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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 [2v] (4/4)
The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 1 Aug 1825. 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 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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- 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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- 1r:2v
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