Abstract: A translated copy of a letter from Askar Khan [‘Askar Khān Afshār], Persian Ambassador to France, to Meerza Sheffea [Mīrzā Muḥammad Shafī' Māzandarānī], Prime Minister of Persia [Iran], undated. The letter concerns: Askar Khan’s arrival and reception in Paris; the French reaction to the arrival of a British Envoy [Sir Harford Jones] in Tehran and the conclusion of a peace treaty between Britain and the Porte [Ottoman Empire]; negotiations between France and Russia concerning the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813); and Askar Khan’s opinion of the Emperor of France [Napoleon I].The letter was enclosed in Sir Harford Jones’s letter No. 14 to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 1809.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)