‘Copy of a letter addressed by Lieut. Colonel Macdonald Envoy to H. E. Mirza Abul Hassan Khan. Minister for Foreign Affairs’
Date:
1828/1828
Description:
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mirza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī]. Macdonald Kinneir reports that following news of the arrival of the money intended for payment to Russia as reparations, as stipulated in the peace treaty to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], at Mianna [Mianeh], the Russian General-in-Chief [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] intends to name somewhere near Mianna to meet to sign the peace treaty. Macdonald Kinneir indicates that the General-in-Chief will decide on the location in the next couple of days and will then invite Mirza Abul Hassan Khan and Abbas Mirza [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] to attend the conference.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in enclosure No. 7, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).Physical description: 1 item (1 folio)