Abstract: The translation of a letter from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Persia [Iran], Mirza Abul Hussun Khan [Mirza Abu'l-Hasan Khan Shirazi], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 24 May 1826. In the letter Mirza Abul Hussun Khan reiterates that the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] had awarded the Order of the Lion and the Sun to HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, for his services to the Persian army, and indicates the Shah’s and his own approbation for Willock’s conduct, upon Willock’s replacement by the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir.This document was originally enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 28 August 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/120).Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a Firmaun [firman, a letter or order] from the Shāh of Persia [Iran], Futtey Ali Shah [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated Suffr [Safar] 1242 [September 1826]. Futtey Ali Shah acknowledges the receipt of Macdonald Kinneir’s ‘congratulatory address’ (not included in this item), and announces his conferral of the first class of the Order of the Lion and the Sun upon Macdonald Kinneir as a token of his favour.This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 26 to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 5 November 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/72).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: The file concerns the award to Saiyid Said bin Saiyid Taimur [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr], Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and others in Muscat and Oman, of the Silver Jubilee medal to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the coronation of King George V. The papers also concern the holding of durbars to celebrate the occasion, and the issue by the Viceroy and Governor-General of India of a
Kharita(official letter) to the Sultan.The file contains correspondence from the Political Agent, Muscat, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Government of India.The Arabic content of the file consists of the text of the Arabic version of the
Kharita(folio 42), and correspondence from the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, with some English translations.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 68; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-67; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence between ff 52-67, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 40A
Abstract: A copy of a letter in French from Comte Jean Paskevitch d’Erivan [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, sent from Tiflis [Tblisi] and dated 5 May 1828.Paskevitch thanks the British Mission in Persia for their good offices in the recent peace negotiations between Russia and Persia and presents Macdonald Kinneir and other members of the British Mission with decorations and gifts from the Emperor [Tsar] of Russia.This document was originally enclosed in dispatch No. 101, in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 36 to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company of 5 October 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/253).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of dispatch No. 69 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Tabreez [Tabriz], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 5 October 1827. Macdonald Kinneir reports that he has been awarded the first class of the Order of the Lion and the Sun by the King of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Persia]. He states that he could not refuse the award without displeasing the King, and indicates that he will send the medal to Calcutta [Kolkata] to be sold for the public purse. Originally enclosed with this letter was a translation of the Firmaun [firman, a letter or order] conferring the award (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/74).This document was originally enclosed in Macdonald Kinneir’s dispatch No. 26 to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 5 November 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/72).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Copy of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran], to Sir George Barlow, Governor of Madras, dated 4 April 1810. The letter reports the presentation of a sabre to Lieutenant Henry Willock, and the bestowal of the Order of the Sun [Order of the Lion and the Sun] upon two other members of the escort of HM Mission to the Court of Tohran [Tehran] by the Prince Royal [Crown Prince of Persia], Abbas Mirza.The letter was enclosed in Jones's letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company of 30 May 1810, and was received on 4 October 1810.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from a Royal camp near Tabreez [Tabrīz] and dated 16 July 1810. The letter covers: the appointment of Sir Gore Ouseley as Ambassador to Persia and Malcolm’s plans to leave the country; the King [Shah] of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār]’s request that Malcolm remain and join a campaign in Georgia; the honours conferred on Malcolm by the King; and Malcolm’s reflections on his mission.Physical description: 1 item (6 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from a Royal camp near Tabreez [Tabrīz] and dated 15 July 1810. The letter covers: the appointment of Sir Gore Ouseley as Ambassador to Persia and Malcolm’s plans to leave the country; the King [Shah] of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār]’s request that Malcolm remain and join a campaign in Georgia; the honours conferred on Malcolm by the King; and Malcolm’s reflections on his mission.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)