This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 63 of 1847, dated 3 July 1847. The enclosures are dated 16 June-2 July 1847. The primary document is a letter from Stafford Bettesworth Haines, Captain...
Part of a letter from Rear-Admiral John Blankett, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Red Sea, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from HMS Leopard in Mocha Roads and dated 20 June 1799. The letter concerns the Government of Mecca, in particular the attitude of the S...
Copies of four letters from Rear-Admiral John Blankett, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Red Sea, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from HMS Leopard in Mocha Roads and dated 16 April-20 June 1799. Blankett forwards information collected from around the Red Sea a...
Correspondence of Harford Jones with Jonathan Duncan and John Blankett
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This item contains four documents: 1. A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bagdad and dated 12 December 1799. In response to Duncan’s letter of 16 October (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/100), Jones discusses routes of communi...