A copy of a letter from Gilbert Seton, Bengal Writer, to Samuel Wilks, Clerk to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Aleppo and dated 30 April 1781. Seton describes the progress of his journey to Aleppo towards India and reports on other traveller...
Two copies of a letter from Gilbert Seton, Bengal Writer, to Samuel Wilks, Clerk to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bussora [Basra] and dated 4 June 1781. The letter describes the progress of Seton’s journey from Aleppo to Bussora towards Indi...
A copy of a letter from Lieutenant Richard Tanvarine to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bagdad and dated 12 September 1800. The letter asks Jones to arrange payment for conveying dispatches to England.
A record of the interrogation of an Armenian named Stephan who had recently been in Tiflis [Tblisi] by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], on 8 January 1802. The interrogation relates to the state of affairs in Georgia under Russian occupation, the activities of members of Georgia’s ro...
An extract from an anonymous letter from Bussorah [Basra], dated 31 May 1781. Subjects covered include: The presumed death of a French traveller heading inland from Scanderoon [Iskenderun] The supposed loyalty of local ‘Arabs’ [tribes] to William Digges Latouche, Resident in Bussorah, after he h...