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31. IOR/L/PS/9/76/263

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/263
Title:
Accounts for the Baghdad Mission
Scope & Content:
Financial statements displaying payments made in Bagdad [Baghdad] on account of the East India Company in the months of June and July 1802. The statements list expenditure in piastres on household expenses, stables, diplomatic gifts, extraordinary expenses, and charges on merchandise. Attached...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1802-31 Jul 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

32. IOR/L/PS/9/76/281

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/281
Title:
Accounts for the Baghdad Mission
Scope & Content:
Financial statements displaying payments made in Bagdad [Baghdad] on account of the East India Company in the months of August and September 1802. The statements list expenditure in piastres on household expenses, stables, diplomatic gifts, extraordinary expenses, and charges on merchandise. A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Aug 1802-30 Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

33. IOR/L/PS/9/76/185

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/185
Title:
Cover for letter from Samuel Manesty to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
The cover of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bussora and dated 12 September 1801. The contents of the letter are catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/184.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Sep 1801
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

34. IOR/L/PS/9/76/220

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/220
Title:
Cover for Bulletin of Intelligence from Candahar and Cabul
Scope & Content:
The cover for a bulletin of intelligence from Afghanistan sent by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 9 March 1802. The contents of the bulletin are catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/221.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Mar 1802
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

35. IOR/L/PS/9/76/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/183
Title:
Report on Georgia
Scope & Content:
Information on Georgia received by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], on 6 September 1801 from a merchant who arrived in Bagdad from Tiflis [Tblisi]. The merchant reports: an attempt by Alexander, the brother of the Ruler of Georgia Goorgeen Khan [King Giorgi XII of Kartli-Kakheti], t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Sep 1801
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

36. IOR/L/PS/9/76/243

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/243
Title:
Reports from the Caucasus
Scope & Content:
Translations of two letters from an informant of Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], dated 3 and 8 May 1802. The letters concern Russian activity in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea, reporting: movements of Russian troops and ships; embassies from Shaku [Shaki] and Shirvan [Sirvan] to Tehr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1802-8 May 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

37. IOR/L/PS/9/76/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/300
Title:
Letter to Ali Pasha
Scope & Content:
A letter in Farsi to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] concerning Mahomed Nejeeb Beg [Muḥammad Najīb Beg], Mussaleem [Mutasallim, Governor] of Bussora [Basra]. The letter was copied on behalf of Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Farsi
Date Range:
c 1803
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

38. IOR/L/PS/9/76/79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/79
Title:
Account of the 1773 Plague in Bassora
Scope & Content:
An anonymous French account of the 1773 plague outbreak in Bassora [Basra]. The author describes: his confinement in the French Factory in Bassora; the illness and death of Claude Pyraut [Pirault], French Consul in Bassora, and other employees of the Factory; his own illness and recovery; the l...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
French
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item (10 folios)

39. IOR/L/PS/9/76/99

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/99
Title:
Report on the sinking of HMS Trincomalee
Scope & Content:
An extract of a report on proceedings on board the East India Company cruiser Comet by Lieutenant James Fortescue, dated 8 October 1799. The report describes a battle with French ships, including the captured ship Pearl, en route from Bombay [Mumbai] to Bussora [Basra], during which HMS Trincom...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

40. IOR/L/PS/9/76/131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/131
Title:
Letters from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin
Scope & Content:
Two letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 23 October 1800. The letters cover issues including: Elgin’s grant of a Birat [commission] to Morad (also known as Mordechai) Coen, a Jewish merchant in B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1800
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)