Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 40 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Supreme Government of India, George Swinton, of 15 March 1827. The letter originally enclosed letters concerning the passage of the Russian officer Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov] and Meerza Mohomed Ali [Mirza Muḥammad ʿAlī Khan Shīrāzī] over the frontier between Persia and Russia (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/194-196); a letter from the former Russian Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Mazarowitch [Semyon Mazarovich], to the Sirdar of Erivan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan] offering Russian protection (IOR/L/PS/9/70/197); a letter from the Governor-General of Georgia to the Sirdar of Erivan (IOR/L/PS/9/70/198); and correspondence between Macdonald Kinneir and the Sirdar of Erivan (IOR/L/PS/9/70/199-200). In the letter, Macdonald Kinneir reports that the Russian armies in Georgia and Karabaug [Karabakh] have gone into winter quarters, and his expectation that hostilities between Russia and Persia should resume in May or June. He also details the secret deal between Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mirza Qājār] and the Pasha of Erzeroon [Erzurum] for the supply of military stores to Persia, and the apprehensions of the ‘Turks’ [Ottomans] at the possibility of the Russian capture of Erivan.This document was originally enclosed 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)