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IOR/L/PS/9/70/157
- Record Id:
- 041-003357105
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544463
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x00032c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100128059117.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/70/157
- Title:
- Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Teheran
- Scope & Content:
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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 Swinton. The letter details Macdonald Kinneir's communications with the Prince Royal, Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār], the Shah of Persia [Fath-'Ali Shāh Qājār], and senior Persian ministers concerning proposals for the dispatch of the Persian Foreign Minister, Meerza Abool Hussan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī] to St Petersburgh [St Petersburg] to negotiate peace with Russia in the Caucasus [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. The letter details Abbas Meerza's willingness to send an ambassador, and reports the Shah's decision to send Meerza Mahomed Ali [Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Shīrāzī] to St Petersburgh as a precursor to a mission by Meerza Abool Hussan Khan. Macdonald Kinneir also gives his reasons for recommending Meerza Abool Hussan Khan as ambassador, and details the discussion of other matters concerning the war between Russia and Persia, including Russian preparations for a renewed offensive and Abbas Meerza's military situation, the possibility of Britain making subsidy payments to Persia, the diplomatic mission of Daoud Khan [Prince Dāvūd Khān Zādūriyān] to Constantinople [Istanbul], and the mission of Mr Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov]. The letter also originally enclosed:
- A memorandum of a conference between Macdonald Kinneir's assistant, John McNeill, and Abbas Meerza
- The transcript of a letter from Abbas Meerza to Archduke Constantine [Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia]
- Translations of two documents given to Meerza Mahomed Ali for his mission to St Petersburgh
- A letter from Major William Monteith to Macdonald Kinneir.
These documents are now catalogued, numbered 1-5, as IOR/L/PS/9/70/158-162.
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Macdonald Kinneir's letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 December 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/156).
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544463
037-000544535
040-003356948
041-003357105 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/9 : Correspondence relating to areas outside India
IOR/L/PS/9/67-78 : Secret Letters and Enclosures from Persia, Iraq, Syria, etc.
IOR/L/PS/9/70 : Letters from Persia
IOR/L/PS/9/70/157 : Copy of a Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Teheran - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0009]/036-000544463[0005]/037-000544535[0004]/040-003356948[0157]/041-003357105
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (12 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x00032c
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1826
- End Date:
- 1826
- Date Range:
- 21 Dec 1826
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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