An extract of a letter from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Baghdad, to Sir Jacob Bosanquet, Chairman of the Court of Directors. The letter includes a memoir titled ‘The Whahaubee [Wahhābīs]’ covering the history of the Whahaubee movement, and giving details of some of their ideas. It also includ...
Letter from Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control, to Sir Stephen Lushington, Chairman of the East India Company, respecting General Morrison’s proposed Treaty with Persia.
Home Correspondence of the East India Company in Relation to its Naval Force in the Gulf
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Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) in relation to its naval force in the Gulph [Gulf]. The correspondence includes duplicate copies of the ‘Charges and Losses sustained in the Gulph of Persia [Iran]’; duplicate copies of ‘An Account of Woollens exported for Persia’; and letters ...
Sir John Malcolm's mission to Persia: copies of his letters and enclosures to the Governor-General, Fort William
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The volume contains letters and enclosures from Captain John Malcolm, British Envoy at Abusheher [Bushehr, various spellings appear in the volume] to the Earl of Mornington, Governor-General, Fort William (Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess, Wellesley, spelled Marquis in the volume). Letters were a...
Letters from Harford Jones Esquire British Resident at Bagdat to The Right Honourable Henry Dundas, One of His Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, from July 1798 to May 1801, with an Appendix
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The volume comprises correspondence, memoranda, notes, and other papers relative to the early years of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency. The majority of the volume consists of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control, with enclosures. T...
Letter from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad, to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control
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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...
'Precis of Letters from Mr Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad'
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This part of the volume consists of a précis of the letters found in item IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514. These letters are from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control. The précis is incomplete.
Index to the Precis of Letters from Mr Harford Jones
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This part consists of a subject index to the précis included in IOR/G/29/27, ff 515-552. The précis is of letters from Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control. Full copies of these letters can be found in IOR/G/29/27, ff 4-514.
A copy of a letter from the Secret Committee to Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad]. The letter expresses approval of Jones's recent conduct, refers to the situation in Afghanistan, and delays the instructions that Jones should travel to the Court of Zemaun Shah [Zamān Shāh Durrānī] at Ca...
Remarks by Mr Harford Jones on Col Malcolm's letter to the Governor-General relative to the commerce of the Gulph of Persia
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This part of the volume consists of a memorandum by Sir Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], on the commerce of the Persian Gulf, written in response to Colonel John Malcolm's letter to the Governor-General of India on the same subject.