| Description | Printed, typescript and manuscript memoranda, minutes, notes and correspondence; may contain copy correspondence and drafts; relating to military situation in Persia, 1916-1917
Correspondents: [Arthur James] Balfour [1st Earl of Balfour; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1915-1916; Foreign Secretary, 1916-1919], General Barrow, Sir Percy Sykes, Shuckburgh, George Curzon [1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; Lord President of the Council, 1916-1919; Leader of the House of Lords, 1916-1924; Member of Imperial War Cabinet, 1916; Lord Privy Seal, 1915-1916; various other political offices], Austen Chamberlain [acting as Secretary of State for India, 1915-1917] and others
Includes: /1 Printed memorandum relating to military situation in Persia and possible consequences in India, Afghanistan and elsewhere, 1916; /2-/21, /25-/27, /33, /38-/48, /53 Typescript, manuscript and printed copies of [some cypher] telegraphic correspondence, dispatches, minutes and other correspondence, of Viceroy of Foreign Department, Army Department, Secretary of State for India, and others, relating to operations, etc, 1916-1917; /24, /30, /36-/37 Typescript and printed notes and memoranda relating to situation in Southern Persia, 1916-1917 |