Abstract: Copy of a letter from HM Ambassador to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, in Tabriz, to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and the Court of Directors of the East India Company, of 15 July 1813, which was received on 11 January 1814. The letter encloses a firman [order] and its translation (not included in this item, see IOR/L/PS/9/68/138-139), from the Shah of Persia, concerning the delivery of a present of China porcelain to the Shah from the Company. The letter also concerns a financial transaction for the purchase of some articles in London on behalf of the Shah.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in camp at Sultanieh [Solţānīyeh], to the Russian envoy to Persia, Major General Prince Minchikoff [Prince Aleksandr Sergeevich Menshikov], of 23 July 1826. The letter is in reply to Minchikoff’s letter requesting that Willock offer his protection to Noskoff [Noskov] and his party, who are travelling to Tehran to deliver a gift of a glass couch to the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] (see IOR/L/PS/9/70/112). Willock assures Minchikoff that he will place under his protection Noskoff and his party, and also all Russian subjects remaining in 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: 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: A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Tabriz and dated 27 April 1822.The letter concerns the transportation of chandeliers from Bushire [Būshehr] to Tehran as presents for the Shah [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], under the supervision of Mr Edward James Matthews.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
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)