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131. IOR/L/PS/9/76/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/57
Title:
Letter from Jean-Baptiste Aubert du Bayet to Jean-François Rousseau
Scope & Content:
A copy of a French letter from Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet, Ambassador of the French Republic to the Sublime Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire], to Citizen Jean-François Rousseau, Consul of the French Republic in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 10 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
31 Oct 1797
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

132. IOR/L/PS/9/76/58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/58
Title:
Extracts of Letters received by Jean-François Rousseau
Scope & Content:
Extracts of letters found in the papers of Jean-François Rousseau, French Consul in Bagdad [Baghdad], following his arrest in October 1798, and copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad: An extract of a letter from Marie Louis Henri d’Escorches de Sainte-Croix, Envoy of the French Republic to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Sep 1794-28 Mar 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

133. IOR/L/PS/9/76/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/60
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Jonathan Duncan
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Bagdad and dated 25 March 1799. The letter concerns an embassy rumoured to be travelling across Persia [Iran] to the Court of Baba Khan [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 Mar 1799
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

134. IOR/L/PS/9/76/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/70
Title:
Letters from Constantinople
Scope & Content:
This item contains two documents: 1. A letter from John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople and dated 10 April 1799. Spencer Smith forwards a packet of letters to Jones, including an Ara...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Apr 1799-14 Apr 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

135. IOR/L/PS/9/76/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/71
Title:
Report on the Vhabi [Wahhabi]
Scope & Content:
A report in French on the Vhabis [Wahhabi movement] collected by John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul]. The report covers: the ideology and history of the movement since 1743; the geography of Nedged [Najd]; the territorial conquests of the movement and its ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

136. IOR/L/PS/9/76/75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/75
Title:
Correspondence regarding the French Revolutionary Wars
Scope & Content:
This item contains seven documents relating to the French Revolutionary Wars in the Levant and Italy: 1. A copy of a letter from Sir William Sidney Smith, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Levant, to Captain Wilson, Agent of the East India Company in Judda [Jeddah], sent from HMS T...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
6 May 1799-20 Jun 1799
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

137. IOR/L/PS/9/76/79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/79
Title:
Account of the 1773 Plague in Bassora
Scope & Content:
An anonymous French account of the 1773 plague outbreak in Bassora [Basra]. The author describes: his confinement in the French Factory in Bassora; the illness and death of Claude Pyraut [Pirault], French Consul in Bassora, and other employees of the Factory; his own illness and recovery; the l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

138. IOR/L/PS/9/76/89

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/89
Title:
Report from Herat
Scope & Content:
A report from Herat by an anonymous French author in the service of Shah Zeman [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Ruler of Afghanistan], dated 3 September 1799. The report describes the campaign of Baba Khan [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Persia] in eastern Persia [Iran], including the capture of Nichabour ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

139. IOR/L/PS/9/76/97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/97
Title:
Correspondence regarding Transactions of Cochineal
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
10 Sept 1799-2 Nov 1799
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

140. IOR/L/PS/9/76/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/100
Title:
Letter from Sir William Sidney Smith to John Barker. Letters from Jonathan Duncan to Harford Jones and Samuel Manesty
Scope & Content:
This item contains two letters with enclosures: 1. A copy of a letter from Sir William Sidney Smith, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Levant, to John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, sent from HMS Tigre off Limasol [Limassol] and dated 12 October 1799. The letter concerns difficulties...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Oct 1799-16 Oct 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

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