A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Captain Edward Stephenson, former Acting Resident in Bussora, sent from Bussora and dated 6 November 1804. Manesty praises Stephenson’s conduct during his service in Bussora.
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bussora and dated 2 January 1805. The letter concerns the threat to communication between Bussora and India from the Gausemee Arabs [al-Qawāsim], forwarding Manesty’s letter to...
A copy of a letter from Jonathan Henry Lovett, Resident in Bushire [Bushehr], to Hosyn Aly Mirza [Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mīrzā Farmānfarmā, Prince-Governor of Fars], sent from Bushire and dated 30 June 1803. Lovett thanks Hosyn Aly Mirza for an earlier letter.
Tables displaying the naval, cavalry, infantry, and artillery forces available to be mobilised by Soliman Pasha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], with notes on provisions and harvests. This report was collated by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 18 February 1799.
A translated extract of a letter from a Persian [Iranian] merchant in Yezd [Yazd] to Aga Baba [Ḥajī Muḥammad ‘Alī Iṣfahānī], a Persian merchant in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated c 10 March 1799. The letter states that, after gathering a large force in Persia, Shah Zadeh Mahmood [Mahmūd Durrānī] att...
Correspondence regarding Transactions of Cochineal
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This item contains: 1. Extracts and summaries of letters in French, Italian, and Arabic from Constantinople [Istanbul] dated 10 September-30 September 1799, concerning transactions of cochineal involving British-employed ‘Tartars’ [couriers]. 2. Letters from John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, t...
An anonymous letter to the Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bussorah [Basra] and dated 12 March 1791. The author reports that he has arrived in Bussorah and forwarded to India news of negotiations with Spain, and that he intends to depart for Surat the fol...
Extract of a Letter from Peter Tooke to Harford Jones
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An extract of a letter from Peter Tooke, East India Company Agent in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 27 March 1801. The letter concerns a labour shortage of ‘Tartars’ [couriers]. Tooke stresses the need to employ four couriers exclusively for car...
Letters from Harford Jones to Lord Wellesley and Jonathan Duncan
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Copies of letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, and Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bagdad and dated 13 January 1802. Jones forwards correspondence concerning Russian designs on the Caspian Sea and the frontie...
Two letters from John Abbott, Consul in Aleppo, to Peter Michell, Secretary to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Aleppo and dated 21 April and 27 April 1781. The letters concern communication between Aleppo and Bussora [Basra] and forward packets of letters to the Cou...