An extract of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Mughil [Al-Ma‘qil] and dated 12 February 1803. The letter concerns the transit of mail.
A petition in Arabic to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] from inhabitants of Bussora [Basra], concerning the detention of an Egyptian woman living with a British sailor in Bussora (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/299). An English version of the petition can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/299.
A letter in Farsi from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad], dated 14 May 1803. An English version of this letter can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/316.
This item contains copies of two letters from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal: 1. The first letter, sent from Maghil [Al Ma’qil] and dated 18 May 1803, forwards correspondence with the Chairman and Secret Committee of the Court of D...
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Maghil [Al Ma’qil] and dated 9 May 1803. The letter forwards an extract of Manesty’s letter to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, of the same date (catalogued as I...
An extract of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 20 September 1801. The letter reports the receipt of mail from the Governor-General.
An extract of a letter from Colonel William Kirkpatrick, Private Secretary to the Governor-General of Bengal, to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Calcutta [Kolkata] and dated 27 October 1800. The letter communicates the Governor-General’s approval of Manesty’s arrangements...
An extract of a letter from Colonel William Kirkpatrick, Private Secretary to the Governor-General of Bengal, to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Calcutta [Kolkata] and dated 27 December 1800. The letter communicates the Governor-General’s approval of Manesty’s arrangement...
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Captain Edward Stephenson, former Acting Resident in Bussora, sent from Bussora and dated 6 November 1804. Manesty praises Stephenson’s conduct during his service in Bussora.