IOR/L/PS/5/483, ff 38-150

This item is comprised of copies of secret letters, despatches, memoranda, translations of letters, and intelligence reports relating to events in Persia [Iran].

Topics discussed include:

• Correspondence with the Sedr Azim [Ṣadr-i Aʿẓam] about investigations with the authorities at Fao concerning the landing of enslaved people in the ship Mahmoodee
• A letter of congratulations that the Shah had changed the title of the Sedr Azim from Excellency to Altesse (Highness) and the decoration of the order of Nooeean [Nuian]
• Arrangements for a pension for the widow of Mr Reed who was the confidential clerk and accountant to the Tehran Mission
• Letters from the Political Agent, Meshed [Mashhad] (translated by Ronald F Thomson), concerning meetings in Meshed to persuade the Ruler of Herat to form a contract
• Outbreak of cholera in Meshed and its dissemination to Tehran by pilgrims returning from Meshed
• Translation of the articles of a secret treaty of friendship (ff 126-127) said to have been negotiated at Tehran between Nicolai Anilchkoff [Anichkov] and the Persian Government, concerning relations between Persia and Russia and other powers
• Correspondence between Taylour Thomson, HM Consul, Tehran, and the Sedr Azim concerning the attitude of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Persia to requests made by the head of the British delegation.
• Translation from a letter written by Cazee Mahomed of Herat, a native of Punjab, residing in Meshed, to the Russian Minister at Tehran.

Correspondents include: Taylour Thomson, HM Envoy and Charge d'Affaires, Tehran; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London; Political Agent, Meshed; Political Agent, Asterabad [Astarabad, i.e. Gorgān]; Captain Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Political Resident, Persian Gulf; H L Anderson, Secretary to Government, Bombay [Mumbai]; the Sedr Azim.