'Translation of a Letter from His Royal Highness Abbas Meerza to Sir Harford Jones Baronet'
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Translation of a letter from the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], Abbas Meerza [Mirza], to HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones. The letter concerns the approach of the French envoy, Georges Outrey, to Persia, after having accompanied the Persian Ambassa...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 29 Mar 1820
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A copy of a letter from Captain Collier to Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, sent from HMS Liverpool off the island of Kenn [Kīsh] and dated 21 February 1820. The letter assesses the islands of Kishmee [Qeshm] and Kenn as a potential British ...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 29 Mar 1820
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A copy of a letter from William Bruce, Resident in Bushire [Būshehr], to Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, sent from HMS Curlew off the island of Kenn [Kīsh] and dated 20 February 1820. The letter concerns ‘piracy’ on the Persian [Iranian] sh...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 20 May 1820
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A translation of a note from the Sudr Aazim [Sadr-i A’zam, Prime Minister] of Persia [Hājī Muhammad Husayn Khān Isfahānī] to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], undated. The note concerns British policy in the Gulf, advising Willock not to press for concessions from Persia. Th...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 26 May 1820
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A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to Lord Castlereagh, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sent from Tehran and dated 26 May 1810. The letter reports a meeting with Mohammed Ali Mirza [Muhammad ‘Ali Mīrzā Dowlatshāh], the Prince-Governor of Kermans...
Enclosure in Henry Willock's Letter to the Secret Committee of 6 Jul 1820
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A copy of a letter from Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], to Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, sent from Bombay and dated 28 October 1819. Warden requests Keir’s opinion on measures for the long-term preve...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 6 Jul 1820
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A copy of a letter from Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], to Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, sent from Bombay and dated 29 October 1819. The letter authorises Keir to make a brief stop at Muscat en route ...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 26 Dec 1820
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A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to the Sudr Aazim [Haji Mohammad Husayn Khān Isfahānī, Sadr-e ’Azam or Prime Minister of Persia], undated. In response to the Prime Minister’s note of 12 December (IOR/L/PS/9/69/48), Willock asks that the Prince of Sh...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 8 Feb 1821
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A copy of a letter from Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], sent from Bombay Castle and dated 3 October 1820. The letter concerns Anglo-Persian relations following the 1819 British campaign against ‘piracy’, in particul...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 29 Aug 1821
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A translation of a note from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d'Affaires in Persia [Iran], to the Kaem Mukam [Mīrzā Abūl Qāsem Qāem Maqām Farāhānī, Vizier to the Crown Prince of Persia], undated. The letter concerns the arrears in subsidy payments to Persia. The letter was enclosed in Willock’s lette...
