Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Ronald Dugald Harcourt Macdonald, in Zengan, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
IOR/L/PS/9/71/248
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 27 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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Copy of a letter from Lieutenant Ronald Dugald Harcourt Macdonald, in Zengan [Zanjan], to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, of 27 December 1827. Lieutenant Macdonald reports that the Prince [ʿAbbās Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. Qājār, Crown Prince of Persia] has requested that he transport a sum of 50,000-60,000 tomans 10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value. to Tabreez [Tabriz] for safekeeping by Macdonald Kinneir. He indicates that he refused the request, but has forwarded it on to Macdonald Kinneir at the Prince’s asking, having intimated that to do so might potentially ‘give umbrage’ to the Russians.
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1 in enclosure No. 14, 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 16 March 1828 (IOR/L/PS/9/71/201).
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- Copy of a Letter from Lieutenant Ronald Dugald Harcourt Macdonald, in Zengan, to the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir
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- 1r:2v
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