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Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia [91r] (183/306)
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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the protection of our steadily expanding trade interests
calls for c&raost consideration. Trade is timid md it
is still easy for the expert to trace the results of
the shock which our trade received ©wing to the looting
of the ftu&hici caravan outside Nob.
in the hope of arriving at a settlement of the
claims, Mouladad khan, Shalig&ssi of the hh&rat
State &nd ii4rainistrator of hharan during the youag chiefc*
minority* was despatched in August 11)12, to Mashkel. Mis
mission proved a failure but owing to no fault or want
of tact or energy on his part. This year, again, every
possible expedient was brought into play to arrive at
an amicable settlement of these eases. Jahiad and the
heads of his tribe were induced to corn© down to
AMUksotag where it w:ts arranged that the discussion was
to bo but before the mooting could take place, in AugVf
the i)amaiii raided 11 caaiels belonging to the J^kiB and
mado off into the hills. J&hind hits excused himself for
withdrawing on the ground that he had iofomation that
he was to have been arrested but while it is just
possible that some mischief maker may have told him so,
yet it seems more likely that he was merely temporising
until the Oamani date harvest had been gathered in and
that he realiaed that hia tribe had little to gain by
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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
- 70Ar, 70Av, 74r:97v, 132r:133v
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence