Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp near Ahar, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
IOR/L/PS/9/70/144
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 19 Sep 1826. 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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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp near Ahar, 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 19 September 1826, which was received on 25 November 1826. The letter originally enclosed a memorandum detailing a list of articles which the King of Persia [Shah of Persia, Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār] has requested that Macdonald Kinneir procure for him (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/145).
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- 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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- 19 Sep 1826 (CE, Gregorian)
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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp near Ahar, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/70/144, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x00031f> [accessed 6 October 2024]
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- Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, at the Royal Camp near Ahar, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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- 1r:2v
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