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037-000544535 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

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/9/69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69
Title:
Letters from Persia
Scope & Content:
Copies of letters and enclosures sent by Henry Willock, HM Chargé d'Affaires in Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated October 1819 to December 1824, and by Major George Willock, Acting Chargé d'Affaires, during the period August 1822 to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1819-1824
Extent:
11 boxes, 250 items

3. IOR/L/PS/9/76

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76
Title:
Letters from Iraq 1781-1805
Scope & Content:
Copies of letters from Residents at Basra and Baghdad: William Digges Latouche, Sir Harford Jones, Samuel Manesty, and Jonathan Henry Lovett. With enclosures (listed separately). See also L/PS/9/67 for other letters from Sir Harford Jones. Fragments of letter covers (not for issue) correspondin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1781-1805
Extent:
15 boxes, 386 items

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/212

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/212
Title:
Letter in Cypher
Scope & Content:
A translation, mostly in cypher, of a letter from an informant of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1802
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/76/217

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/217
Title:
Letter in cypher
Scope & Content:
A translation, mostly in cypher, of a letter from an informant of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]. The letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Charles Mills, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 19 February 1802 (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/218).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/76/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/236
Title:
Intercepted Letter from Caboul
Scope & Content:
A translation of 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 time of civil war, describes his situation in Caboul, and expresses his hop...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/76/237

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/237
Title:
Intercepted Letter from Caboul
Scope & Content:
A translation of an intercepted letter from Caboul [Kaboul] 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, describes his situation in Caboul, and expresses his hope to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Mar 1802
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

10. 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)