Folios 153 – 160: Letter from Cecil Spring-Rice to Francis Hyde Villiers concerning: Events in…

Description: Folios 153 - 160: Letter from Cecil Spring-Rice to Francis Hyde Villiers concerning: Events in Tehran including: two attacks by burglars on the Legation, a Russian Bank being robbed, a gentleman refugee in the Legation whose three wives plotted to kill him, denial of an outbreak of the plague at Bushire to save money, the gardens, his colleagues spending time in bed, games on horseback with spears, the Persian financial situation, a colonel who requested a bank loan to pay his regiment to save them from a revolution, the actions of the Russian [Minister] at Ispahan [Isfahan]; French reactions to the plague and requests for British action, German and Russian relations, English relations with Germans, Russians and Persians; Persians hints regarding the British Minister [Sir Henry Mortimer Durand]. Typescript copy of FO 800/23/47.

Date: 27/06/1899

Last import: September 11, 2017