A copy of a letter from John McNeill, Surgeon to the British Mission in Tehran, to Meerza Abool Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], Foreign Minister of Persia [Iran], sent from Tehraun [Tehran] and dated 26 November 1827. The letter concerns the ongoing war between Persia and Russia ...
A translation of a firman (edict) from the Shah [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] of Persia [Iran] to Abbas Mirza [‘Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], Crown Prince of Persia. The letter concerns money demanded by Russia from the Persian Government in exchange for the withdrawal of its troops from Persia. The Shah state...
A copy of a note from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Meerza Abool Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, sent from Tehraun [Tehran] and dated 1 July 1828. The letter concerns the abrogati...
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: A dispute between the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] and Muscat Rumoured communication betwe...
Extract of a Letter from Constantinople to Baghdad
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A translated extract of a letter from Coja Reuben ibn Saleh [Khāwja Rūbīn bin Ṣāliḥ] to Coja Abdullah ibn Eussof [Khāwja ‘Abdullāh bin Yūsuf] in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 20 November 1798. The letter forwards news from Cairo received in Constantinople. It r...
A copy of a letter Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 26 April 1799. Jones reports that he has sent a messenger to Syria to obtain information on the French campaign led by General Napoleon Bonaparte. The letter a...
Part 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 in Mocha Roads and dated 20 June 1799. The letter concerns the Government of Mecca, in particular the attitude of the S...
A copy of a letter from Captain John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from a camp five miles from Aboosheher [Bushehr] and dated 18 April 1800. The letter forwards three extracts of the latest intelligence Ma...
Two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Bagdad and dated 28 and 29 April 1800. The letters concern reports received by the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] from Damascus that the Vizier [Yūsuf Ẓī...
A translation of a letter from Mohammed Sadoo [Muḥammad Ṣadr?], an informant of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Jones, sent from Isfahaun [Isfahan] and dated 5 Jemaud-ul-sauny [Jumāda al-Thānī] (13 October 1801). The letter forwards reports from Afghanistan, including the capt...