Copy of a Letter from Henry Willock, in London, to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
IOR/L/PS/9/70/167
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 9 Dec 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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Copy of a letter from the former HM Chargé d’Affaires to Persia [Iran], Henry Willock, in London, 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, of 9 December 1826. The letter originally enclosed Willock’s ‘summary of the case of Persia’, with respect to the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828] (not included in this item), in which he has endeavoured to represent the sentiments of the Persian Court. The letter also originally enclosed an extract from Willock’s dispatch No. 19 to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, George Canning, of 4 September 1825 (now catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/70/166), in which is discussed proposals for the mutual occupation of lands on the shores of the lake of Gokcha [Lake Sevan] by Russia and Persia, and which Willock believes to suggest that Russia’s conduct towards Persia has been neither ‘conciliatory nor accommodating’.
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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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- Copy of a Letter from Henry Willock, in London, to the President of the Board of Control, Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn
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- 1r:2v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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