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Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia [47r] (93/306)
The record is made up of 1 file (148 folios). It was created in Jan 1912-Jan 1917. 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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paramount necessity is thek organisation of a reliable force,
and failing this the existing chaos will continue and grow
worse.
It is a queer mixture of things here: Swedish gendarmerie,
Belgian finance agent, British Cavalry Regiment impaled s.trai^i
from India with its prejudices, its polo, its Sikhs, and its
Tiwanas, etc, and ay weak-kneed, philosophical Governor Gen
eral surrounded by the usual crowd of harpies and robbers.
Why the regiment west ever sent here is a mystery to me . It
seems to have been one of those half measures which can by no
possibility do good, and must do a great deal of harm. From
the day I arrived here I recommended their withdrawal, and that
is now being arrangdd.
The next few years up here promise to be very interesting
In fact failing Lhasa I think I shov.ld prefer this dace to
any other!
So Tibet has declared herself independent. But can she
stand alone? Surely we must support her now. When one watches
Russians masterly tactics in Mongolia it makes one wild to see
k° w badly we have played our cards in Tibet.
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The file contains correspondence from a number of political officers, civil servants, writers, journalists, army officers, businessmen, and engineers.
Correspondents include: Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, former Governor of Bombay; Albert Houtum-Schindler, former employee of the Persian Government; Major Percy Zachariah Cox, British Consul General, Bushire; John Richard Preece, former British Consul, Isfahan; Ignatius Valentine Chirol, journalist, author, and historian; Lovat Fraser, author; Lord Thomas Henry Sanderson, former civil servant; Major William Frederick Travers O'Connor, British Consul, Shiraz; Charles A Brouard, Engineer; Captain Frank Cooke Webb Ware, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Chagai; Murray Robertson; Sayyad Mazhar-ul-Hussan, Indian civil servant; Sir Hugh Shakespear Barnes, Director of the Imperial Bank of Persia; Charles Staniforth, businessman and railway investor; Sir Charles Edward Yate, administrator and politician; Sir Frederic Arthur Hirtzel, 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. ; and John Ernest Buttery Hotson, administrator and naturalist.
The majority of the correspondence covers matters relating to Persia [Iran], including: various railway projects, including the Baghdad Railway and the proposed Trans-Persian Railway; British Policy in Persia; Russian, German, and Turkish activities in the region; the military campaign in Mesopotamia; the chaotic situation in Southern Persia; and Major Terence Humphrey Keyes' mission to the Mekran [Makran] region. The correspondence with Charles Yate (folios 134-139) discusses the effort to pass the Bird Plumage Prohibition Bill through Parliament.
Additionally, the papers include forwarded reports, memoranda, newspaper cuttings, etc., all relating to Persia and the wider region, often with requests for Lord Curzon's reviews and opinions.
The French language material consists of the letter from the engineer, Charles Brouard.
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- 1 file (148 folios)
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The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
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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 152; 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 file contains one foliation anomaly, f 70a.
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- Mss Eur F112/251
- Title
- Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia
- Pages
- 34r:48v, 53r:60v, 123r:131v
- Author
- O'Connor, William Frederick Travers
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