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31. IOR/L/PS/9/76/43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/43
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 31 October 1798. Subjects covered include: Jones’s meeting with the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] Jones’s attempts to obtain intellige...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/9/76/44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/44
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 31 October 1798. Subjects covered include: A dispute between the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] and Muscat Rumoured communication betwe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

33. 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)

34. IOR/L/PS/9/76/54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/54
Title:
Letters between Harford Jones, John Lewis Reinaud and Jonathan Duncan
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Bagdad and dated 12 February 1799. The letter complains of the conduct of John Lewis Reinaud, former agent of the Bussora [Basra] Residency in Bagdad, regarding commun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1798-12 Feb 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

35. IOR/L/PS/9/76/59

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/59
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 12 March 1799. The letter reports the arrival in Bagdad of ‘Arab’ [tribal] messengers who were plundered by Whabee [Wahhabi] raiders while carrying dispat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Mar 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/9/76/74

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/74
Title:
Letters from Louisa Abbott to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Two letters from Louisa Abbott, widow of Robert Abbott, late East India Company Agent in Aleppo, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 19 April and 26 May 1799. The letters concern the transit of mail via Aleppo, including issues around the payment of messengers, and forward ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1799-26 May 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/9/76/88

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/88
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 8 October 1799. Jones complains of the difficulties of hiring ‘Tartars’ [couriers] from the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

38. 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)

39. IOR/L/PS/9/76/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/100
Title:
Letter from Sir William Sidney Smith to John Barker. Letters from Jonathan Duncan to Harford Jones and Samuel Manesty
Scope & Content:
This item contains two letters with enclosures: 1. A copy of a letter from Sir William Sidney Smith, Commander of the British naval squadron in the Levant, to John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, sent from HMS Tigre off Limasol [Limassol] and dated 12 October 1799. The letter concerns difficulties...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
12 Oct 1799-16 Oct 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/9/76/103

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/103
Title:
Letters from Lord Elgin to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Two letters from Lord Elgin, newly appointed HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]. The first letter, sent from Constantinople [Istanbul] and dated 16 November 1799, announces Elgin’s arrival in Constantinople and assumption of his duties, offers as...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1799-21 Dec 199
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)