Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
Date:
1826/1827
Description:
Abstract: Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tehran, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, of 23 December 1826, which was received from the Foreign Office on 9 March 1827. The letter originally enclosed a copy of Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch to the Governor-General of India of 21 December 1826, and its enclosures, and a translation of a letter from Daoud Khan [Prince Dāvūd Khān Zādūriyān] to the Prince Royal, Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/157-162 and 163). In the letter Macdonald Kinneir also requests that he be sent items such as fine cloth, cutlery, and watches to give as gifts to members of the Persian Court so that he may maintain his influence there.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)