سياسي خارجي ٧٦٤٩/ ٤٩ "الوصول إلى مجلدات دليل لوريمر" [و‎‎٣] (٢١/٦)

(L 1)056/11/402)
FOREIGN
16 th
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Deer Sir Lionel Havorth 9
Matters relating to the lersien Gulf having
become e Foreign Office concern the Commonwealth
Relations Office have referred to me the request
which you Giade for permission to borrow certain
material for use in connexion with the preparation
of your book.
I am afraid we have no spare copies of (a) The
Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf or (b) your reports
as Resident of the Persian Gulf* but there would be no
objection to your consulting here the single copies
in our possession. These documents are, however,
still regarded as being confidential - as recently
as 19^6 the Government of India asked that Lorimer
should remain classified as "secret^ - and in the
circumstances access tc them can only be granted under
our usual conditions that, if use is made of them f the
manuscript of the book must first be submitted to us
for approval prior to publication.
Lb regards your Consular Reports (1906) it is
assumed that you have in mind those which were
published at the time. In this event I think there
would be no difficulty in sending you copies.
Yours truly.
Lieutenant Colonel
Sir Lionel Haworth,
Osbourne House,
Steyning.
^yx (&• J* i assent)
(Librarian and Keeper of the Papers)