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Letters from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia, to James Justinian Morier and Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal [2r] (3/22)
The record is made up of 1 item (11 folios). It was created in 13 Jun 1809. 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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Two copies of letters from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to James Justinian Morier, Secretary to Jones’s mission, and Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Tehran and dated 4 and 9 June 1809. The letters are principally concerned with the discovery of members of the French mission to Persia under General Claude-Mathieu Gardane remaining in Tebreze [Tabrīz], Jones’s suspicions of French and Russian intrigue and fears of a French resurgence at the Court of Persia, and the need to counteract this.
The letters were enclosed in Jones’s letter No. 10 to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control Formally known as the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, it was established by an Act of Parliament in 1784 to supervise the activities of the East India Company. , dated 13 June 1809.
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