Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, former Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 21 January 1812. The letter responds to the Secret Committee’s request for an explanation from Jones regarding a statement to the Supreme Government of India that he was not instructed to forward his dispatches to the Secret Committee via Calcutta [Kolkata].Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)