Abstract: Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to the British Government of India's Envoy to Persia, Brigadier-General Sir John Malcolm, of 22 July 1810. In the letter Jones makes recommendations for military personnel and artificers to be sent for the provision of military assistance to Persia. Jones also requests that a medical practitioner and a Persian linguist be sent to assist his own Mission.The letter was enclosed in Jones's secret letter of 24 July 1810, which was received on 21 November 1810.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to the Grand Vizier of the Shah of Persia, Meersa Sheffee [Mirza Muḥammad Shafī‘ Māzandarānī], of 22 August 1810. The letter relates to correspondence between the Persian Ambassador to France, Askar Khan [Askar Khan Afshar], and the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia, Mirza Buzurg (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/75). In the letter, Jones draws Meersa Sheffee’s attention to the fact that Askar Khan continues to act in his capacity as ambassador in France, in spite of the signature of the Preliminary Treaty between Persia and Britain, and requests that Askar Khan be recalled from Paris on the basis of the Anglo-Persian alliance.The letter was enclosed in Jones’s secret letter of 14 September 1810, which was received on 6 February 1811Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter, numbered 2, from HM Ministers to Persia [Iran], James Morier and Henry Ellis, at Tebreez [Tabriz], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 18 October 1814. In the letter, Morier and Ellis attribute their delay in reaching Tehran as to their mission and escort being waylaid by fever. The letter also reports their decision to conceal from the Persians the aims of their mission to Persia until their arrival at Tehran, and the impatience of the Crown Prince of Persia, Abbas Mirza, to discuss matters relating to the Anglo-Persian alliance, and his willingness to maintain Anglo-Persian friendship.The letter was enclosed in Morier and Ellis’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 30 November 1814 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/158), which was delivered by Ellis on 13 March 1815.Physical description: 1 item (2 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)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 9 April 1810, concerning the mission of Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran]. The letter criticises Jones for not keeping the Government of Bengal and the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors informed of his mission, in particular his expenditure.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A letter from the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 30 January 1810. The letter recommends informing other members of the Court of Directors and the Governor-General of Bengal of the present state of treaty negotiations with Persia [Iran].Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 10 March 1810. The letter requests permission to inform other members of the Court of Directors of the present state of treaty negotiations with Persia [Iran].Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Charles Grant, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, to Mirza Shafeea [Mīrzā Muḥammad Shafī' Māzandarānī], Prime Minister of Persia [Iran], sent from London and dated 21 March 1810. The letter concerns the arrival of Mirza Abu’l Hasan [Mīrzā Abul Hassan], Persian Ambassador, in London to conduct treaty negotiations, and expresses hope for stronger political and commercial relations between Persia and Britain.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Charles Grant, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, to Hosein Mahommed [Ḥājī Muḥammad Ḥossein Khān Amīn al-Dawlah], Persian Minister, sent from London and dated 21 March 1810. The letter concerns the arrival of Mirza Abu’l Hasan [Mīrzā Abul Hassan], Persian Ambassador, in London to conduct treaty negotiations, and expresses hope for stronger political and commercial relations between Persia and Britain.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Sir Robert Adair, British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to Earl Bathurst, President of the Board of Trade, sent from Pera [Beyoğlu] and dated 10 January 1810. The letter commends Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], for his efforts in preventing the formation of a Franco-Persian alliance, and describes the effects of this on Britain’s relations with Turkey [Ottoman Empire] and position in the region in relation to France.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp near Aher [Ahar], to the former HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, of 18 September 1826. In the letter Macdonald Kinneir gives Willock instructions for his mission to England to represent the Shah of Persia’s requests for British mediation in the war between Russia and Persia (Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828) and the payment of a subsidy by the East India Company (see IOR/L/PS/9/70/146).This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 19 September 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/146).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Bushire [Bushehr], to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, of 11 April 1826. The letter announces Macdonald Kinneir’s arrival at Bushire and his intention of proceeding to Tehran as soon as practicable. The letter originally enclosed replies from Macdonald Kinneir to the Prince Royal of Persia [Crown Prince of Persia, 'Abbās Mīrzā Qājār] and various Persian ministers (not included in this item), which Macdonald Kinneir requests that Willock deliver.This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 20 May 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/84).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)