ملف ١٩١٦/٣٨١٦ "بلاد فارس. بخصوص السماح للسيدات البريطانيات بالسفر إلى بلاد فارس" [و‎‎٩‎٩] (٥٥٣/٢٠٦)

join me here early in the spring.
I hive the honour to attach hereto, a cutting from the
"Times of India" of Miy 8th, in which it is intimated that
passports may he issued to persons wishing to leave the
United Kingdom for definite reasons of urgent private necessity,
and to point out that owing to my having no residence in
England, ity wife was granted special privileges for proceeding
to Calais to take up her temporary residence with my son-in-
law (Mr. H. A. Richards, H.M's Consul) there, pending the
granting of a passport for her to join me here.
I learn that iny wife's health is being prejudicially
affected owing to the constant bombing of Calais by the
Germans, and as I shall be resident here for some years I
venture to submit that this is a case of "urgent private
necessity" warranting my application for permission for her
to be allowed to leave England early in September and to be
allowed to join rne at Bush.ire*
I have, therefore, the honour to request that you will
be good enough to accord me your assistance in facilitating
arrangements with the Government of Ind ia for her to leave
England at any suitable opportunity towards the end of August,
or early in September, in order that she may be able to
reach Bush ire some time during November.
I shall esteem it a privilege if the Government of
India will intimate to the India Office by telegraph (at my
expense) that the necessary permission has been granted by
them for her to be allowed to proceed to Bushire, and to
inform Mr. Richards, at Calais, of the fact, in order that
the requisite arrangements may be made for my wife s journey.
Ify wife and I are no longer young having spent the major
portion of our lives in Persia (in the service of the Govern
ment of India), we have no ties in England and this, as I
have already mentioned, will be our home for some years to
come; so that I trust the necessary permission will not be
a withheld