Copy of a Letter from Major William Monteith to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Copy of a Letter from Major William Monteith to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
- Date:
- 1826/1826
- Description:
- Abstract: Copy of a letter from Major William Monteith to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 24 November 1826. The letter concerns allegations made against Monteith by General Yermoloff [Governor-General of Georgia, General Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov]. Monteith refutes the allegations that he had recently been commanding the Persian artillery, and that he had been acting as a spy in Georgia, and indicates that he does not know why Yermoloff has made the allegations. He explains that he had actually been on a mission to secure the release and safe passage of the mission of the Russian envoy, Prince Menchikoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov], out of Persia; that his erstwhile presence on the frontier between Russia and Persia had been to carry out a survey of the frontier; and that time that he had spent in Tiflis [Tbilisi] had been due to poor health.Also included is a copy of a letter, in French, from Menchikoff to Monteith, of 27 September 1826, in which he offers his thanks for Monteith's assistance.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 5 in enclosure No. 1, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 December 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/156).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Letter
- Type (Narrower):
- Letters
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Allegations
Governor-General of Georgia - Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000331_ar
81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000331_en
IOR/L/PS/9/70/162
IOR/L/PS/9/70/162