Secret No. 5 of 1875, Forwarding Copies of Telegrams, and Communicating the Views of the Government of India Regarding Abstention from Interference between the Ameer of Afghanistan and Sirdar Mahomed Yakoob Khan, Especially from Teheran
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This item consists of a copy of a Secret Letter from the Government of India’s Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 22 January 1875 (received by the India Office’s Political Department on 15 February 1875, and answered on 12 March 1875), forwarding copies of telegrams, an...
Copy of a Letter from the Chairman of the Court of Directors to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control
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A copy of a letter from the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 10 March 1810. The letter requests permission to inform other members of the Court of Directors of the present state of trea...
Copy of a Letter from Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, to Amin ud Dowlah, Second Vizier of Persia
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A copy of a letter from Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, to Amin ud Dowlah [Muhammad Hossein Khān Amīn al-Dawlah], Second Vizier of Persia [Iran]. The letter concerns: the arrival of Mirza Abul Hassan [Mīrzā Abul Hassan], Persian Ambassador, in London; the hope for stronger r...
Copy of a Letter from HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley, in Shiraz, to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors
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Copy of a letter, numbered 2, from Sir Gore Ousley [Ouseley], Ambassador to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee. The letter directs the recipients to enclosed correspondence with the Governor General of India (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/101), and adds that he has succeeded in quelling suspicions among...
Copy of Dispatch No. 10 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
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Copy of dispatch No. 10 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 10 May 1818. The letter concerns the determination of the Shah of Persia to send a Persian embassy to Britain, detailing Willock’s ...
Copy of a 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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Copy of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 26 May 1819, which was received on 28 August 1819. The letter encloses a copy of Willock’s Dispatch No. 13 of 25 May 1819, and a translation of a letter fro...
'Translation of a Letter Meer Ali Akbar (supposed to be of the Tribe Huzarah) at Meshid to Hussein Ali Mirza the Prince of Khorasan'
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Translation of a letter from Meer Ali Akbar [Mīr ‘Alī Akbar Hazārah], believed to be of the Huzarah [Hazārah] tribe, in Meshid [Mashhad], to the Prince of Khorasan, Hussein Ali Mirza [Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mirza Farmānfarmā]. The letter concerns the conflict between the brothers of Futteh Khan [Fatḥ Khān...
'Copy of a letter from the Right Honourable Sir Evan Nepean Baronet Governor of Bombay, to the Imaum of Muskat, dated the 9th October 1819'
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Copy of a letter from the Governor of Bombay, Sir Evan Nepean, to the Imaum of Muskat [Imam of Muscat], Sayyid Sa‘īd bin Sulṭān Āl Bū Sa‘īd, of 9 October 1819. The letter communicates the imminent embarkation from Bombay [Mumbai] of an expeditionary force assembled for the purpose of attacking R...
Copy of a Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Sir 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 29 December 1819. The letter concerns communications between Willock and the ministers of the Court of the Shah of Persia regarding the planned British expedition, o...
Copy of Dispatch No. 5 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh
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Copy of dispatch No. 5 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 17 January 1820. The letter reports the capture of Ras-il-Khyma [Ra’s al-Khaymah] by the British on 9 December 1819 and the subseque...