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File 4535/1928 Pt 7 ‘Persia. Telegraphs’ [‎13r] (30/824)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (408 folios). It was created in 21 Nov 1930-4 Jun 1931. 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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fro. 206
Ai^ht
? t .
; j,' British Legation,
Tehran",
May Jirid, 19SI,
Sir,
I have the iionour to infora you ijp, frewton, the
last Director of the ersian section of the ln&o»>friropeaa
Telegraph Departnent left Tehran for ’ ngland on ^pril £4th,
a, i&r* frewton's departure ata’ks the end of an
institution v^hioh hfug been of great value to the Persian
Government as well as to the rersiun and foreign communities
in Persia for close on thi'ee quarters of a century,
S. The services which the Dep rtment h* s rendered to
British prestige in Persia are incalculable and beyond praise
and at no time in its history were its labours more precious
than in the days of the 'mr when both its Kuropera and Persicn
employees gave proofs of loyalty .• nd devolion to duty, often
in dangerous conditions, which in that period of general
stress did not always receive the recognition which they
raorited,
4. 1 am happy to say that ir. Bewton maintained the
most friendly relations with the Persian ainieter of Pests
and Telegraphs up to the last moment and both he and his
staff gave all the assistance possible to enable the
ministry of Posts and .telegraphs to t&fce over the former
Indo- uropean Telegraph Department lines with the least
possible difficulty or oonfusi on,
5. I aw ssendlng a copy of this despatch to the
Foreign
Konourable
■rthur Henderson, ;,p,,
The foreign Office,

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Content

The volume contains papers, mostly 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. minute papers, regarding the withdrawal from Persia [Iran] of the Indo-European Telegraph Company and the Indo-European Telegraph Department (IETD).

It includes papers relating to the following:

The volume also includes some papers relating to the intention of the Indo-European Telegraph Company to withdraw from the Soviet Union on 1 March 1931.

The main correspondents are as follows: the Foreign Office; HM Minister, Tehran (Sir Robert Clive), and HM Chargé d’Affaires, Tehran (Raymond Cecil Parr); the Indo-European Telegraph Company Limited; the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; and Imperial and International Communications Limited.

The volume includes some copies of documents in French, including correspondence between Sir Robert Clive and the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs.

The file 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.

Extent and format
1 volume (408 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

The subject 4535 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Persia: telegraphs) consists of nine files (seven volumes and two physical files), IOR/L/PS/10/1266-1274. The files are divided into seventeen parts, with parts 1 and 3 comprising one volume, part 2 comprising the second volume, part 5 comprising the third file, part 7 comprising the third and fourth volumes, parts 8 and 11 comprising the fifth volume, parts 13 to 15 comprising the sixth volume, part 16 comprising the seventh file, and parts 10 and 17 comprising the eighth volume.

A location list on folio 5 of IOR/L/PS/10/1271 and IOR/L/PS/10/1272 states that part 4 is Coll 30/75 (IOR/L/PS/12/3792), part 6 is Coll 29/68 (IOR/L/PS/12/3644), part 9 is Coll 30/17 (IOR/L/PS/12/3727), and part 12 is P 4480/1923 Pt 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/1099).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 410; 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.

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English and French in Latin script
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