Translation of a Letter from Askar Khan, Persian Ambassador to France, to Meerza Sheffea, Prime Minister of Persia
IOR/L/PS/9/67/129
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 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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A translated copy of a letter from Askar Khan [‘Askar Khān Afshār], Persian Ambassador to France, to Meerza Sheffea [ Mīrzā A title of honour originally applied to princes, later to military leaders, and later still to secretaries, chieftains, and other ‘gentlemen’. Muḥammad Shafī' Māzandarānī], Prime Minister of Persia [Iran], undated. The letter concerns: Askar Khan’s arrival and reception in Paris; the French reaction to the arrival of a British Envoy [Sir Harford Jones] in Tehran and the conclusion of a peace treaty between Britain and the Porte [Ottoman Empire]; negotiations between France and Russia concerning the Russo-Persian War (1804-1813); and Askar Khan’s opinion of the Emperor of France [Napoleon I].
The letter was enclosed in Sir Harford Jones’s letter No. 14 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 1809.
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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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- Ambassador of Persia to FranceNapoleon I
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- Translation of a Letter from Askar Khan, Persian Ambassador to France, to Meerza Sheffea, Prime Minister of Persia
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- 1r:2r
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- Afshār, 'Askar Khān
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- Title
- Translation of a Letter from Askar Khan, Persian Ambassador to France, to Meerza Sheffea, Prime Minister of Persia
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- 2v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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