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301. IOR/L/PS/9/76/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/104
Title:
Letter from Lord Elgin to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 21 December 1799. Elgin notifies Jones that he is dispensing with the use of cyphers in his communications with India. A dupli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

302. IOR/L/PS/9/76/109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/109
Title:
Letter from John Malcolm to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Captain John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Abu Sheher [Bushehr] and dated 17 March 1800. The letter responds to the news reported by Jones in his letter of 3 March (IOR/L/PS/9/...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Mar 1800
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

303. IOR/L/PS/9/76/124

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/124
Title:
Letter from J A Grant to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from J A Grant, Sub-Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 11 April 1800. The letter informs Jones that a Hungarian doctor expelled from India is being sent to Bussora [Basra]. Grant a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1800
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

304. IOR/L/PS/9/76/125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/125
Title:
Letter from Henry Fawcett to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Henry Fawcett, Accountant-General and Civil Auditor of the Government of Bombay, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 16 April 1800. The letter reports the audit of Jones’s accounts for the period July-October 1799, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1800
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

305. IOR/L/PS/9/76/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/193
Title:
Letter from Sulayman Pasha to David Scott
Scope & Content:
A letter in Farsi from the Pasha of Bagdad [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] to David Scott, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The letter expresses friendship, acknowledges receipt of a letter, and forwards various correspondence.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
c 1801
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

306. IOR/L/PS/9/76/195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/195
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Peter Tooke
Scope & Content:
1. ‘Notes’, anonymous and undated (probably written by Harford Jones, Resident in Baghdad), concerning the activities of the French physician Outry and his suspected influence over the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad]. Another copy of this document can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1801
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

307. IOR/L/PS/9/76/219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/219
Title:
Letters between Harford Jones and James Short
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between James Short, Surgeon at the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency, and Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, dated 7-9 February 1802. The correspondence concerns two Jewish residents of Bagdad who were suspected to have contracted plague. The correspondence was enclosed in Jones’s let...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1802-9 Feb 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

308. IOR/L/PS/9/76/265

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/265
Title:
Letters from Meerza Bozurg to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Translations of two letters from Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā ‘Īsá Khān Farāhānī, Vizier to the Crown Prince of Persia] to Harford Jones, received 27 October 1802. The letters principally concern French overtures to Persia [Iran], stating that a French envoy to the Court of Persia who proposed joint ac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Oct 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

309. IOR/L/PS/9/76/276

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/276
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Alexander Stratton
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Alexander Stratton, HM Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 23 September 1802. The letter concerns events in Bagdad since the death of the Pasha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā], the issue of suc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

310. IOR/L/PS/9/76/292

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/292
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Meerza Bozurg
Scope & Content:
Translations of two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā ‘Īsá Khān Farāhānī], Vizier to the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], dated 5 Rejeb [Rajab]/31 October 1802. The letters express friendship towards Persia and regret concerning the death of Hajee K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)