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541. IOR/L/PS/9/76/125

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/125
Title:
Letter from Henry Fawcett to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Henry Fawcett, Accountant-General and Civil Auditor of the Government of Bombay, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle [Mumbai] and dated 16 April 1800. The letter reports the audit of Jones’s accounts for the period July-October 1799, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1800
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

542. IOR/L/PS/9/76/193

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/193
Title:
Letter from Sulayman Pasha to David Scott
Scope & Content:
A letter in Farsi from the Pasha of Bagdad [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] to David Scott, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The letter expresses friendship, acknowledges receipt of a letter, and forwards various correspondence.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Farsi
Date Range:
c 1801
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

543. IOR/L/PS/9/76/195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/195
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Peter Tooke
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Nov 1801
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

544. IOR/L/PS/9/76/219

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/219
Title:
Letters between Harford Jones and James Short
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between James Short, Surgeon at the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency, and Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, dated 7-9 February 1802. The correspondence concerns two Jewish residents of Bagdad who were suspected to have contracted plague. The correspondence was enclosed in Jones’s let...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1802-9 Feb 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

545. IOR/L/PS/9/76/222

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/222
Title:
Letter from Jean-Francois Rousseau to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of 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 Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
25 Feb 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

546. IOR/L/PS/9/76/265

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/265
Title:
Letters from Meerza Bozurg to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Translations of two letters from Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā ‘Īsá Khān Farāhānī, Vizier to the Crown Prince of Persia] to Harford Jones, received 27 October 1802. The letters principally concern French overtures to Persia [Iran], stating that a French envoy to the Court of Persia who proposed joint ac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Oct 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

547. IOR/L/PS/9/76/276

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/276
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Alexander Stratton
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Alexander Stratton, HM Minister Plenipotentiary to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 23 September 1802. The letter concerns events in Bagdad since the death of the Pasha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā], the issue of suc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

548. IOR/L/PS/9/76/292

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/292
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Meerza Bozurg
Scope & Content:
Translations of two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā ‘Īsá Khān Farāhānī], Vizier to the Crown Prince of Persia [Iran], dated 5 Rejeb [Rajab]/31 October 1802. The letters express friendship towards Persia and regret concerning the death of Hajee K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

549. IOR/L/PS/9/76/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/305
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Ali Pasha
Scope & Content:
A note from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to the Basha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad], delivered on 29 June 1803. The letter concerns the detention of an Egyptian woman living with a British sailor in Bussora [Basra] (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/299). Jones reports that Samuel ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Farsi
Date Range:
Jun 1803
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

550. IOR/L/PS/9/76/321

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/321
Title:
Letter from Samuel Manesty to Lord Wellesley
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora, to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Maghil [Al Ma’qil] and dated 14 May 1803. The letter forwards extracts of letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Manesty and Marquess Wellesley, dated ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1803-14 May 1803
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)