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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Plague Place Persia, Asia

1. IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control
Scope & Content:
This part of the volume comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers relating to the first years of the East India Company Residency in Bagdad [Baghdad, also spelled Bagdat in this volume]. The first section (folios 4-153) consists of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1 Jul 1798-20 May 1801
Extent:
1 item (511 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/226

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/226
Title:
Reports from Persia
Scope & Content:
This item contains translated extracts of two letters from Persia [Iran] received by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], on 11 May 1802: 1. A letter from Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā ‘Īsá Khān Farāhānī, Vizier to the Crown Prince of Persia]. The letter implores Jones to leave Bagdad for his ow...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 May 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/283

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/283
Title:
File 2612/1912 Pt 1 ‘Tehran Sanitary Council’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains part 1 of papers from and about the Tehran Sanitary Council (also referred to as the Conseil Sanitaire de l’Empire de Perse). It chiefly comprises copies of the proceedings (in French) of the 99th through to the 127th meetings of the Council, forwarded by the British Ambassad...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Feb 1912-29 Dec 1913
Extent:
1 volume (204 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/284

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/284
Title:
File 2612/1912 Pt 2 ‘Persia. Tehran Sanitary Council’
Scope & Content:
The volume contains part 2 of papers from and about the Tehran Sanitary Council (also referred to as the Conseil Sanitaire de l’Empire de Perse), and is a direct chronological continuation of File 2612/1912 Pt 1 ‘Tehran Sanitary Council’ (IOR/L/PS/10/283). It chiefly comprises copies of the proc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
13 Jan 1914-16 Apr 1920
Extent:
1 volume (311 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/20/33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/20/33
Title:
‘REPORT ON THE MISSION TO SEISTAN, 1897’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of a report by Surgeon-Major George Washington Brazier-Creagh on his mission to Seistan [Sīstān] on ‘plague duty’ to investigate the closure of the Perso-Afghan-Baluch trade routes under the ‘mantle of plague’ from April to October 1897. The report is divided into five sectio...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1898
Extent:

1 volume (63 folios)

6. Mss Eur F111/159

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F111/159
Title:
‘1900. THE LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON. CORRESPONDENCE WITH SECRETARY OF STATE, LORD SALISBURY, & SIR A. GODLEY.’
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of printed copies of letters to and from Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, dated 4 January to 27 December 1900. The correspondence is mainly between Curzon and Lord George Hamilton, Secretary of State for India. It also includes correspondence between Curzon and Sir Arthur Godle...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1901?
Extent:

1 volume (379 folios)