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The Arrival of the Comet at Baghdad, and Affairs in the Southern Part of the Baghdad Pashalic
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This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 13 of 1853, dated 24 February 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 15 December 1852. The enclosure is a letter from the Pol...
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf and Muscat (Vol 6) – The Circumstances Surrounding the Death of the Late Sultan of Muscat, Syud Thowenee, and the Proceedings Adopted by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in Consequence
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This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 61 of 23 August 1866, 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 Bom...
Political No. 23 of 1876, Claims BetweenResidents of Bahrein and Guttur
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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. 23 of 1876, dated 28 January 1876, submitting enclosures related to the settlement of financial claims, dated 6 November 1875-27 January 1876. The enclo...
Copy of a Letter from Sir Harford Jones, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, to Sir George Barlow, Governor of Madras
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Copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], to Sir George Barlow, Governor of Madras, dated 4 April 1810. The letter reports the presentation of a sabre to Lieutenant Henry Willock, and the bestowal of the Order of the Sun [Order...
Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Teheran
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Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Teheran [Tehran], of 21 December 1826. The letter originally gave no addressee but is ‘supposed to be addressed’ to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Sw...
Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 11 February 1827, which was received from the Foreign Office on 10 April 1827. Macdonald Kinneir reports the withdrawal ...
Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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A letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 21 April 1827, which was received from the Foreign Office on 9 July 1827. The letter concerns the ongoing war between...
Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez, to the Governor-General of India, Lord Amherst
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Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Governor-General of India, Lord Amherst, of 8 April 1827. The letter is labelled private and confidential, and concerns the ongoing war between Russia and P...
Copies of Dispatches Nos. 59 and 60 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
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Copies of dispatches Nos. 59 and 60 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton. In dispatch No. 59, of 12 August 1827, Macdonald Kinneir reports the transmission of a letter, ad...
Coll 29/26 'Appointment of officials of Imperial and International Communication Co as consular officers at Jask and Charbar'
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The file concerns consular functions carried out in Persia by officials of the Indo-European Telegraph Department and Imperial and International Communications Limited. The file covers: revised scale of allowances for the performance of political duties by officers of the Indo-European Telegrap...
