Abstract: Enclosures in Letter No. 4 from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 1809. These consist of copies of letters and enclosures from General Claude-Mathieu Gardane, French Envoy to Persia, to the King [Shah] of Persia [Fath-'Ali Shāh Qājār] and Mirza Chéfy [Mīrzā Muḥammad Shafī' Māzandarānī], Prime Minister, sent from Tauris [Tabrīz], undated. The letters describe French victories in Spain and Portugal, strong relations between France and Russia, and the threat of insurrection in British-held territories in India, and urge Persia to side with France and expel the British from the country. These letters are written in French.Letters from Hājī Muhammad Husayn Khān Amīn al-Dawlah and Mīrzā Muḥammad Shafī' Māzandarānī to the East India Company, announcing the appointment of Mīrzā Abul Hassan as Persian Ambassador to London. These letters are written in Persian and were presented to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company by the Persian Ambassador on 16 December 1809.Physical description: 1 item (8 folios)
Abstract: Extracts of letters found in the papers of Jean-François Rousseau, French Consul in Bagdad [Baghdad], following his arrest in October 1798, and copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad:An extract of a letter from Marie Louis Henri d’Escorches de Sainte-Croix, Envoy of the French Republic to the Sublime Porte [Ottoman Empire] to Rousseau, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated Year III of the French Revolution (September 1794-September 1795), expressing an interest in trade with Persia [Iran] and asking Rousseau for information on Persia.An extract of letter from Claude Carra Saint-Cyr, First Secretary of the French Embassy to the Porte, to Rousseau, sent from Constantinople and dated 8 Germinal of Year VI of the French Revolution (28 March 1798). The letter concerns journey of Citizen Pierre-Joseph de Beauchamp towards Muscat where he has been appointed Consul, discusses the increased importance of Muscat, and asks to be kept informed of the war between Tipoo Saib [Tīpū Sulṭān of Mysore] and the English [Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, 1798-1799].An extract of a letter from Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French Minister of Foreign Affairs to Rousseau, sent from Paris and dated 27 Vendémiare of Year VI of the French Revolution (17 October 1797). The letter concerns arrangments for French representation in Bussora [Basra].These copies were enclosed in Harford Jones's letter to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, dated 31 October 1798 (IOR/L/PS/9/76/43 and 44).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: The volume contains part 1 of papers from and about the Tehran Sanitary Council (also referred to as the Conseil Sanitaire de l’Empire de Perse). It chiefly comprises copies of the proceedings (in French) of the 99 through to the 127 meetings of the Council, forwarded by the British Ambassador at Tehran (Sir George Head Barclay; Sir Walter Beaupre Townley) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), and then forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the Under-Secretary of State for India.The proceedings detail reports of epidemics (including plague, cholera, malaria) occurring in Persia and its neighbours (including the Persian Gulf, Russia, India), and measures taken to implement quarantine and vaccination measures to prevent their spread. In the reports, recurring mention is made of epidemics in Kermanshah [Kermānshāh], Khorassan [Khorāsān], Bouchir [Bushire] and Astrakhan. Interspersed with the meeting proceedings are copies of British Government correspondence, chiefly in the form of detailed accounts of the meetings, written by Dr Anthony Richard Neligan, physician at the British Legation in Tehran, who attended meetings in his capacity as Doctor of the Legation (Médecins de Légations).The part includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (f 3).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 208; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The volume contains part 2 of papers from and about the Tehran Sanitary Council (also referred to as the Conseil Sanitaire de l’Empire de Perse), and is a direct chronological continuation of File 2612/1912 Pt 1 ‘Tehran Sanitary Council’ (IOR/L/PS/10/283). It chiefly comprises copies of the proceedings (in French) of the 128 through to the 170 meetings of the Council, with some omissions where meetings were of a purely administrative nature. The proceedings were forwarded by the British Ambassador at Tehran (Sir Walter Beaupre Townley; Sir Charles Murray Marling) to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey), and then forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the Under-Secretary of State for India.The proceedings detail reports of epidemics such as plague, cholera and malaria, occurring in Persia, with recurring reports from Bouchir [Bushire], Enzeli [Bandar-e Anzalī], Astara [Shahrestān-e Āstārā]. The proceedings also document the measures taken to implement restrictions of movement, quarantine and vaccination programmes. Also in the file are reports on the proceedings made by Dr Anthony Richard Neligan, physician at the British Legation in Tehran, and the British representative at the meetings of the Tehran Sanitary Council.The part includes a divider which gives the subject and part number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (f 3).