Abstract: Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia, the Kaim Mukam [Mirza Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qāʾim-Maqām]. In the letter, Macdonald Kinneir appeals for the good treatment and provision of better accommodation for a group of Russian officers being held as prisoners of war by the Crown Prince, Abbas Meerza [ʿAbbās Mirza Qājār], particularly on account of possible peace negotiations between Russia and Persia.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1 in No. 43, 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 (1 folio)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Mirza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Foreign Minister of Persia] of 7 January 1828. Macdonald Kinneir exhorts Mirza Abul Hassan Khan to ensure that the money intended for payment to Russia as part of the agreement of peace in the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] be delivered to Russian guards at Meeana [Mianeh], and for the money not to be delayed at Zunjan [Zanjan]. He discusses the arrangements for the payment and indicates that he has sent a relation of his, Lieutenant Macdonald, to escort the money in order to reassure the Persian Government that no danger will be posed to it by the Russian soldiers.This letter was originally enclosed, numbered 13 in dispatch No. 79, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 21 January 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/154).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to Manoocher Khan [Manūchihr Khān Gurjī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah]. The letter is a duplicate of another letter sent to Meerza Abul Kassim, the Kaim Makam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā’im-Maqām]. Macdonald Kinneir acknowledges the receipt of Manoocher Khan’s letter reporting the movement of instalments of the reparations to be paid to Russia as part of the peace treaty negotiated to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. He reports that the Russian General-in-Chief [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] has indicated that he will not take less than six and a half crores of tomans in payment, and urges the swift transport of the remaining money from Zinjan [Zanjan]. He also reports that Turkomanshahee [Turkamanchay] has been nominated as the location for the signature of the peace treaty.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in enclosure No. 12, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Sardar of Erivan, Hassan Khan Sardar [Ḥasan Qulī Khān Qājār, Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan]. Macdonald Kinneir reports that the information regarding the arrival of reparations payments from Persia to Russia at Mianna [Mianeh] given in Hassan Khan Sardar’s previous letter (IOR/L/PS/9/71/246) has proved incorrect, leaving General Paskewitch [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia] ‘much displeased’. He indicates that once the first instalment of the money has reached Mianna, the Russian troops there will evacuate that place, and that a location will be fixed for the conclusion of the peace treaty to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] with the Prince Royal [ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia].This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in enclosure No. 13, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).Physical description: 1 item (1 folio)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated Jamadi Esenni [Jumādá al-Thānīyah AH 1243] or December [1827]. The letter concerns the payment of reparations by Persia to Russia as part of the peace agreement to end the ongoing war [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. The Shah reports that he has entrusted three crores of Tomauns [tomans] to Macdonald Kinneir’s assistant, Dr John McNeill, to be conveyed to the former, and that he has entrusted the ‘remaining’ money to one of his agents for delivery to Cazween [Qazvin]. He also discusses the instructions he has given to Meerza Abool Hussan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Foreign Minister of Persia] regarding the conclusion of the peace agreement and indicates that the Russian agent responsible for overseeing the payments, Captain Volxcoffski [Vladimir Dmitriyevich Volkhovsky], has left Tehraun [Tehran].This document was originally enclosed, numbered 2 in enclosure No. 4, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the Shah of Persia [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. In the letter the Shah praises Macdonald Kinneir for his ‘zeal and attachment to our person and our government’. He also indicates that he has sent the Kaim Makam [Mīrzā Abū al-Qāsim Farāhānī, Qā'im-Maqām, the Vizier of the Crown Prince of Persia] to meet Macdonald Kinneir at Tabreez [Tabriz], to where the latter is returning and where Mirza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Foreign Minister of Persia] has already arrived, and instructs Macdonald Kinneir to conclude the agreement of peace in the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] in a satisfactory manner.