Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Ronald Dugald Harcourt Macdonald, in Casween, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Ronald Dugald Harcourt Macdonald, in Casween, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Ronald Dugald Harcourt Macdonald, in Casween, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
Date:
1828/1828
Description:
Abstract: Copy of a letter from Lieutenant Ronald Dugald Harcourt Macdonald, in Casween [Qazvin], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 26 January 1828. The letter concerns the payment of reparations to Russia as part of the peace treaty negotiated to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. Lieutenant Macdonald reports his imminent departure for Tabreez [Tabriz] accompanying the sum of three crores of tomans, which is to be kept for safekeeping by Macdonald Kinneir until it should be paid to Russia. He gives details of the plan for the transport of the money, and other attendant matters, and also indicates that two crores will remain at Casween, as transport measures have not yet been prepared for them.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in enclosure No. 14, 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 (2 folios)