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037-000544535 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Red Sea, World

1. IOR/L/PS/9/76/50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/50
Title:
Letter from Samuel Manesty to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bussora and dated 7 November 1798. The letter concerns arrangements for communication between Bussora and Aden and the Red Sea. Manesty describes his conversations with...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Nov 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/82

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/82
Title:
Letters from John Blankett to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Three letters and one part of an additional 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 in Mocha Roads and dated 16 April-15 June 1799. Blankett forwards information collect...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Apr 1799-15 Jun 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. 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)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/87

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/87
Title:
Letters from John Blankett to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Copies of four letters 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 in Mocha Roads and dated 16 April-20 June 1799. Blankett forwards information collected from around the Red Sea a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1799-20 Jun 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/67/55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/55
Title:
Copy of a Letter from Admiral John Blankett, at Jedda, to Lord Duncan, Governor of Bombay
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Admiral John Blankett to Lord Duncan, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from HMS Leopard at Jedda [Jeddah] and dated 30 June 1800. The letter reports: Blankett's meeting with the Sheriffe [Sharif] of Mecca and his attempts to secure the Sheriffe's co-operation against Fran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1800
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

6. 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)