Letter from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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A letter, numbered 4, from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 23 March 1812, which was received on 8 August 1812. In the letter, Ouseley offers his congratulations to the Secret Committee on the successf...
Copy of a Dispatch from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto
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Copy of dispatch No. 10 from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto, of 12 May 1812. The letter encloses the quarterly accounts of the Embassy in Tehran and a set of bills for the Chief Cler...
Copy of a Letter from the Secret Committee of the East India Company, in London, to the Earl of Buckinghamshire
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Copy of a secret letter from the Secret Committee of the East India Company, in London, to the Earl of Buckinghamshire, of 13 April 1813. In the letter the Secret Committee follows up its request that the Earl of Buckinghamshire draw to the attention of HM ministers the payment of a subsidy to Pe...
Copy of a Letter from HM Ambassador to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto
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Copy of dispatch No. 9 from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tehran, to the Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William, Lord Minto, of 9 May 1813. The letter concerns a dispute regarding a pensioner of the East India Company, Mahommed Nebe Khan [Muhammad...
Copy of a Letter from HM Minister to Persia, James Morier, in Tehran, to the Resident at Bushire, William Bruce
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Copy of a letter from HM Minister to Persia [Iran], James Morier, in Tehran, to the Resident at Bushire, William Bruce, of 15 June 1815. The letter is in reply to Bruce’s letter of 4 May 1815 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/184), and gives Bruce permission to withdraw himself from his interference in the aff...
'Translation of a letter from a person in the service of Kamran Mirza to the Prince of Khorasan'
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Translation of a letter from an unknown person in the service of Kamran Mirza [Shahzada Kāmrān Durrānī] to the Prince of Khorasan (Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mirza Farmānfarmā). The letter concerns the conflict between the brothers of Futteh Khan [Fatḥ Khan Bārakzāy] and the Shah of Afghanistan, Mahmood Shah [...
‘Definition of the frontier of Russia and Persia as arranged at Tiflis by Lt General Wilhemenoff and Major General Madadoff on the part of the Governor General of Georgia and by Futteh Allee Khan on the part of the Prince Royal of Persia’
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Copy of the definition of the frontier between Russia and Persia [Iran] agreed at Tiflis [Tbilisi] between the Russian plenipotentiaries, Lieutenant-General Wilhemenoff and Major-General Madadoff [Prince Valerian Grigoryevich Madatov], and the Persian plenipotentiary Futteh Allee Khan [Fath-‘Ali...
‘Translation of a letter addressed to H.I.H. The Grand Duke Constantine by H.R.H. Abbas Meerza’
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Translation of a letter from Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] to the Grand Duke Constantine [Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia]. In the letter, Abbas Meerza argues that the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Persia [Iran] [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by Lieut. Colonel Macdonald Envoy &. &. to His Royal Highness Abbas Mirza. &. &. &.’
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Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia]. Macdonald Kinneir indicates that he has recently received communications from the Ministers of the Shah of Persia...
‘List of Dispatches and of their enclosures entrusted to the care of Captain Campbell by whom they will be delivered to the Honble the Chairman of the Secret Committee’
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List of the dispatches and enclosures entrusted to Captain John Campbell, the assistant to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, for delivery to the Secret Committee of the East India Company. The list is numbered 27 and was received on 25 Febru...
