Letter from Abbas Mirza to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company
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Letter, in Persian, from Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, Hugh Primrose Lindsay (IOR/L/PS/9/71/149 (1)), and a translation of the letter in English (IOR/L/PS/9/71/149 (2)). In the letter, Abbas Mirza ...
Letter from Abbas Mirza to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company
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Letter, in Persian, from Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, Hugh Primrose Lindsay (IOR/L/PS/9/71/150 (1)), and a translation of the letter in English (IOR/L/PS/9/71/150 (2)). In the letter, Abbas Mirza ...
Copies of Translated Correspondence between the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, and Meerza Abdull Wahab, the Moatumud oo Dowleh
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Copies of translated correspondence between the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, and Meerza Abdull Wahab, the Moatumud oo Dowleh [Mīrzā ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah]. The correspondence comprises two letters from Macdonal...
‘Firman of the King of Persia addressed to Col. McDonald British Envoy to the Court of Persia’
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Firman [a letter or order] from the King of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Persia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated Jemadebraneh 1243 [Jumādá al-Thānīyah 1243 AH, December 1827]. The King indicates that the articles of the...
‘Translation of a Firman from the Shah to Lieut Col. Macdonald Envoy at the Court of Persia’
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Translation of a firman [a letter or order] from the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated Regib [Rajab AH 1243] or January [1828]. The Shah directs Macdonald Kinneir to assist the Prince Royal [ʿ...
‘Translation of a Firman addressed by His Majesty the Shah to H.R.H. Abbas Mirza’
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Translation of a firman [a letter or order] from the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] to Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia]. The Shah orders Abbas Mirza to conclude the agreement of peace in the war between Persia [Iran] and Russia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], r...
‘Copy of General Paskevitch’s Letter to H.E. Meerza Abul Hussan Khan enclosed in the former’
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Copy of a letter from the Russian Commander-in-Chief ‘between the Caspian and Black Sea’, General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia], to Meerza Abul Hussan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs], dated 11 R...
‘Translation of a letter addressed by Lieut. Colonel Macdonald Envoy &. &. &. to Hassan Khan Sardar &. &. &.’
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Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Sardar of Erivan, Hassan Khan Sardar [Ḥusayn Qulī Khān Qājār, Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan]. Macdonald Kinneir reports that the information regarding the arrival of repara...
Copy of a letter (No. 37) from Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald, Envoy to Persia, to the Secret Committee
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Dispatch No. 37 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Tabreez [Tabriz] and dated 11 November 1828. The letter reports Russian victories in the ongoing ...
Dated 3rd June, 1936. HIS EXCELLENCY SHAIKH Sir HAMAD BIN SHAIKH 'ISA AL KHALIFA, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., SHAIKH OF BAHRAIN AND THE BAHREIN PETROLEUM COMPANY LIMITED. DEED OF MODIFICATION OF LEASE [COPY] dated 29th December, 1934.
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The file consists of a copy of a modification made to a commercial lease between Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Sheikh of Bahrein, and the Bahrein Petroleum Company, relating to oil and gas extraction rights on Bahrain Island.
