Copy of a Letter from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia, to Lord Minto, Governor-General of India
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A copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 28 April 1808, mostly concerning the implications of Brigadier-General John Malcolm having been sent on a special mission to Persia representing the Supreme G...
Copy of a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Head of Mission to Persia, to the Secret Committee
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A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, newly appointed Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bombay [Mumbai] and dated 17 December 1799. The letter reports Malcolm’s plans...
Copy of a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Head of Mission to Persia, to the Secret Committee
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A copy of a letter from Captain John Malcolm, newly appointed Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bombay [Mumbai] and dated 17 December 1799. The letter reports Malcolm’s intention to tr...
Copy of a Letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Head of Mission to Persia, to the Secret Committee
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A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from a Royal camp at Sultaniah [Soltaniyeh] and dated 27 June 1810. The letter covers: Malcolm’s reception at the Royal camp and meet...
Copy of a Letter from Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, at Sharga, to Captain Francis Augustus Collier
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Copy of a letter from Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, at Sharga [Sharjah], to Captain Francis Augustus Collier, of 1 February 1820. The letter contains instructions for Captain Collier and Captain Francis Erskine Loch as part of the ongoing expedition against the al-Qawasim and their allie...
Copy of a Letter from Henry Willock, Chargé d'Affaires in Persia, to the Secret Committee.
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A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Tehran and dated 4 April 1824. The letter reports that Major George Willock has been charged by the Shah and Prince Royal [Crown P...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by the Prince Royal of Persia to H.E. General Yermoloff’
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Translation of a letter from the Prince Royal of Persia [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār] to the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov]. In the letter the Prince Royal discusses the ongoing frontier negotiations between Russia and Persia [Iran]...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by H.E. General Yermoloff to Futteh Ali Khan Beglerbegee of Tabriz’
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Translation of a letter from the Governor-General of Georgia, General Alexis Yermoloff [Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov], to the Beglerbegee [Beglerbegi, or Beylerbeyi, Turkish and Azeri for Governor-General] of Tabriz, Futteh Ali Khan [Fath-‘Ali Khan Rashti]. In the letter, General Yermoloff is crit...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by H.R.H. Abbas Mirza to H.E. General Yermoloff’
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Translation of a letter from the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], Abbas Mirza ['Abbās Mīrzā Qājār], to the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov]. In the letter Abbas Mirza entreats Yermoloff to discuss the ongoing frontier dispute between Russia an...
‘Translation of a letter from His Excellency Meerza Abul Hussan Khan to His Excellency Count Nessolrode’
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Translation of a letter from the Persian [Iranian] Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hussan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khan Shīrāzī], to the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Nessolrode [Count Karl Robert Nesselrode]. In the letter, Meerza Abul Hussan Khan give his thanks for the...
