File 52/1912 Pt 1 'Persia Diaries'

Title:

File 52/1912 Pt 1 'Persia Diaries'

Contributor:

British Consul, Seistan and Kain (author)
Military Attaché, Meshed (author)
British Consul-General, Khorasan (author)

Date:

1911/1913

Description:

This volume contains copies of the weekly diary of the British Military Attaché in Meshed [Mashhad]; the weekly consular diary of Britain's Consul in Khorasan; and the weekly consular diary of the Consul for Sistan and Kain.The reports of the Military Attaché in Meshed are divided into the following sections: Communications, Telegraphs, Navigation, Ethnography, Administration, Geography, History, Military and Resources. The Consular diaries are less formulaic and more varied in content, but all contain a political summary.On folio 344, the volume contains a copy of an illustration that depicts the bombardment of the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad by Russian forces that took place in 1912. A translation of the Farsi poem that appears around the illustration is contained on folio 343.The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened and the subject heading. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.1 volume (448 folios)The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file. The subject 52 (Persia Diaries) consists of 3 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/209-211.Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 448; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Political activities
Diaries

Geographic region:

Mashhad
Sistan
Khorasan
Persia

Extent:

1 volume (448 folios)

Rights:

Unknown
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000066_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000066_en
IOR/L/PS/10/209

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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