Copy of Dispatch No. 17 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, at Camp Sultanieh, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning

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Copy of dispatch No. 17 from HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, at Camp Sultanieh [Solţānīyeh], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 1 August 1825. The letter reports Willock’s having obtained from the Shah of Persia a direct and explicit invitation for the approach of the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, to the Persian Court, as requested by the Governor-General of India, Lord Amherst (see IOR/L/PS/9/70/23). The letter also reports the dispatch of a Persian officer to Bombay [Mumbai] to solicit the immediate advance of Macdonald Kinneir’s mission. The letter originally enclosed copies of Willock’s dispatches Nos. 11, 12 and 13 to Lord Amherst (now catalogued respectively as IOR/L/PS/9/70/41, 43 and 44), and a translation of a letter from the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs [Mirza Abu'l-Hasan Khan Shirazi] to Canning, which was originally enclosed with dispatch No. 11 (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/42).

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 1, in Willock’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 10 September 1825 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/39).

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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.

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Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/9/70/40

History of this record

Date(s)

1 Aug 1825 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Diplomacy

People & organisations

HM Chargé d'Affaires to PersiaSecretary of State for Foreign AffairsEast India Company Envoy to Persia

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Copy of Dispatch No. 17 from HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, at Camp Sultanieh, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/70/40, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x0002b7> [accessed 14 July 2026]

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