Abstracts of Sir Harford Jones's Correspondence with the Secret Committee
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Abstracts of Sir Harford Jones's correspondence with the Secret Committee, from 3 February to 14 September 1810. The correspondence concerns the progress of his ongoing diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran].
List of Enclosures in the Bengal Secret Letters dated 9th February, 31st March, 3rd May + 6th June 1808, relative to Persia
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The volume relates to affairs in Persia [Iran] and contains copies of letters, extracts and translations of letters, intelligence reports, and proceedings of Governor-General in Council meetings at Fort William, Calcutta [Kolkata], being enclosures to several despatches sent during the first hal...
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter, dated 17th September 1808
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The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Brigadier-General John Malcolm’s 1808 mission to Persia [Iran] as East India Company Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The papers are enclosures to a packet sent to the Secret...
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letters of 21 December 1808, 20 January and 3 April 1809
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The volume contains correspondence relating to affairs in Persia [Iran] and the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf]. The principal correspondents are: Sir Harford Jones [later Jones-Brydges], Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Persia; Lord Minto [Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynyn...
Letters and Enclosures on Persia to the Secret Department, 1809-1810
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This volume comprises a single packet addressed to the Secret Department, containing transcripts and supplementary duplicate copies of secret letters, excerpts of intelligence reports, itineraries, travel accounts, translated diplomatic letters, treaties, royal edicts or firmaun [farmān], and tra...
Enclosures on Persia from the Secret Department, Fort St George, to the Secret Committee, 1809-1810
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The volume contains the contents of three packets sent by the Secret Department, Fort St George, Madras [Chennai], to the Secret Committee, London, dated 21 December 1809, 10, and 26 January 1810. The contents consist of correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], particularly in connection to Br...
The volume comprises correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, abstracts, and extracts of political consultations concerning a number of miscellaneous subjects relating to Persia [Iran]. Matters covered include: French influence and activities in Persia and the Red Sea The diplomatic missions...
French intrigues in Persia and Attempts of the French to acquire the Island of Cameran in the Red Sea
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The item consists of correspondence and extracts of papers relating to French influence and activities in the Red Sea (often referred to as the ‘Arabian Gulph’) and Persia [Iran], sent to the Chairman of the Court of Directors, Charles Grant, and the Secret Committee. Matters covered include: F...
The item consists of abstracts, in English, of French papers, probably intercepted, relating to relations between France and Persia [Iran]. The papers are as follows: Abstract of a letter from General Gardanne [Claude Mathieu de Gardane], Envoy to Persia, to DeCaen [Charles Mathieu Isidore Decae...