Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 24 February 1820, which was received on 13 July 1820. The letter encloses a copy of Willock’s dispatch No. 9 to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of 14 Februar...
Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 6 March 1820, which was received on 13 July 1820. The letter encloses a letter from Major-General Sir William Grant Keir to Willock concerning the ongoing British exp...
'Translation of a Letter from His Royal Highness the Prince at Shirauz to the Right Honourable the Governor in Bombay'
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Translation of a letter from the Prince of Shirauz [Shiraz], Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mirzā Farmānfarmā, to the Governor of Bombay, Sir Evan Nepean, received at Rasal Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] on 25 December 1819. The letter is in reply to Nepean’s letter to the Prince of 9 October 1819 concerning the British ...
‘By Captain F.A. Collier CB of His Majesty’s Ship Liverpool and Senior Officer of the Squadron in the Persian Gulph’
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Copy of a letter from Captain Francis Augustus Collier, senior naval officer of the British expedition to the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf], aboard HMS Liverpool, to Captain F Lock [Captain Francis Erskine Loch], Captain of HMS Eden, dated 3 January 1820. The letter instructs Lock to proceed to B...
Copy of a Letter from Captain Francis Erskine Loch, aboard HMS Eden at Bachrine, to Captain Francis Augustus Collier
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Copy of a letter from Captain Francis Erskine Loch, aboard HMS Eden at Bachrine [Bahrain], to Captain Francis Augustus Collier, of 26 January 1820. The letter concerns Captain Loch’s operations against the al-Qawasim and their allies in the Persian Gulf, including at Bachrine, where he secured t...
Copy of a Letter from the Governor of Bombay, Mountstuart Elphinstone, at Bombay Castle, to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock
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Copy of a letter from the Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], Mountstuart Elphinstone, at Bombay Castle, to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, of 15 December 1819. The letter discusses the British expedition to the Gulph of Persia [Persian Gulf] against the Joasmee [al-Qawasim] and t...
Copy of a Letter from the Chief Secretary at Bombay Castle, Francis Warden, to Major-General Sir William Grant Keir
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Copy of a letter from the Chief Secretary at Bombay Castle, Francis Warden, to the commander of the British expedition to the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf], Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, of 15 December 1819. The letter encloses a copy of the letter of the Governor of Bombay [Mumbai] in Co...
Copy of a Letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to Major-General Sir William Grant Keir
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Copy of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, of 10 March 1820. The letter concerns the British aim of establishing a base in the Persian Gulf from which to suppress ‘piracy’ following the British expedition agains...
‘Translation of a Firmaum from His Royal Highness the Prince of Shirauz to the Officer commanding the Expedition in the Persian Gulf. Dated Nuber ul Arul 9th 1235’
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Translation of a firmaum [firman, order] from the Prince of Shirauz [Shiraz] to Major-General Sir William Grant Keir, the officer commanding the British expedition in the Persian Gulf, dated 9 Rabīʿ I 1235 [26 December 1819]. The firmaum forbids any offensive action against any ports along the P...
Copy of a Letter from Henry Willock, Chargé d'Affaires in Persia, to Joseph Dart, Secretary to the Court of Directors
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A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to Joseph Dart, Secretary to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Tabriz and dated 6 August 1820. The letter forwards Willock’s communications with the Supreme Government of India (IOR/L/PS/9/6...
