Translated Papers Concerning Frontier Negotiations Between Russia and Persia
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A collection of translated papers concerning the mission of Mirza Saudik [Mirza Muhammad Sadiq Marvazi], who has been sent to discuss the ongoing border dispute between Russia and Persia [Iran] with the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov]. These pa...
‘Extract from the Private Journal of Colonel Macdonald’
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Extract from the private journal of the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated 15 October 1827 to 14 December 1827. The journal details negotiations for peace in the ongoing war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. Macdona...
A copy of a letter from John McNeill, Surgeon to the British Mission in Tehran, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran] Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, sent from Tehraun [Tehran] and dated 5 December 1827. The letter describes a meeting between McNeill and the Shah [Fatḥ-‘A...
Copy of a letter, in French, from Jean Paskevitch [Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, sent from Tourkmenchai [Turkamanchay] and dated 17 February (Old Style)/29 February (...
A translation of a memorandum sent by the Moatumud ool-Dowleh [Manūchihr Khān Gurjī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated 4 July 1828. The memorandum presents a new defence arrangement between Britain and Persia p...
Dispatch No. 110 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Andrew Stirling, Acting Secretary to the Government of Bengal, dated 9 July 1828. Macdonald Kinneir describes meetings with the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Pe...
A copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, undated. The letter concerns Macdonald Kinneir’s meeting with Meerza Abul Hassan ...
Dispatch No. 121 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Tabreez [Tabriz] and dated 26 Nov 1828. Macdonald Kinneir discusses his conduct during the negotiations prior to the signing of the Treaty...
Letters concerning Persia, Afghanistan and the arms trade
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This item contains three documents: 1. A copy of a letter from Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle and dated 4 May 1799. In response to Jones’s letter of 25 March (IOR/L/PS/9/76/60) concerning an embassy rumoured...
Copies of four letters 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 16 April-20 June 1799. Blankett forwards information collected from around the Red Sea a...