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 7 in enclosure No. 4, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from Hussan Khan Sirdar [Ḥasan Qulī Khān Qājār] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, dated 8 Ṣafar [AH 1243] [31 August 1827]. Hussan Khan Sirdar reports the victory won by the Heir Apparent [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] and Hoossein Khan, the Sirdar of Erivan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan, Ḥusayn Qulī Khān Qājār], over the Russians (see IOR/L/PS/9/71/39). He also requests that Macdonald Kinneir provide him with a portable spyglass, as the one that he had previously given him has broken.The letter also includes a note, presumably added by the translator, clarifying the names of the two brothers, Hoossein Khan and Hussan Khan. It indicates that Hoossein Khan is the Sirdar of Erivan, who had remained inside Erivan during the recent Russian siege of the city, and that Hussan Khan, his younger brother, had commanded troops outside of the city.This document was originally enclosed, in dispatch No. 63, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 5 September 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/38).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the Sirdar of Erivan, Hoossein Khan [Sardar of Iravan or Yerevan, Ḥusayn Qulī Khan Qājār], to Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār]. The letter concerns military operations in the khanate of Erivan [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], detailing the advance of Russian forces towards Erivan and the battles fought between Russian and Persian [Iranian] troops, including details of the numbers of troops involved and casualties sustained.This document was originally enclosed 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 14 May 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/227).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from Mirza Abul Hassan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī, Foreign Minister of Persia] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 24 Rejib [24 Rajab AH 1243 or 10 February 1828]. Mirza Abul Hassan Khan discusses the transmission of the money intended for payment to Russia as part of the peace treaty to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828]. He also indicates that he has been directed to return to Aderbijan [Azerbaijan] to conclude peace with the Russian General-in-Chief [General Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich-Erivansky, Governor-General of Georgia], giving details of his planned journey.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 5 in enclosure No. 7, in Macdonald Kinneir’s letter to the Secret Committee of the East India Company of 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from the Persian [Iranian] Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abul Hussan Khan [Mīrzā Abū al-Ḥasan Khan Shīrāzī], to the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Count Nessolrode [Count Karl Robert Nesselrode]. In the letter, Meerza Abul Hussan Khan give his thanks for the receipt of a crystal couch as a gift for the Shah of Persia, and reports the imminent return of the bearer of the gift, Mr Noskoff [Ivan Fyodorovich Noskov], to Russia. The letter also reports that the Shah has released a group of Russian prisoners held in Tehran, who will be sent to Tiflis [Tbilisi] accompanied by Meerza Mahomed Ali [Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Khan Shīrāzī], and indicates that the Persian Government wishes to send an ambassador to the Russian Government to clarify the role of the Russian ‘frontier authorities’ in the outbreak of the ongoing war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828].This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in enclosure No. 1, 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 December 1826 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/156).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from Prince Abbas Mirza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] to Prince Metternick [Chancellor and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire, Prince Klemens von Metternich]. In the letter, Abbas Mirza details the circumstances leading to the outbreak of the ongoing war between Persia [Iran] and Russia in the Caucasus [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], suggesting that Metternick might have received erroneous reports about the conflict from Russian sources. He alleges sustained Russian encroachments on Persian territory, based upon false pretences, and argues that Persia was forced to retaliate when attempts to seek redress failed and Russia continued to make encroachments. He indicates that Persia had been unwilling to go to war and had only done so to protect itself, and states that Persia would be willing to negotiate for peace.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 5, 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 22 June 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/1).Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: Translation of a letter from Prince Abbas Meerza [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā Qājār] to the French Ambassador to the Sublime Porte [Ottoman Empire], Armand Charles Guillemont. In the letter, Abbas Meerza details the circumstances leading to the outbreak of the ongoing war between Persia [Iran] and Russia in the Caucasus [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], alleging sustained Russian encroachments upon Persian territory and detailing the failure of Persia to receive redress from the Russian Government. Abbas Meerza indicates that the Persian Government did not want to go to war, but had no choice other than that of ‘seizing what was justly their own’.This document was originally enclosed, numbered 4, 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 22 June 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/1).Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)