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1. IOR/G/29/24

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/24
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia received from Bassora, 1799-1811
Scope & Content:
Originals and duplicates of correspondence, comprising secret letters, excerpts of reports, schedules, translated letters and transcripts in original languages (Ottoman Turkish and French), in 331 enclosures received from Bassora [Basra, Iraq] and addressed to the Secret Department. Papers relate...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
13 Jan 1799-18 Dec 1811
Extent:
1 volume (767 folios)

2. IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers relating to the first years of the East India Company Residency in Bagdad [Baghdad, also spelled Bagdat in this volume]. The first section (folios 4-153) consists of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798-20 May 1801
Extent:
1 item (511 folios)

3. IOR/G/29/33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/33
Title:
List of Enclosures in the Bengal Secret Letters dated 9th February, 31st March, 3rd May + 6th June 1808, relative to Persia
Scope & Content:
The volume relates to affairs in Persia [Iran] and contains copies of letters, extracts and translations of letters, intelligence reports, and proceedings of Governor-General in Council meetings at Fort William, Calcutta [Kolkata], being enclosures to several despatches sent during the first hal...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
9 Feb 1808-6 Jun 1808
Extent:
1 volume (205 folios)

4. IOR/G/29/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/36
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia to the Secret Department, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises a single packet addressed to the Secret Department, containing transcripts and supplementary duplicate copies of secret letters, excerpts of intelligence reports, itineraries, travel accounts, translated diplomatic letters, treaties, royal edicts or firmaun [farmān], and tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1809-12 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 volume (362 folios)

5. IOR/G/29/38, ff 1-233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 1-233
Title:
French intrigues in Persia and Attempts of the French to acquire the Island of Cameran in the Red Sea
Scope & Content:
The item consists of correspondence and extracts of papers relating to French influence and activities in the Red Sea (often referred to as the ‘Arabian Gulph’) and Persia [Iran], sent to the Chairman of the Court of Directors, Charles Grant, and the Secret Committee. Matters covered include: F...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
23 Sep 1804-14 Jan 1807
Extent:
1 item (233 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/67/117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/117
Title:
Enclosures in Letter No.3 from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia, to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control
Scope & Content:
Enclosures in Letter No. 3 from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated March 1809, consisiting of: A letter from Jones to Lord Minto, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 18 February 1809, reporting Jones’s ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1807-1809
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/67/118

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/118
Title:
Enclosures in Sir Harford Jones's Letter No. 4 to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control
Scope & Content:
Enclosures in Letter No. 4 from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], to Sir Robert Dundas, President of the Board of Control, dated 1809. These consist of copies of letters and enclosures from General Claude-Mathieu Gardane, French Envoy to Persia, to the King [Shah] ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1809
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/68/69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/69
Title:
Enclosure in Sir Harford Jones’s letter of 14 September 1810
Scope & Content:
Extracts from an anonymous letter in French dated 26 May 1810, containing reports from the Court of Russia. The letter reports Russia’s hopes for a swift end to the wars on its southern flank with Turkey [Ottoman Empire] and Persia [Iran]; the expectation of an armistice with Persia and the dema...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
26 May 1810
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/10
Title:
Vol 10 Letters Outward
Scope & Content:
A volume of letters sent outwards. Most of the correspondence is from Nicholas Hankey Smith, Resident at Bushire, mainly to various company officials in India or elsewhere in the Gulf and surrounding regions. Correspondence is also frequently sent to Jaffer Ali Khan [Ja‘afar ‘Alī Khān], the Resi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
3 Nov 1806-6 Dec 1808
Extent:

2 volumes, 314 items (212 folios)