Dispatch No. 76 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Dispatch No. 76 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Dispatch No. 76 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Dispatch No. 76 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon [Azarshahr], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 10 December 1827. The dispatch originally enclosed a letter to Macdonald Kinneir from his assistant, Dr John McNeill, detailing the secret proposals made to McNeill by ‘men of weight and authority’ in Persia for themselves to be placed under the protection of the British Government (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/143). Macdonald Kinneir also relates that similar proposals have recently been made to him by unnamed notables, which he has rejected.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)