‘Translation of a letter from Commandant Chelneff to the Envoy’
IOR/L/PS/9/70/212
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 1827. 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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Translation of a letter from Commandant Chelneff [Chelnev] to the East India Company Envoy to Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald Kinneir. In the letter, Chelneff requests that Macdonald Kinneir communicate to the Prince Royal (Crown Prince of Persia, ʿAbbās Mirza Qājār) his wish to be released from his captivity amongst a group of Russian prisoners of war being held at Geroos [Goris] and be allowed to travel to Tabreez [Tabriz], claiming that he is not himself a prisoner of war but is being held as a hostage. He indicates that he has ‘much to add’ which cannot be written down, the particulars of which he will state to the Prince Royal should he reach Tabreez.
This document was originally enclosed, numbered 3 in No. 43, in Macdonald Kinneir’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 23 March 1827 (IOR/L/PS/9/70/192).
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- 1 item (2 folios)
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- English in Latin script
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- Letter
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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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- IOR/L/PS/9/70/212
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- 1827 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Prisoners of WarRusso-Persian War (1826-1828)
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- East India Company Envoy to Persia
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- IOR/L/PS/9/70/212
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- ‘Translation of a letter from Commandant Chelneff to the Envoy’
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- 1r:2v
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- Chelnev, Commandant
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