A record of the interrogation of an Armenian named Stephan who had recently been in Tiflis [Tblisi] by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], on 8 January 1802. The interrogation relates to the state of affairs in Georgia under Russian occupation, the activities of members of Georgia’s ro...
Letters from Harford Jones to Lord Wellesley and Jonathan Duncan
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Copies of letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, and Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bagdad and dated 13 January 1802. Jones forwards correspondence concerning Russian designs on the Caspian Sea and the frontie...
Reports from the Caucasus. Letters to Harford Jones from Samuel Manesty and Robert Rickards
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This item contains copies of four letters: 1. Translations of two anonymous letters to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], with dates in cypher. The letters concern Russian activity in the Caucasus, including an attack on Erivan [Yerevan] by Prince Daoud [David] of Georgia with Russian...
An extract from the records of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency, consisting of a minute written by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, dated 13 February 1802. The minute concerns plague in Bagdad, describing the public punishment by the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], with Jon...
An extract from the records of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency, consisting of correspondence of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, with Soliman Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] and Jean-François Rousseau, French Consul in Bagdad, dated 5-10 February 1802. The correspondence con...
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).
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, to Charles Mills, Chairman of the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company], sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 19 February 1802. The letter forwards v...
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...
Cover for Bulletin of Intelligence from Candahar and Cabul
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The cover for a bulletin of intelligence from Afghanistan sent by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 9 March 1802. The contents of the bulletin are catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/221.