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1. IOR/G/29/31

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/31
Title:
Letters and Enclosures from Sir Harford Jones (Envoy to Persia) to Mr Dundas (President of the India Board), Dated 11th January 1809 to 28th July 1810, Vol: 3.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of correspondence, firmans, and other documents relating to Sir Harford Jones's diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran], 1807-1811. Much of the volume consists of updates from Jones sent from Schyras [Shiraz, also written Sheerauz in this volume], Tahran [Tehran], and Tau...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
11 Jan 1809-28 Jul 1810
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

2. IOR/G/29/32, ff 1-478

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 1-478
Title:
Letters from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
Copies of dispatches from Sir Harford Jones, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Persian Court, to the Secret Committee of the East India Company, in London. Dispatches are sent from Bombay [Mumbai], Schyras [Shiraz], Teehran [Tehran, also written Tahran in the present volume...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
30 Apr 1808-29 Jan 1811
Extent:
1 item (478 folios)

3. IOR/G/29/34

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/34
Title:
Enclosures to Bengal Secret Letter, dated 17th September 1808
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of correspondence, memoranda, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Brigadier-General John Malcolm’s 1808 mission to Persia [Iran] as East India Company Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. The papers are enclosures to a packet sent to the Secret...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1 May 1808-17 Sep 1808
Extent:
1 volume (416 folios)

4. IOR/G/29/37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/37
Title:
Enclosures on Persia from the Secret Department, Fort St George, to the Secret Committee, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
The volume contains the contents of three packets sent by the Secret Department, Fort St George, Madras [Chennai], to the Secret Committee, London, dated 21 December 1809, 10, and 26 January 1810. The contents consist of correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], particularly in connection to Br...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 May 1809-27 Jan 1810
Extent:
1 volume (277 folios)

5. 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)

6. 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)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/67/131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/131
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Meerza Sheffea, Prime Minister of Persia, to the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Meerza Sheffea [Mirzā Muhammad Shafī Māzandarānī], Prime Minister of Persia, to the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire [Kör Yusuf Ziyaüddin Pasha], undated (in French). The letter congratulates the Grand Vizier on his appointment, expresses hope for stronger relations bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
Dec 1809
Extent:
1 item (2 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)