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11. IOR/L/PS/9/76/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/48
Title:
Letters from Baghdad, Constantinople, and Smyrna
Scope & Content:
This item contains two documents: 1. A prospectus for a French commercial enterprise trading in Turkey [Ottoman Empire], Persia [Iran], and India, found in the papers of the French Consul in Baghdad Jean-François Rousseau after his arrest in October 1798 and copied by Harford Jones. This docum...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Oct 1798-15 Nov 1798
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/9/76/56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/56
Title:
Letters between Harford Jones, John Spencer Smith and Sir Morton Eden
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Sublime Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire], sent from Bagdad and dated 27 February 1799. The letter reports the receipt of a packet of letters from Smith to the Gove...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1798-27 Feb 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/9/76/60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/60
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to 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 25 March 1799. The letter concerns an embassy rumoured to be travelling across Persia [Iran] to the Court of Baba Khan [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
25 Mar 1799
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/9/76/61

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/61
Title:
Letters between Harford Jones and Mohammed Aga
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Mohammed Aga, [Muḥammad Āghā], Ambassador of the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] to Persia [Iran], sent from Bagdad and dated 28 March 1799. The letter concerns an embassy rumoured to be travelling acros...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/9/76/62

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/62
Title:
Letters to Robert Abbott from Luigi Malagamba and Nicholas Ducci
Scope & Content:
Copies of two letters addressed to Robert Abbott, East India Company Agent in Aleppo, containing news of the French campaign in Palestine led by General Napoleon Bonaparte: 1. An Italian letter from Luigi Malagamba, sent from Acri [Acre] and dated 12 March 1799. The letter describes difficultie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
12 Mar 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/9/76/64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/64
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 26 April 1799. Jones reports that he has sent a messenger to Syria to obtain information on the French campaign led by General Napoleon Bonaparte. The letter a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/9/76/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/66
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to John Spencer Smith
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul], sent from Bagdad and dated 17 April 1799. Jones forwards a letter from Luigi Malagamba to Robert Abbott, late East India Company Agent in Aleppo (IO...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/9/76/69

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/69
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Meerza Mehedi Ally Khan
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Meerza Mehedi Ally Khan, [Mīrzā Mahdī ‘Alī Khān Bahadūr], Resident in Bushire [Bushehr]. Jones congratulates Meerza Mehdi Ally Khan on the success of his mission to the Court of Tehiran [Tehran]. The letter also reports a d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/9/76/70

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/70
Title:
Letters from Constantinople
Scope & Content:
This item contains two documents: 1. A letter from John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople and dated 10 April 1799. Spencer Smith forwards a packet of letters to Jones, including an Ara...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
10 Apr 1799-14 Apr 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/9/76/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/71
Title:
Report on the Vhabi [Wahhabi]
Scope & Content:
A report in French on the Vhabis [Wahhabi movement] collected by John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul]. The report covers: the ideology and history of the movement since 1743; the geography of Nedged [Najd]; the territorial conquests of the movement and its ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)