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File 3816/1916 'Persia. As to allowing English ladies to proceed to Persia' [‎23r] (54/553)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (269 folios). It was created in 16 Sep 1916-10 Oct 1921. 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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CHURCH
MISSIONS
TO
JEWS.
P. 4870.
Telegrams :
Christianity. Holb. London.
Telephone:
W~
Holborn 354.
sbq
FOUNDED 0809.
-up
The London Society for Promoting Christianity
amongst the Jews.
PATRON: HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
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Secretary:
REV. C. H. GILL, M.A.
Hofiie Secretary:
REV. A. J. CULWICK. M.A.
16, Lincoln’s Inn Fields,
LONDON, W.G. 2.
14th January 9 1920*
Sir,
The above Society has a large Mission with Schools at
Isfahan in Persia, and the Head of the Mission is the Hev* J*X*»
Garland, a British subject and a clergyman of the Church of
England* Mr. Garland has been in Persia since 1913, and in
addition to his ordinary duties, has had most strenuous and
difficult times during the late famine, and is therefore now 1 $n
urgent need of furlough.
The Committee are moat anxious that the Rev. C.W. St.
Clair Tiadall, who was helping Mr. Garland until the outbreak
of war, should return to his station immediately. Mr. TIsdaH
is taking out in his party, his wife, three children and a Head
Teacher for the Schools, a Miss A.I. Crocker, all British siihjectB.
If their passages are delayed longer than next month dt
will be impossible for the women and children to travel owing
to the heat, and as the Committee understand that passages to
India and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. are not nearly so difficult as they
rhe Under Secretary of State for India,
Political Department,
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. .
London S.l* 1*

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The volume contains correspondence, and 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. Political and Secret Department papers, mainly relating to various individuals seeking permission to travel to Persia [Iran] from England. These individuals are largely the wives of British officials and employees in Persia wishing to join their husbands. They include: Myrtle Farran, the wife of an Indian Army officer serving in Persia; M D Merrill, the wife of a Captain in the South Persia Rifles; and Harriet Neilson, the wife of the Works Manager of the refineries in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The volume also includes correspondence relating to permission to travel to Persia for male and female missionaries of the Church Missionary Society, including Emily Skirrow, and The London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews.

The main correspondents are the following: 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 Foreign Office; HM Minister at Tehran; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India; 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. ; members of the Church Missionary Society; the War Office; and the various individuals seeking permission to travel to Persia.

The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 volume (269 folios)
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The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

The subject 3816 (Persia. As to allowing English ladies to proceed to Persia) consists of one volume, IOR/L/PS/10/625.

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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 269; 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.

The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.

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