Letter from William Taylor Thompson, HM Chargé d'affaires at the Court of Persia, at Tehran to Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Resident [Political Agent in Turkish Arabia], Baghdad
Letter from William Taylor Thompson, HM Chargé d'affaires at the Court of Persia, at Tehran to Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Resident [Political Agent in Turkish Arabia], Baghdad
Letter from William Taylor Thompson, HM Chargé d'affaires at the Court of Persia, at Tehran to Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Resident [Political Agent in Turkish Arabia], Baghdad
Date:
1853/1853
Description:
The letter is reporting that the hostile attitude of the Government of Persia towards the British has proven short lived; it explains this is because the promises made to the Shah by the Russian Minister were not within his power to make. It notes that in consequence, the Persian Government has made friendly overtures to the Turkish Government.Enclosed with the letter is a communication (in Persian) from the Persian Government to the Ottoman Ambassador, which explains the present state of affairs between Persia and Turkey [Ottoman Empire].3 folios