‘Translation of a letter from Meerza Abool Hussan Khan Minister for Foreign Affairs to Colonel Macdonald Envoy’

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Translation of a letter from the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Meerza Abool Hussan Khan [ Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. Abū al-Ḥasan Khān Shīrāzī], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. Meerza Abool Hussan Khan indicates that the King [Shāh of Persia, Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār] has directed him to report the recent Persian victory over Russia near Eutch Keleesia [an Armenian religious site, possibly at present-day Vagharshapat] to Macdonald Kinneir, enclosing a letter from the Prince Royal [Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. Qājār] on the subject (not included in this item). He also requests that Macdonald Kinneir send his assistant, Dr John McNeill, to the King’s camp to give medical aid to one of his wives, the Tauj oo Dowleh [Ṭāvūs Khānom, Tāj al-Dawlah].

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 4 in dispatch No. 64, in Macdonald Kinneir’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 5 September 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/38). This document also includes a note indicating that enclosure No. 5 in dispatch No. 64, from the Moatumud oo Dowleh [ Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb Nishāṭ Iṣfahānī, Mu‘tamid al-Dawlah] is to the same effect.

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1 item (2 folios)

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Letter

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/9/71/45

History of this record

Date(s)

Aug 1827-Sep 1827 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

BattlesRusso-Persian War (1826-1828)

People & organisations

East India Company Envoy to PersiaMinister for Foreign Affairs

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