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 313; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This volume contains correspondence regarding wide-ranging negotiations that took place between Reza Shah's Minister of Court, ‘Abdolhossein Khan Teymourtache [Teymurtash], and the British Legation in Tehran, the aim of which was the agreement of a bilateral treaty between the British and Persian [Iranian] governments in order to resolve a number of outstanding issues. The majority of the correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of correspondence in French that was exchanged between the British Minister in Tehran, Sir Robert Clive, and Teymourtache.In addition to correspondence, the volume contains the following documents:'Draft Treaty with Persia' (folios 98-113)'Present State of Negotiations with Persia' (folios 124-130)'Previous history of the proposed Treaty of Friendship and Non-aggression Pact to be concluded with the Persian Government' (folios 213-214)'Negotiations with Persia' (folios 251-258)'Persian Complaints of Smuggling in the Persian Gulf' India Office memorandum, 1928 (folio 553).The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 626; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: Copy of a letter from HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, to the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Monsieur de Minciacky, of 8 January 1827 [Old Style]/22 January 1827 [New Style]. The letter responds to two letters addressed to Canning by Minciacky on 19 January 1827 [New Style], concerning the arrest of Honorary Consul Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov] and his companions in Persia [Iran], and a gift from the Emperor of Russia [Tsar Alexander II] to Major William Monteith (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/206-207). Canning states that he will raise both issues with the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1 in No. 42, in Macdonald Kinneir's letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter, in French, from Lieutenant-General Aristoff [Georgii Yevseevich Eristov], in camp at Tauris [Tabriz], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 16 August [possibly October] 1827 [Old Style]/28 August [possibly October] 1827 [New Style]. The letter concerns the Russian occupation of Tauris during the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. Aristoff informs Macdonald Kinneir that a guard has been placed at the British residence in Tauris, and that the houses and property of the British residents in Tauris have been respected.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 11, 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)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky [Matvey Yakovlevich Minchaki], in Constantinople [Istanbul], to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, of 7 January 1827 [Old Style]/ 19 January 1827 [New Style]. The letter transmits a gift of a diamond snuffbox from the Emperor of Russia [Tsar Alexander II] to Major William Monteith, along with a letter of thanks from the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs [Count Karl Robert Nesselrode] in recognition of the assistance Monteith provided to Prince Menchikoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov] during the latter’s imprisonment in Persia [Iran] (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/208).This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in No. 42, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from the Russian Chargé d’Affaires to the Ottoman Empire, Minciacky [Matvey Yakovlevich Minchaki], in Constantinople [Istanbul], to HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Stratford Canning, of 7 January 1827 [Old Style]/ 19 January 1827 [New Style]. The letter asks for the intervention of the British Mission in Tehran in the case of Honorary Consul Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], a representative of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Glass Factory, who has been imprisoned in Persia [Iran] along with his companions while transporting a gift to the Shah. In return Minciacky promises a reward from the Emperor of Russia [Tsar Alexander II].This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in No. 42, in the letter of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the Russian envoy to Persia [Iran], Prince Minchikoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov], in Sultanieh [Solţānīyeh], to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, of 23 July 1826. In the letter, Minchikoff requests that Willock take under his protection the party of Honorary Consul Noskoff [Noskov], who is travelling to Tehran to deliver a crystal couch to the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] as a gift, and to facilitate Noskoff’s return to Russia in the event of war breaking out between Russia and Persia.This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 20 August 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/109).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the Vicomte Desbassayns de Richemont, Commissaire-Ordonnateur (Financial Commissary) of the French Establishments in India and Envoy of the King of France to Persia [Iran], to the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mirza Aboul Wahab [Mīrzā Abdul Wahāb Nishāt Isfahānī], dated 22 Sha’ban 1240 [11 April 1825]. The letter announces Desbassayns’s arrival in Casbin [Qazvin] and his plans to proceed to Tehran to meet the Shah (Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār).This document was originally enclosed in the letter of HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 3 July 1825 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/25).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter in French from Jean Raymond to the Governor-General of the Isle de France [Mauritius] Capitaine Général De Caen [Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen], of 31 January 1809. This letter was part of the papers seized from French courier Jean Robbio at Bushire by Stephen Babington, in charge of the Residency at Bushire (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/60). The letter concerns:The arrival of Sir Harford Jones at Chiraz [Shiraz] and the refusal of the Shah of Persia Fath Ali Shah [Fath-Ali Shah Qajar] and his Grand Vizier [Mirza Muḥammad Shafī‘ Māzandarānī] to treat with himThe difficulties experienced by Raymond in attempting to secure the loyalty of the Governor of Bagdad [Baghdad], Soliman III [Sulayman Pasha]The reception of James Rich [Claudius James Rich] as Resident in Bagdad, and the visit to Bagdad by a party of British military surveyorsSoliman III’s motivations for keeping Bussora [Basra] within Bagdad’s sphere of influence.The letter was enclosed in HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones’s secret letter of 14 September 1810, which was received on 6 February 1811.Physical description: 1 item (5 folios)