A copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Ameen ool Dowleh [‘Abdāllah Khān Amīn al-Dawlah, Prime Minister of Persia], undated. The letter concerns the repayment of 200,000 tomans previously paid to the Prince [‘Abbās...
Dispatch No. 121 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Tabreez [Tabriz] and dated 26 November 1828. Macdonald Kinneir discusses his conduct during the negotiations prior to the signing of the T...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad and dated 24 August 1798. The letter reports Jones’s arrival in Constantinople and dispatch of correspondence....
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 31 October 1798. Subjects covered include: Jones’s meeting with the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] Jones’s attempts to obtain intellige...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul], sent from Bagdad and dated 17 April 1799. Jones forwards a letter from Luigi Malagamba to Robert Abbott, late East India Company Agent in Aleppo (IO...
A copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral John Blankett, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Red Sea, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from HMS Leopard at Jedda [Jeddah] and dated 15 June 1800. Blankett reports a visit to Suez where he found that the Convention for the...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 22 June 1800. The letter reports news from Persia [Iran] and Afghanistan regarding the expedition of Baba Khan [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Pers...
A copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral John Blankett, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Red Sea, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from HMS Leopard at Jedda [Jeddah] and dated 30 June 1800. The letter introduces Lieutenant Richard Tanvarine, whom Blankett has sent ...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 1 January 1801. The letter concerns Elgin’s grant of a Birat [commission] to Morad (also known as Mordechai) Coen, a Jewish merchant in Bagdad, and...
Copies of two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 14 May 1801. The first letter concerns the transit of mail and reports of a proposed Franco-Russian attack on India via Persia [Iran]. Jones unde...