‘Translation of a letter addressed by The Kaim Mukam to General Paskevitch’
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the Kaim Mukam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā’im-Maqām, the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia] to General Paskevitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia]. The Kaim Mukam reports that the Persian Government is desirous of negotiating a peace agreement in the war between Persia [Iran] and Russia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], and announces that the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, intends to send his assistant, Captain John Nicholl Robert Campbell, to General Paskevitch’s camp to propose the opening of peace negotiations.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3, in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 73 to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 1 November 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/84).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)