Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf, Vol 21 – Correspondence between the Bombay Government and the Government of India Regarding the Seizure of the Dinar by the Resident at Bushire and the Claim of Persia to Sovereignty Over Bahrain
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 37 of 28 February 1867, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of B...
Political No. 9 of 1876, Appointment to Persiaof an Officer from the Indian Service
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This item consists of a copy of a Political Letter from the Government of India’s Foreign Department, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 9 of 1876, dated 14 January 1876, submitting a copy of a letter from HM Minister at Teheran [Tehran] dated 6 October 1875. The letter discusses the prop...
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 letter from the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 30 January 1810. The letter recommends informing other members of the Court of Directors and the Governor-General of Bengal of the present ...
Copy of a Letter from Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, to Meerza Mohammed Shafeea, First Vizier of Persia
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A copy of a letter from Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, to Mirza Shefia [Mīrzā Muhammad Shafī' Māzandarānī], First Vizier (Prime Minister) of Persia [Iran]. The letter concerns: the arrival of Mirza Abul Hassan [Mīrzā Abul Hassan], Persian Ambassador, in London; the hope for...
Enclosures in Letter No.3 from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia, to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control
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Enclosures in Letter No. 3 from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated March 1809, consisiting of: A letter from Jones to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 18 February 1809, reporting Jones’s ar...
'Translation of a letter from Sir Harford Jones Baronet, to His Royal Highness Abbas Meerza Prince Royal of Persia dated the 12 May 1810'
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Translation of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to the Prince Royal of Persia [Crown Prince of Persia], Abbas Meerza ['Abbās Mīrza Qājār̄], dated 12 May 1810. The letter relates to the arrangements for the Turkish [Ottoman]...
Copy of Dispatch No. 31 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. 31 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 26 December 1819. The letter concerns the British expedition to the Persian Gulph [Persian Gulf] against the Juwasemees [al-Qāsimī]...
Copy of Dispatch No. 5 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning
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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, George Canning, of 12 February 1825. The letter gives a review of the policies of Britain and Russia towards Persia during the preceding ten years, and the q...
Copy of a Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton
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Copy of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in Tehran, to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 21 January 1825. Willock reports the impatience of the Persian Government for the settlement of the subsidy account between Britain...
Letter from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, in camp at Ardebil, 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 camp at Ardebil [Ardabil], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 22 August 1826, which was received from the Foreign Office on 13 November 1826. The letter originally enclosed a translation of a firman (order) fr...
