This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 101 of 1847, dated 1 December 1847. The enclosures listed in the abstract of contents are numbered 3-5. Enclosure No. 3 consists of a l...
An extract of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], dated 23 November 1801. The letter concerns attempts to transport cowpox samples to India for purposes of inoculation against smallpox. Jones as...
1. ‘Notes’, anonymous and undated (probably written by Harford Jones, Resident in Baghdad), concerning the activities of the French physician Outry and his suspected influence over the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad]. Another copy of this document can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76...
Letters to Harford Jones from Jean-François Rousseau and Peter Tooke
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This item contains copies of two letters: 1. A letter in French from Jean-François Rousseau, French Commissioner of Commercial Relations in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, dated 25 February 1802. Rousseau thanks Jones for facilitating a meeting with the Pacha [Büyük Sula...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Bagdad and dated 18 April 1802. The letter reports a successful experiment by Doctor James Short, Surgeon at the Bagdad Residency, to reproduce a vaccine in Bagdad aga...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to James Short, Surgeon at the Bagdad Residency, dated 31 March 1802. The letter forwards a sample of vaccine matter received from a Doctor de Carro in Vienna (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/224) for the purposes of experimentation, in the...