Copy of a Letter from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal
Date:
1808/1808
Description:
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal. The letter concerns the question of whether or not Jones should immediately depart from Bombay [Mumbai] for Persia in order to commence negotiations with Persian ministers, in view of Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia, most likely arriving in Persia before himself.The letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, of 2 June 1808, and was received in December 1808.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)