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111. IOR/L/PS/9/72/142

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/72/142
Title:
Copy of a letter (no.3) from Captain John Campbell, Assistant in Charge of affairs in Persia, to the Secret Committee
Scope & Content:
With enclosure no.6 to Secretary George Swinton, with enclosure: Copy of a letter (in French) of condolence from Pince Nicolai Dolgorouki, Russian Ambassador in Persia
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
24 jun 1830
Extent:
3 folios

112. IOR/L/PS/9/72/153

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/72/153
Title:
Copy of a letter from Captain John Campbell to the Secret Committee with enclosure to Secretary George Swinton, with 2 enclosures
Scope & Content:
1. Copy of a note (in French) from Prince Dolgorouki, Russian Ambassador in Persia. 2. Copy of a note (in French) from a N. Besack, Russian Assessor of college.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
29 Dec 1830
Extent:
4 folios

113. IOR/L/PS/9/76/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/30
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from William Digges Latouche to the Secret Committee of 13 May 1783
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from a French Minister to French representatives in India carried by the messenger M Cotinal, copied by William Digges Latouche, Resident at Bussora [Basra], on 26 May 1783. The letter claims that the King of England [King George III] intends to take over the territories cont...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
c. 1783
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

114. IOR/L/PS/9/76/41

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/41
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas of 31 Oct 1798
Scope & Content:
A copy of a report in French from Caboul [Kabul] received by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], from merchants of Constantinople [Istanbul] in Bagdad trading with Caboul and Candahar [Kandahar] on 20 October 1798. The report states that Zeman Shah [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Ruler of Afghani...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
20 Oct 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

115. IOR/L/PS/9/76/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/42
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas of 31 Oct 1798
Scope & Content:
A copy of the proclamation written by General Napoleon Bonaparte after capturing Alexandria, dated 13 Messidor of Year VI of the French Revolution/Muharram 1213 (1 July 1798). The proclamation declares the end of the rule of the Mamelukes in Egypt and criticises the Mameluke rulers. It denies t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

116. 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)

117. 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)

118. 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)

119. 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)

120. 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)