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Correspondence and Papers on Various Matters Relating to Persia [93r] (187/306)
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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is sometimes called, is a voieauo lying opposiie to
i>ainctak and mma iO miles beyond our frontier, which
rises to an elevation of over ik.,000 feet and
possesBes a temperate climate, good water, and ade
quate $e&t supplies. Guided by 15 year‘a experience
of baluoh idiosyncrasies I hold the conviction that
were this enterprise to be conducted on proper
lines it could bo arranged without opposition and
would be followed by the collapse of raiding into
Khurasan and, eventually, as we were able to stake
our influence felt, by the restoration of order in
;>&rhad* ihe force need not oe a large one for a
body of 200 men, with a telegraph line guard of
50 rifles posted host of uobat at Oeh&neh bagi, the
A
headquarters of the transfrontier section of the
^ e?x*A o f
Indo-European ^line, would suffice. It will naturally,
be objected that any such a »ovo postulates the
occupation of iersian territory. This is so but the
evacuation of bampur. the failure of the Persian
Government to control the bajaani in accordance with
the terns of the iorso-baluoh frontier agreement; the
interruptions to the indo-uiropcan Telegraph line which
although they have not been very serious at present.
and have hitherto been confined tp Persian limits,
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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)
- Arrangement
The file is arranged in chronological order, from the front to the rear.
- Physical characteristics
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