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037-000544535 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Egypt, Africa

1. IOR/L/PS/9/76/290

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/290
Title:
Letters from Samuel Briggs and Lord Elgin
Scope & Content:
This item contains copies of two letters: 1. A letter from Samuel Briggs, Proconsul and Agent of the Levant Company in Alexandria, to Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], sent from Alexandria and dated 19 October 1802. The letter reports: the departure of L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1802-10 Nov 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/46

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/46
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Jonathan Duncan
Scope & Content:
Two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Baghdad, to Jonathan Duncan, President and Governor in Council of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 29 November 1798 and 2 December 1798. Jones forwards two letters with information from French-occupied Egypt: 1. A translation of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Nov 1798-2 Dec 1798
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/76/40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/40
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad and dated 24 August 1798. The letter reports Jones’s arrival in Constantinople and dispatch of correspondence....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Aug 1798
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/115
Title:
Letter from John Blankett to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Rear-Admiral John Blankett, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Red Sea, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from HMS Leopard at Jedda [Jeddah] and dated 15 June 1800. Blankett reports a visit to Suez where he found that the Convention for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1800
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/76/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/47
Title:
Extract of a Letter from Constantinople to Baghdad
Scope & Content:
A translated extract of a letter from Coja Reuben ibn Saleh [Khāwja Rūbīn bin Ṣāliḥ] to Coja Abdullah ibn Eussof [Khāwja ‘Abdullāh bin Yūsuf] in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 20 November 1798. The letter forwards news from Cairo received in Constantinople. It r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/76/119

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/119
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Samuel Manesty
Scope & Content:
Two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Bagdad and dated 28 and 29 April 1800. The letters concern reports received by the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] from Damascus that the Vizier [Yūsuf Ẓī...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Apr 1800-29 Apr 1800
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/76/39

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/39
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Jacob Bosanquet, John Blankett and Robert Abbott
Scope & Content:
Copies of three letters from Harford Jones, newly appointed Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Vienna and Constantinople [Istanbul] en route to Bagdad in July-August 1798: 1. A letter to Jacob Bosanquet, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Vienna and dat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 July 1798-18 Aug 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/76/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/42
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas of 31 Oct 1798
Scope & Content:
A copy of the proclamation written by General Napoleon Bonaparte after capturing Alexandria, dated 13 Messidor of Year VI of the French Revolution/Muharram 1213 (1 July 1798). The proclamation declares the end of the rule of the Mamelukes in Egypt and criticises the Mameluke rulers. It denies t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/9/76/90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/90
Title:
Correspondence of Harford Jones with Jonathan Duncan and John Blankett
Scope & Content:
This item contains four documents: 1. A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bagdad and dated 12 December 1799. In response to Duncan’s letter of 16 October (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/100), Jones discusses routes of communi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1799-26 Dec 1799
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)