauged.

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The file contains papers mainly concerning Persia [Iran], largely relating to the province of Seistan [Sistan].

The file includes:

  • Printed copies of diaries of HM Consul for Seistan (Major George Chenevix-Trench) from 16 September 1900 to 8 February 1901 (not complete)
  • Printed copies of the Camp Diary of the Agent to the Governor-General of India and HM Consul-General for Khorassan and Seistan (Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Martindale Temple), for the periods 1 to 6 November 1900, and 6 November to 5 December 1900
  • A printed copy of the Camp Diary of Captain Robert Arthur Edward Benn, HM Vice-Consul for Seistan and Kain, for the period 17 January 1901 to 5 February 1901, forwarded through the Agent to the Governor General in Baluchistan (Charles Edward Yate)
  • A printed copy of a letter from Chenevix-Trench to the Deputy Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department (Captain Hugh Daly), enclosing copies of letters addressed to various trading centres and manufacturers in India, relating to the new trade route via Quetta to Persia through Nushki and Seistan
  • A letter to George Nathaniel Curzon, Viceroy of India, from the Earl of Ronaldshay (Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, later the second Marquess of Zetland), regarding Ronaldshay’s journey from Quetta to Nasratabad in Seistan
  • A newspaper cutting entitled ‘The Province of Seistan’ from the Times of India , dated 7 February 1901.

The file also includes a printed copy of a memorandum by Clive Bigham on the Upper Valley of the Yang-tsze Kiang [Yangtze] and the provinces immediately beyond its northern watershed, in China.

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1 file (49 folios)
Arrangement

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

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 49; 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.

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