‘Translation of a Letter addressed by H.E. Mirza Abul Hassan Khan to His Btc Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs’

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Translation of a letter from the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mirza Abul Hassan Khan [Mirza Abu'l-Hasan Khan Shirazi], to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning. The letter revokes a previous communication from the Persian Government (not included in this item) rejecting the mission of Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir to the Persian Court to serve as East India Company Envoy to Persia, and confirms the Persian Government’s approval and permission for the establishment of the mission.

Included in this document is an additional translation of a letter from Mirza Abul Hassan Khan to Canning entitled ‘Confidential Inclosure in the Persian Secretary’s Letter to the Right Honble George Canning’. This enclosure requests that Macdonald Kinneir should bring with him to Persia a letter from the King of Great Britain to the Persian Government, to assist him in his duties as envoy.

This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3, 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).

Extent and format

1 item (4 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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/9/70/42

History of this record

Date(s)

1825 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Diplomacy

People & organisations

East India Company Envoy to PersiaSecretary of State for Foreign AffairsMinister for Foreign Affairs

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