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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209652 ''SW Persia: A Political Officers Diary 1907-1914''] by Sir Arnold Wilson 1941 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/ThePersianGulf.AnHistoricalSketchFromTheEarliestTimesToTheBeginningOfTheTwentiet/page/n4/mode/2up ''The Persian Gulf. An Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century''] by Lt. Col. Sir Arnold T Wilson 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283609/page/n3/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org
:[http://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1865 ''Persia''] by Sir Arnold Wilson 1932. Link to a pdf download STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, website has been noticed to be unavailable at times. Possibly may be open only during "office hours". [https://archive.org/details/persia-wilson-1932/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Missing some of the front matter pages.
*First World War period and later: British Library India Office Records on Qatar Digital Library
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000142 ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'']. A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly in 1929. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/28
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000880.0x0002d8 ''Memoirs and Recollections of An Officer of the Indian Political Service''] by Sir John Richard Cotton (b 1909). British Library Mss Eur F226/7 . Qatar Digital Library. A photocopy of a typewritten draft written c 1983. [https://web.archive.org/web/20171206135947/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1383640/Sir-John-Cotton.html. ''The Telegraph'' Obituary 2002]. After spending his childhood in India, he returned in 1929, initially in the 8th (King George's Own) Light Cavalry, then joined the Indian Political Service in 1934 where he served in the Persian Gulf and in Aden, Addis Ababa in Abyssinia then a series of Indian princely states. After Independence he joined the British Foreign Service.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. British Library Mss Eur F226/28 Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written c 1980 by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33) and his later postings included the Persian Gulf and Kuwait. Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1944-over-khyber-to-the-caspian-sea-by-ahlsand-s-pdf/ ''Over Khyber to the Caspian Sea''] by Ruth Ahlsand 1944. Published by Thackers Bombay. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2828/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. The Norwegian authoress and her husband followed the trail of the Peacock Throne, which was looted from Delhi and taken to Teheran in 1739. It is thus a different kind of travel book, tracing the path and the history of this Throne and touching on characters and events. <ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/59477978 Book review ''Sunday Times'' (Perth, WA : Sun 22 Jun 1947] trove.nla.gov.au</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.227014/mode/2up ''Russia And The West In Iran 1918-1948''] by George Lenczowski 1949. Chapters One and particularly Two, include the British involvement. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/thearabianfrontierofthebritishrajmerchantsrulersandthebritishinthenineteenthcenturygulf/mode/2up ''The Arabian Frontier Of The British Raj: Merchants, Rulers, And The British In The Nineteenth Century Gulf''] by James Onley 2007. Archive.org.
