A financial statement displaying the East India Company’s estimated monthly revenue and expenditure in rupees at the Bagdad [Baghdad] Mission for the period 1 May 1802-30 April 1803. The statement is signed by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, and dated 30 April 1802.
A financial statement displaying payments made in Bagdad [Baghdad] on account of the East India Company in the periods 1 May 1800-30 April 1801 and 1 May 1801-30 April 1802. The statement lists expenditure in rupees on household expenses, stables, diplomatic gifts, extraordinary expenses, and c...
Translations of two letters from an informant of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 3 and 8 May 1802. The letters concern Russian activity in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea, reporting: movements of Russian troops and ships; embassies from Shaku [Shaki] and Shirvan [Sirvan] to Tehr...
A translation of a letter from an informant of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 3 May 1802. The letter concerns commercial transactions in Reshed [Rashd] and Cazvin [Qazvin]. This letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 2...
Letters from Harford Jones to Marquess Wellesley and Jonathan Duncan
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This item contains copies of two letters: 1. A letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 20 June 1802. The letter forwards intercepted letters from a French traveller in Caboul [Kabul] (catalogued as IO...
A copy of a secret dispatch from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 21 June 1802. Jones forwards correspondence (attached) concerning the Persian [Iranian] reaction to the sack of Meshed Hossein [Shrine of I...
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 period of civil war, and his hopes to travel to Candahar [Kandahar] and Persia [Iran] and re...
This item contains: 1. Notes on a meeting between Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and the Pasha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] on 6 June 1802. The meeting mainly concerns the recent sack of Meshed Hossein [Shrine of Imām Huṣayn bin ‘Alī, Karbala] by the Wahabys [Wahhā...
A letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 20 June 1802. The letter forwards intercepted letters from a French traveller in Caboul [Kabul], attached. Jones pledges to continue to monitor this correspond...
A copy of a secret dispatch from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 21 June 1802. Jones forwards correspondence (attached) concerning the Persian [Iranian] reaction to the sack of Meshed Hossein [Shrine of I...