Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp near Aher, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
IOR/L/PS/9/70/146
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The record is made up of 1 item (4 folios). It was created in 19 Sep 1826. 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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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp near Aher [Ahar], 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 19 September 1826, which was received on 25 November 1826. The letter reports the wish of the Shah of Persia [Fath-‘Ali Shāh Qājār], as per treaty arrangements between Britain and Persia, to seek mediation from Britain in the war that has broken out between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], and to seek a subsidy from the East India Company. Macdonald Kinneir indicates that he has secured an agreement from the Shah to avoid the dispatch of an ambassador by Persia to Britain by sending the former HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, to represent the Shah’s wishes to the British Government in London, and indicates that he believes that Persia has ‘strong arguments’ in support of its claim for subsidy.
The letter originally enclosed copies of letters from Macdonald Kinneir to the 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. , Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, and to Willock (catalogued respectively as IOR/L/PS/9/70/147 and 148).
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Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp near Aher, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/9/70/146, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100038378586.0x000321> [accessed 12 July 2026]
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- Letter from the East India Company Envoy to Persia, Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir, in camp near Aher, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company
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