Description

In 1839, the year the First Anglo-Afghan War broke out, the British Foreign Office compiled and published under the authority of the government a volume entitled Correspondence Relating to Persia and Affghanistan. It was a collection of official documents concerning British policy toward these two countries. The documents cover the five-year period immediately preceding the war. The volume includes, for example, dispatches sent to the British foreign secretary, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865), by British diplomats in Saint Petersburg and Teheran; Palmerston’s replies; the texts of treaties concluded by the ...