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File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’ [183r] (374/434)
The record is made up of 1 volume (212 folios). It was created in 8 Dec 1902-23 Feb 1911. 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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Inclosure 7 in No. 1.
Sir A. Hardinge to Government of India.
Tehran, February 24, 1905.
(Telegraphic.) P.
MAILS for British post-offices in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
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Persian Goyernment request that—
i u. 1 ’ ( ? ont ^ mm " letters should be separated from those containing parcels • the
parc fr nt thr ?, u S h Persian post-offices, in accordance
with Article 27 of the R^glement Bouamer,” be examined by the Customs •
2. A special Agreement should be concluded with them for the regulation of the
exchange ot postal correspondence between Persia and India.
Persian Government point out that they now have a parcels-post service of their
own and that there never could have been any intention that parcels containing
offices 6 artlC 68 shonkl enter the countr y without payment of duty through our post-
If you agree to the proposals on principle, I will ask them to draft the outlines of
the Agreement they would desire, and would send it to you by next messenger.
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The volume contains correspondence and notes by British officials, about their negotiations in the lead up to the Parcel Post Agreement of 1910 with Persia. The main correspondents are the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department at Calcutta and the British Chargé d'Affaires at Tehran. They discuss cooperative arrangements for the examination by Persian Customs officials of postal parcels arriving from India and elsewhere, at British Indian Post Offices in Bushire and other towns along the Persian Coast of the Gulf. Included in the volume are copies of the following documents written in French: the Parcel Post Agreement between Great Britain and Persia of 1910 and Annex of 1911, the Parcel Post Agreement between Austro-Hungary and Turkey of 1870, and several letters by senior Persian Customs officials at Bushire and Tehran.
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- 1 volume (212 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 1311 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : post offices: Parcel Post Convention) consists of one volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the leading flyleaf with 1 and terminates at the ending flyleaf with 212; 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers.
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- IOR/L/PS/10/78
- Title
- File 1311/1905 ‘Persian Gulf: - Post Offices. (Parcel Post Convention)’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:3v, 5r:9v, 11r:16v, 21r:25v, 34r:43v, 46r:52v, 58r:59v, 60v:64v, 65ar:65av, 65r:111v, 114r:137v, 140r:161v, 171r:174v, 175v:180v, 183r:186v, 189r:191r, 193v:202v, 203v:212v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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