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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Diplomacy Name Governor of Baghdad, c 1638-c 1917

1. IOR/F/4/259/5659

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/F/4/259/5659
Title:
‘Assassination of Ali Pasha of Bagdad – temporary succession to the Pashalick, of Soleeman his nephew and Chief Minister – Conduct of Mr Manesty in resolving, without authority, to support Soleeman against Eusuph Pasha, in the probable event of the latter being nominated to the Pashalick by the Ottoman Government’
Scope & Content:
The item consists of copies and extracts of correspondence, minutes and resolutions cited in, or enclosed with, letters from the Government of Bombay. The item is concerned with the assassination of Ali Pasha, Governor of Bagdad [Baghdad], and the interference of Samuel Manesty, Resident at Bus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Aug 1807-5 Mar 1808
Extent:

1 item (40 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/5/432, ff 1a-3, ff 118-145

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/432, ff 1a-3, ff 118-145
Title:
Affairs in Turkish Arabia
Scope & Content:
Enclosures no. 2-5 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 24 August 1844. The enclosures are dated 28 February-17 May 1844. The enclosures consist of correspondence relating to affairs in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], particularly in relation to the situation al...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1844
Extent:
1 item (31 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/5/445, ff 4-23

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/445, ff 4-23
Title:
Turkish Arabia Affairs
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 91 of 1846, dated 4 August 1846. The enclosure is dated 28 May 1846. The primary document is a despatch from Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Political Agent ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Aug 1846
Extent:
1 item (20 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 9-136

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/446, ff 9-136
Title:
Persian Affairs
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 116 of 1846, dated 12 October 1846. The enclosures, numbered 3-6 and dated 12 May to 15 July 1846, relate to Persian [Iranian] affairs. Enclosu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Oct 1846
Extent:
1 item (128 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/5/455, ff 397-410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/455, ff 397-410
Title:
‘State of Affairs in the Bagdad Pachalie’
Scope & Content:
Enclosures nos. 2-3 to a dispatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 30 June 1848. The enclosures are dated 9-28 April 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence from the Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] relating to affairs in Baghdad, includi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1848
Extent:
1 item (14 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 425-434

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/5/476, ff 425-434
Title:
Affairs in the Bagdad Pachalic and Persia
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 18 of 1853, dated 10 March 1853. The enclosure is numbered 3 and is dated 10 March 1853. The enclosure consists of a letter from HM ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Mar 1853
Extent:
1 item (9 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/6/544, Coll 61/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/6/544, Coll 61/9
Title:
Papers Regarding the Persian Gulf and Muscat (Vol 9) - Negotiations between the Wahabees and the British Government - Meeting of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf with the Confidential Envoy of the Wahabee Ameer
Scope & Content:
This item is a collection to India Political Despatch No. 61 of 23 August 1866, from the Secretary of State for India to the Government of India Foreign Department (the Political Despatch itself is not included in this item). The collection consists of papers forwarded with the Government of Bom...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jun 1866-23 Aug 1866
Extent:

1 item (16 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/8

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/8
Title:
'LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 31. JAN. 1793 TO 21. JUNE 1803 VOL 8'
Scope & Content:
The volume chiefly comprises letters to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company from the Resident and Factor at Bussora [Basra], Samuel Manesty. The letters are dated 31 January 1793-21 June 1803 and the date each letter was received is recorded on the back of it...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1793-21 Jun 1803
Extent:
1 volume (609 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/9

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/9
Title:
‘LETTERS FROM THE RESIDENT BUSSARAH 7. MAR. 1803 TO 31. MAR. 1811. MR MANESTY & HIS ASSISTANT. VOL. 9.’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, mostly to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and mainly from the Resident at Busssora [Basra, also spelled Bussarah in this volume], Samuel Manesty, and the following, successively in temporary charge of the Bussora Residency (a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1803-6 Aug 1810
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/68/64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/64
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Jean Raymond to Govenor-General of Isle de France, Capitaine Général De Caen
Scope & Content:
Copy of a letter in French from Jean Raymond to the Governor-General of the Isle de France [Mauritius] Capitaine Général De Caen [Charles Mathieu Isidore Decaen], of 31 January 1809. This letter was part of the papers seized from French courier Jean Robbio at Bushire by Stephen Babington, in cha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
31 Jan 1809
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)