Translations of Two Letters from Meerza Abul Hassan Khan to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Date:
1827/1827
Description:
Abstract: Translations of two letters from Meerza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, the Foreign Minister of Persia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. The letters concern the payment of reparations by Persia as part of the peace agreement to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. In the first letter (IOR/L/PS/9/71/165 (1)), Meerza Abul Hassan Khan comments on the fact that he has received no reply to his previous letters to Macdonald Kinneir, and also indicates that Dr John McNeill is preparing a payment of five crores of tomans [Persian currency] to Russia.In the second letter (IOR/L/PS/9/71/165 (2)), Meerza Abul Hassan Khan reports that he has begun his journey to Azerbijan [Azerbaijan] with the money for the ‘final settlement of Peace’, and has met with a Russian representative, who has seen the money and ‘accomplished the end for which his journey was intended’.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 9 in 79, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 10 January 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/154).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)