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1. IOR/L/PS/9/67

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67
Title:
Letters from Persia
Scope & Content:
Letters and enclosures received by the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company concerning the relations of the United Kingdom and the Government of Bengal with Qājār Persia [Iran] between 1799 and 1812. The file focusses on the three missions of John Malcolm to Pers...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
1799-1812
Extent:
5 boxes, 138 items

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/170
Title:
Reports on Indigo
Scope & Content:
Three papers in French concerning indigo, copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 15 April 1801. The first two papers describe the trade in indigo from India to Bagdad and other parts of the Ottoman Empire since the 1770s, detailing trade routes and the quality and prices o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1801
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/76/177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/177
Title:
Reports on Indigo
Scope & Content:
Two papers in French concerning indigo, copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 30 August 1801. The papers appraise specimens of indigo brought to Bagdad by Captain John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], and suggest trade strategies. A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
30 Aug 1801
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/238

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/238
Title:
Intercepted Letter from Caboul
Scope & Content:
A copy of an intercepted letter from Caboul [Kabul] from a French author to a correspondent in Paris, dated 8 March 1802. The author recounts his journey across India via Cachemire [Kashmir] to Caboul in a period of civil war, and his hopes to travel to Candahar [Kandahar] and Persia [Iran] and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
8 Mar 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/76/247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/247
Title:
Intercepted letter from Caboul
Scope & Content:
An intercepted letter from a French author in Caboul [Kabul] to a correspondent in Spanish Biscay, dated 8 March 1802. The author recounts his journey across India via Cachemire [Kashmir] to Caboul in a period of civil war, and his hopes to travel to Candahar [Kandahar] and Persia [Iran] and re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
8 Mar 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. 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)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/71/203

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/203
Title:
Enclosure no 2 to letter of 16 Mar 1828
Scope & Content:
Draft articles of the peace treaty [Treaty of Turkamanchay] between Russia and Persia [Iran] concerning commerce, written in French. The articles cover issues including: freedom of trade for merchants of both countries in each other’s territory; legal arrangements for settling trade disputes; c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c Mar 1828
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/71/238

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/238
Title:
Receipt from Prince Kondocheff for Three Crores of Tomans
Scope & Content:
Receipt from Prince Kondocheff for three crores of tomans to be paid by Persia [Iran] to Russia as reparations, as stipulated in the peace treaty negotiated to end the war between Russia and Persia [Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828], dated 14 January 1828 [Old Style] and 26 January 1828 [New Style] ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
26 Jan 1828
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/71/202

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/71/202
Title:
Enclosure no 1 to letter of 16 Mar 1828
Scope & Content:
A summary of the terms of the peace treaty [Treaty of Turkamanchay] between Russia and Persia [Iran]. The terms cover: Arrangements for the evacuation of the Khanate of Talyche [Talysh] by Persia Arrangements for the payment of an indemnity by Persia to Russia, with the province of Adzerbaidjan...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c Mar 1828
Extent:

1 item (4 folios)