Abstract: Copy of a letter from the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count [Karl Robert] Nesselrode, in St Petersbourg [St Petersburg], to Major William Monteith, of December 1826. The letter transmits a diamond snuffbox from the Emperor of Russia [Tsar Alexander II] as a gift of thanks to Monteith for his assistance to Prince Menchikoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov] during the latter’s imprisonment in Persia [Iran].This document was originally enclosed, numbered 4 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 bulletin of intelligence from Afghanistan, written in French and dated 9 March 1802.The bulletin relays information from a messenger and merchants in Cabul [Kabul], including: reports that Shugia al Mulk [Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrānī] has taken refuge near Pishaver [Peshawar]; the consolidation of power by Chah Mahmoud [Mahmūd Shāh Durrānī]; the allocation of the governments of Herat and Candahar [Kandahar] to members of Chah Mahmood’s family; the relations of Chah Mahmoud with Fat Ali Chah [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Persia]; and the potential threat from Mir Haydar Chah, Chief of the Eusbeks [Uzbeks] [Amīr Ḥaydar of Bukhara].The bulletin was copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]. Another copy of the bulletin is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/223.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A bulletin concerning events in Afghanistan, written in French, dated Bagdad [Baghdad], 8 November 1802. The bulletin describes a state of calm in Candahar [Kandahar] after the defeat of the Gilgeis [Ghilzai] faction by Chahzadé Kiamran [Kāmrān Durrani] and the activities of Mahmoud Chah [Mahmūd Shāh Durrānī] and Chugial Mulk [Shujā’ al-Mulk Durrānī].Physical description: 1 item (1 folio)