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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora, to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Maghil [Al Ma’qil] and dated 14 May 1803. The letter forwards extracts of letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Manesty and Marquess Wellesley, dated ...
A copy of a letter from Robert Rickards, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 28 February 1801. The letter reprimands Manesty for charging a high price to the East India Company for the conveyance of ma...
A copy of a letter from Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], received 16 September 1802. The letter concerns Manesty’s conduct in chartering a ship owned by himself to carry dispatches to India at the East India Company’s expense.
A translation of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad], dated 12 October 1804. The letter concerns a dispute between Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdat [Baghdad], and Coja Johannes Rafail Babick [Khawājah Hovhannes Raf...