Talk:Newspaper coverage of the Attempt on the life of the Shah

Original letter dated 29 August 1852 was published in German in Oesterreichischer Soldatenfruend, 12 October 1852, vol. 123, p. 514

More info: He wrote some three letters across a few months. The first describes his journey to Persia (with Dr. Polak and a first lieutenant, and his wife) through Anatolia is in No. 24, 24 February 1851 (pp. 99-101)[screening for a mix up between no 24 and 25, stay tuned.] The second recounts the assassination attempt on the life of the Shah but does not mention the Babis, at [1] was in No. 121, written 20 August 1852 in Tehran and published 7 October 1852 (pp. 505-506) and continued at [2] in No. 122, 9 October 1852 (pp. 509-510). You are referring to the last letter written 29 August 1852, published on 12 October 1852 in the Austrian military journal, "(I can't make out the title - "Hud Berlien."?", Oesterreichischer Soldatenfreund - Zeitschrift für militärische Interessen, 5th year, No. 123, p. 513, by Captain Gr.B.1164 Porträt: Goumoëns, Alfred von, an Austrian working in Tihran. A translation of some of it was posted. It would indeed be worthwhile to incorporate references to these accounts. A recounting in Persian was done at [https://news.gooya.com/2017/06/post-4766.php ناصرالدین شاه و شاهدِ اروپائیِ قتلِ عامِ بابی ها در تابستانِ ۱۸۵۲ میلادی در بازارِ تهران،

by بیژن معصومیان, Jun 19, 2017] and [3]. He seems to have quit his job over witnessing the awfulness of what happened.Smkolins (talk) 04:46, 1 July 2020 (PDT)