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
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 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
- Date:
- 1827/1827
- Description:
- Abstract: 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 Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], and announces the return of the Persian envoy Meerza Mohomed Ali [Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Khān Shirāzī] from negotiations at Tiflis [Tbilisi]. Macdonald Kinneir also reports that the Governor-General of Georgia, General Yermoloff [General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov], plans to invade Persia imminently, and his belief that the capture of Erivan [Yerevan] will be a key Russian objective. He details the plans of Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mirza Qājār] to resist the invasion, and indicates that he has received little assistance in his efforts from the Shah.The letter also originally enclosed the following documents:The transcript of a secret dispatch to the Governor-General of India [Lord Amherst]A letter from Meerza Mohomed Ali to the Kaim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām]A letter from General Yermoloff to Abbas MeerzaA letter from General Yermoloff to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abool Hassan Khan [Mirza Abū al-Ḥasan Khan Shīrāzī]A confidential communication from Abbas Meerza to the Sir-e Ashker [Serasker, Governor] of Erzeroon [Erzurum], acquired by Macdonald Kinneir’s secret informants.These documents are now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/215-219.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Letter
- Type (Narrower):
- Letters
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Military campaigns
Russo-Persian War (1826-1828)
Governor-General of Georgia
Crown Prince of Persia, Qajar dynasty - Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000365_ar
81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000365_en
IOR/L/PS/9/70/214
IOR/L/PS/9/70/214