Appointment of Raoof Pasha as Governor General of Turkish Arabia
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This item comprises copies of a political despatch and enclosures from the Government of India, Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 121 of 1872, dated 10 June 1872. The enclosures date from 6 to 25 May 1872, and consist of letters from the Government of Bombay and Colonel...
Sind Affairs: Matters Relating to Afghanistan, Kelat and Persia
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This item comprises enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee [Bombay Secret Letter], No. 11 dated 16 January 1857. The enclosures are dated 22-27 December 1856. The papers comprise two letters from Lieutenant-Colonel John Jacob, ...
Enclosure in Sir Harford Jones's letter of 14 September 1810
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Copy of a letter in French from Jean Robbio, a French courier captured in Bushire, to Monsieur Dallons, a French envoy to Mascat [Muscat], of 11 April 1810. This letter was part of the papers seized from Robbio at Bushire by Stephen Babington, in charge of the Residency at Bushire (see IOR/L/PS/...
Enclosure 3 (No. 59/1) to Letter of 20 August 1827
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Copy of a letter, in French, from the Governor-General of Georgia, Jean Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, sent from Abbas Abad [‘Abbasabad] and dated 15 July (New Style)/27 July ...
Extract from the Journal of Captain John Nicholl Robert Campbell
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Extract from the journal of Captain John Nicholl Robert Campbell, the assistant to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, during his visit to the camp of the Prince Royal [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia]. The journal details the c...
‘Translation of a letter from the Envoy to Meerza Abdul Wahab’
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Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Meerza Abdul Wahab [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah], of 15 December 1827. In the letter Macdonald Kinneir indicates that rather than reply directly ...
‘Translation of a letter from the Kaim Mukam to the Envoy’
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Translation of a letter from the Kaim Mukam, Abul Cossim [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām, Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. The Kaim Mukam reports that money intended for payment to Russia ...
‘Transcript of a letter from the Envoy to Mirza Abdul Wahab’
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Transcript of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Mirza Abdul Wahab [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah]. Macdonald Kinneir exhorts Mirza Abdul Wahab to dispatch the sixth crore of tomans required to pay...
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Court of Directors
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Three letters from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company]. Two copies of a letter dated 11 April 1781. The letter forwards intelligence received in ...
Letters from William Digges Latouche to the Court of Directors
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A copy of a letter from William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], to the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company], dated 15 June 1781. Subjects covered include: Arrangements for the passage of various...
