Dispatch No. 76 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
IOR/L/PS/9/71/142
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 10 Dec 1827. 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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Dispatch No. 76 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon [Azarshahr], to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, of 10 December 1827. The dispatch originally enclosed a letter to Macdonald Kinneir from his assistant, Dr John McNeill, detailing the secret proposals made to McNeill by ‘men of weight and authority’ in Persia for themselves to be placed under the protection of the British Government (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/71/143). Macdonald Kinneir also relates that similar proposals have recently been made to him by unnamed notables, which he has rejected.
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Dispatch No. 76 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/71/142, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000404> [accessed 2 October 2024]
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- Dispatch No. 76 from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in Deheraghon, to the Chief Secretary to the Government of India, George Swinton
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