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Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia [‎90r] (181/306)

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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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Th« relations between the Farhad iialueh and our-
solvef!, hsive on the whole, been friendly up to the
/
present but the seeds of danger exist in the inter
tribal tension between the Damani and Keki*, tho out
come of the constant thefts of onmels which if not
checked will develop along various ramifications: in
the temptationr to loot which are provided by the
valuable trading caravans, which now pass, lo fre
quently, within easy striking distance of the S&rhad,
a temptation to which a cossaunity which has now
wholly abandoned itself to plunder must, in course of
time, yield: in the vulnerability to reprisals which
the Indo-European Telegraph line offers: and to the
truculence which has been induced by the perpetration
of a long seriee of raids into h&rraashir, i*eh bandaa
and the Kainat, for none of which the ^rhad balueh
have ever been called to account and which has re
cently shown itself in throats to raid into ^kran
and Kh&ran to enforce satisfaction for the arrests
of ItaaMUii who have been caught by the District
authorities of those places in the very* act of
lifting cattle. The position is one of considerable
complexity for the telegraph line must necessarily be
regarded as a permanent factor on this Frontier and

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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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English and French in Latin script
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