Coll 35/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: postal administration' [29r] (57/411)
The record is made up of 1 file (204 folios). It was created in 26 Jun 1923-13 Mar 1939. 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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P.3273/29.
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.
,
Whitehall,
S.W.l.
29th May 1929,
Sir,
I am directed hy the Secretary of State for India in
Council to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the
7th May, No.Y.432/32/650, regarding the transmission of
official correspondence between the Government of India and
and
His Majesty’s Consular officers in Persia/to refer to the
telegram from the Government of India, No.16013 of the 6th
May, copy of which is enclosed herewith, in which the
Government of India have themselves proposed the conclusion
of a reciprocal agreement with the Persian Government with
a view to securing the establishment of the arrangements
contemplated in the telegram dated the 10th March from
the Consul-General, Meshed, repeated to Tehran No.21, a copy
of which will be found at the end of the correspondence
communicated with this Office letter No.P.2544/29 of the
5th April* The Secretary of State for India will be glad if
the Secretary of State for yorei@i Affairs will instruct
His Majesty' 1 s Minister at Tehran to propose to the
Persian Government, on behalf of the Government of India,
the conclusion of an agreement, on the lines of the draft
agreement enclosed in your letter, providing for the
transmission without customs examination of consular
correspondence between the Government of India and His
Majesty’s Consuls in Persia on the one hand and the Persian
Government and Persian Consuls in India on the other*
A copy of a telegram sent to the Government of
India on the subject is enclosed*
I am, &c.,
P. J. Patrick*
The Under Secretary of State
Foreign Office,
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The file concerns the postal service in Persia and in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The file contains:
- Review of postal service in Persia [Iran] and in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , with complaints of inefficiencies since their transfer under Persian administration, 1923
- Bushire - Shiraz mail service, 1923
- Proposed appointment of a Persian Director-General of Posts in Persia, whilst the Foreign Office was suggesting a Belgian to be appointed instead, 1924
- Appointment of Prince Moazed-ed-Dowleh as Director General of Posts, 1924
- Refusal of Persian Government to pay claims for loss of registered postal parcels, 1924
- Transfer of the Indian Post Office of exchange from Duzdap [Zahedan] to Mirjawa [Mirjaveh], 1925
- Transmission of parcels between Europe and Persia via Iraq, 1925
- Additional parcel post service via Lebanon, Syria and Iraq to Tehran, 1926
- Relations between Duzdap Railway authorities and Persian Customs administration, 1926
- Proposal for establishing insured parcel service between Persia and India via Duzdap, 1928
- Indian Exchange Post Office at Mirjawa, 1932; proposed closure of, 1939.
The file is composed of correspondence between: HM Legation at Tehran; HM Consulate for Sistan and Kain; the Foreign Office; 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 Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; the Persian Ministry for Foreign Affairs; the Secretary of State for India; Anglo-Persian Oil Company; the Superintendent of Post Offices for Baluchistan; and the General Post Office.
There are letters in French in the file, from the Universal Postal Union, from the Foreign Office to the Persian Government, and from the Director-General of the Persian Postal Service.
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- 1 file (204 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 205; 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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- Coll 35/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: postal administration'
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- front, front-i, 2r:14v, 16r:20v, 22r:24v, 27r:43v, 45v:136v, 138r:186v, 190r:205v, back
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