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 Tehran and dated 28 November 1827. In the context of the ongoing war between Persia and Russia [Russo-Persian War...
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 Tehran and dated 1-2 December 1827. McNeill reports on his meetings with the Shah [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] concern...
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 2 December 1827. The letter reports that the Shah [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] has handed o...
A copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran] Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir to John McNeill, Surgeon to the British Mission in Tehraun [Tehran], sent from Deheraghan [Azarshahr] and dated 12 December 1827. The letter concerns peace terms for ending the war be...
Extracts of Letters received by Jean-François Rousseau
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Extracts of letters found in the papers of Jean-François Rousseau, French Consul in Bagdad [Baghdad], following his arrest in October 1798, and copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad: An extract of a letter from Marie Louis Henri d’Escorches de Sainte-Croix, Envoy of the French Republic to ...
Copies of five letters between Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, and Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]: 1. A letter from Elgin to Jones, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 16 November 1799. The letter announces Elgin’s arrival in Constantinople and assumption...
This item contains copies of two letters: 1. A letter from Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bonyakdere [Büyükdere] and dated 21 October 1802. Elgin reports discussions with Ottoman Ministers concerning: the nomination of ...
File 815/1917 Pt 1F 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buyoning. Rent of Kais Island light vessel'
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This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing the removal and the rent of the lightship called Shindi, located at Kais Island, Persian Gulf. Related matters of discussion include the following: the renting of the lightship until the erection of a lighthouse at Sheik...
Item 815/1917 Pt 1G 'Persian Gulf: lighting and buoying; residency Flagstaff light at Bushire'
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This part is mainly composed of interdepartmental correspondence discussing charges to the account of the Bushire Residency Flagstaff lightship in charge of lighting and buoying. Notable correspondents include the following: the Government of India's Army Department, the Government of India's M...
PZ 2775/34 ‘Mrs Margaret Howson – Application for financial assistance towards maintenance and outfit of her son, WR Howson, King’s India cadet at Sandhurst’
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The file contains mainly correspondence and notes by India Office officials, relating to the applications of Mrs Margaret Howson, widow of a former British Consul at Bandar Abbas who died in 1918, for the grant of additional financial assistance from the Government of India in the 1930s, on groun...
