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036-000544463 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Trade (practice)

1. IOR/L/PS/9/76/170

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/170
Title:
Reports on Indigo
Scope & Content:
Three papers in French concerning indigo, copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 15 April 1801. The first two papers describe the trade in indigo from India to Bagdad and other parts of the Ottoman Empire since the 1770s, detailing trade routes and the quality and prices o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1801
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/9/76/177

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/177
Title:
Reports on Indigo
Scope & Content:
Two papers in French concerning indigo, copied by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 30 August 1801. The papers appraise specimens of indigo brought to Bagdad by Captain John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], and suggest trade strategies. A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
30 Aug 1801
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/9/76/244

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/244
Title:
Letter regarding Trade
Scope & Content:
A translation of a letter from an informant of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 3 May 1802. The letter concerns commercial transactions in Reshed [Rashd] and Cazvin [Qazvin]. This letter was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 2...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/9/76/94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/94
Title:
Commercial Report on the Durrani Empire
Scope & Content:
A report on trade between Turkey [Ottoman Empire], Persia [Iran], and the domains of Zeman Shah [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Ruler of Afghanistan]. The report details the imports from and exports to Turkey and Persia of Herat, Candahar [Kandahar], and Caboul [Kabul], with approximate values in rupees....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1800
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/9/76/116

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/116
Title:
Commercial report on the Durrani Empire
Scope & Content:
A report on trade between Turkey [Ottoman Empire], Persia [Iran], and the domains of Zeman Shah [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Ruler of Afghanistan]. The report details the imports from and exports to Turkey and Persia of Herat, Candahar [Kandahar], and Caboul [Kabul], with approximate values in rupees....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1800
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/9/67/11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/11
Title:
‘Memorandum Respecting the Trade with Persia. –’
Scope & Content:
A copy of a memorandum on trade between Great Britain and Persia [Iran], and competition from trade between Russia and Persia, by Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire [Būshehr]. The memorandum was enclosed in a letter from Sir Harford Jones, British Envoy Extraordinary to Persia,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1809-5 Dec 1809
Extent:

1 item (2 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/9/76/97

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/97
Title:
Correspondence regarding Transactions of Cochineal
Scope & Content:
This item contains: 1. Extracts and summaries of letters in French, Italian, and Arabic from Constantinople [Istanbul] dated 10 September-30 September 1799, concerning transactions of cochineal involving British-employed ‘Tartars’ [couriers]. 2. Letters from John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
10 Sept 1799-2 Nov 1799
Extent:
1 item (12 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/9/76/98

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/98
Title:
Report on Copper in the Taurus Mountains
Scope & Content:
A report on copper extraction and export from the Taurus Mountains, with recommended arrangements for the East India Company’s purchases of copper. Attached are appendices detailing Ottoman measures of weight, exchange rates of Ottoman piastres, and prospective woollen imports to Bagdad [Baghd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1799
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/9/76/176

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/176
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to John Malcolm
Scope & Content:
An extract of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Captain John Malcolm, Envoy of the Governor-General of Bengal to Persia [Iran], sent from Bagdad and dated 30 August 1801. The letter concerns the indigo trade. Jones forwards information on the subject (see IOR/L/PS/9/...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Aug 1801
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

10. 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)