Copy of a Letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, to the Resident for the Honourable East India Company at Bagdad, Claudius James Rich
IOR/L/PS/9/68/84
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 3 Nov 1810. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Copy of a letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. to Persia [Iran], Sir Harford Jones, to the Resident for the Honourable East India Company at Bagdad [Baghdad], Claudius James Rich, of 3 November 1810. The letter concerns an incident in which solicitations were made at Bagdad to the Persian Governor of Kermanshah, by an unnamed party, for assistance in opposing the rule of the Ottoman Emperor. Jones admonishes Rich for not keeping him informed of the situation, and directs him to communicate an enclosed copy of a firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). (not included in this item, see IOR/L/PS/9/68/85) to the Government of Bagdad concerning the matter.
The letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to the Secret Committee Pre-1784, the Committee responsible for protecting East India Company shipping. Post-1784, its main role was to transmit communications between the Board of Control and the Company's Indian governments on matters requiring secrecy. of the East India Company of 3 November 1810, which was received on 17 March 1810.
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Copy of a Letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, to the Resident for the Honourable East India Company at Bagdad, Claudius James Rich, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/68/84, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x0000e3> [accessed 27 August 2024]
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- Copy of a Letter from HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia, Sir Harford Jones, to the Resident for the Honourable East India Company at Bagdad, Claudius James Rich
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- 1r:2v
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