‘Translation of a letter addressed by Mirza Mohomed Alli to Colonel Macdonald. Envoy.’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- ‘Translation of a letter addressed by Mirza Mohomed Alli to Colonel Macdonald. Envoy.’
- Date:
- 1827/1827
- Description:
- Abstract: Translation of a letter from the Persian envoy, Mirza Mohomed Alli [Muḥammad ʿAlī Shīrāzī], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 20 Rujjub [Rajab] 1242 [17 February 1827]. In the letter Mirza Mohomed Alli announces the arrival of himself and the Russian officer who had delivered a gift of a glass couch to the Shah of Persia, Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], at Erivan [Yerevan], and their kind reception by the Sirdar of Erivan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan]. He also reports the commencement of his journey across the Russo-Persian frontier to Tiflis [Tbilisi], and indicates that the Sirdar of Erivan has dispatched a group of Russian prisoners, who had been travelling with Mirza Mohomed Alli, to Tiflis, accompanied by one of his own servants.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in No. 40, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Letter
- Type (Narrower):
- Letters
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Prisoners of War
Travel - Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000352_ar
81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000352_en
IOR/L/PS/9/70/195
IOR/L/PS/9/70/195