Enclosure in Sir Harford Jones's Letter No. 5 of 26 Mar 1810
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A translated copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], to Meerza Sheffea [Mirzā Muhammad Shafī Māzandarānī], Prime Minister of Persia, dated 18 March 1810. The letter concerns: the Persian Court's relations with Brigadier-Gener...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee 17 Apr 1820
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A copy of a letter from Major-General William Grant Keir, Commander of the 1819 expedition to the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], sent from Bushire [Būshehr] and dated 22 March 1820. Keir forwards translations of letters from Hoossein Ali Mirza [Husayn 'Ali...
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to John McCulloch of 20 Apr 1824
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Notes of Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia’s [Iran] meetings with Persian Ministers and the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] between December 1823 and April 1824. The meetings concern the proposed transfer of responsibility for diplomatic relations between Persia and Britai...
‘Translation of a Ruckum from H.R.H. Abbas Meerza to the Envoy’
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Translation of a Ruckum [raqm, also known as a raqim, a letter or an order] from Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. Referring to the transfer of the jurisdiction of British dipl...
‘Copy of a letter from the British Envoy to H. E. Manucheher Khan’
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Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Manucheher Khan [Manūchihr Khān Gurjī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah], of 8 February 1828. Macdonald Kinneir indicates that negotiations for the finalisation of the peace treaty negotiated to ...
Letters to Harford Jones from J A Grant and Samuel Manesty
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Two letters received by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]: 1. A letter from J A Grant, Sub-Secretary to the Government of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Bombay Castle and dated 24 May 1799. The letter reports the capture of Seringapatam by British forces on 4 May, the death of Tippoo Sult...
File 1187/1914 Pt 3 ‘Persia: British interests in the South. The Bakhtiari [Lynch] road from Ahwaz to Ispahan’
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This part contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to British interests in the South of Persia [Iran]. It includes papers relating to the following: the Persian Transport Company considering the question of improving the Bakhtiari Lynch road between Ispahan and Ahwaz, so as to make it su...
File 1647/1918 Pt 2 'Arabia: Hedjaz; Hostel for pilgrims at Mecca; British Representative at Mecca'
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The item contains correspondence and other papers regarding events after the postponement of plans for a hostel at Mecca to house pilgrims from the British Empire and a British Muslim Representative at Mecca to look after the interests of such pilgrims. The papers are primarily concerned with th...
File 4613/1919 Pt 2 'Mesopotamia:- Land Policy. Messrs Sassoon's dealings in land at Basra.'
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This item consists of part two of the subject file 4613/1919 Iraq: Land Tenure. It concerns British land policy in the occupied territories of Mesopotamia [Iraq] and particularly relates to the registration of land purchases. The correspondence is mainly concerned with a request from E D Sassoo...
‘MESOPOTAMIA: RETURN OF LEADING BAGHDADIS FROM SYRIA. JAAFAR PASHA [and] NURI SAID PASHA’
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This part of the volume is concerned with the return of leading Iraqi officers Gaafar Pasha el Askari [Jafar Pasha al-Askari, also written as Jaafar and Jafar] and Nury Said [Nuri Pasha al-Said, also written as Noury] to Iraq. Also discussed are the appointment of Percy Cox as High Commissioner...
