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037-000544535 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Caucasus, Eurasia

1. IOR/L/PS/9/76/243

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/243
Title:
Reports from the Caucasus
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1802-8 May 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/274

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/274
Title:
Letters from Informants to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
This item contains translations of two letters: 1. A letter from Mohammed Reza Khan [Muḥammad Rezā Khān], Persian representative in Kerbela [Karbala], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 14 August 1802. Mohammed Reza Khan reports that he is returning to Kerbela and forwards n...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Aug 1802-14 Aug 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/76/249

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/249
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Wellesley
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1802-20 Jun 1802
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/53

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/53
Title:
Letter from the Armenian Archbishop of Saint Petersburg to Simon Madator
Scope & Content:
An extract of a letter from the Armenian Archbishop at Saint Petersburg [Iosif Argutinsky-Dolgoruky, Archbishop of All Armenians in Russia] to his nephew Simon Madator in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated October 1798. The letter reports on the policy of the Emperor [Tsar Paul I] in the Caucasus, includi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1798
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/68/69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/68/69
Title:
Enclosure in Sir Harford Jones’s letter of 14 September 1810
Scope & Content:
Extracts from an anonymous letter in French dated 26 May 1810, containing reports from the Court of Russia. The letter reports Russia’s hopes for a swift end to the wars on its southern flank with Turkey [Ottoman Empire] and Persia [Iran]; the expectation of an armistice with Persia and the dema...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
26 May 1810
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/69/247

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/247
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 16 Nov 1824
Scope & Content:
A translation of the instructions issued by the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran] to Futteh Ali Khan [Fath-‘Ali Khan Rashti], Beglerbegee [Beglarbeg, Governor] of Tabrees [Tabrīz], for his mission to Tiflis [Tblisi] to negotiate with General Yermoloff [Alexey Petrovich Y...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1824
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/69/248

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/248
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 16 Nov 1824
Scope & Content:
A translation of additional instructions issued by the Prince Royal [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince] of Persia [Iran] to Futteh Ali Khan [Fath-‘Ali Khan Rashti], Beglerbegee [Beglarbeg, Governor] of Tabrees [Tabrīz] for his mission to Tiflis [Tblisi] to negotiate Persia’s frontier with the Russian E...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Nov 1824
Extent:
1 item (5 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/69/236

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/236
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 18 Oct 1824
Scope & Content:
A translation of a letter from General Yermoloff [Alexey Petrovich Yermolov], Governor-General of Georgia, to Abbas Meerza [‘Abbās Mīrzā, Crown Prince of Persia]. Yermoloff remonstrates with Abbas Meerza regarding incidents along the frontier between Persia [Iran] and the Russian Empire in the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1824
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/76/214

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/214
Title:
Reports from the Caucasus. Letters to Harford Jones from Samuel Manesty and Robert Rickards
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1801-8 Jan 1802
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/76/260

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/260
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Alexander Stratton with enclosures
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 30 August 1802. The letter forwards reports from Persia [Iran] of military preparations believed to be related to a campaign a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 May 1802-30 Aug 1802
Extent:
1 item (8 folios)