Notes on Sir Harford Jones's Dispatches to Lord Bathurst
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Notes on Sir Harford Jones's dispatches to Lord Henry Bathurst, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Jones's dispatches were written during his appointment as HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Persia [Iran] and concerned relations between Persia and other regional and glob...
Letters from Sir Gore Ouseley to the Secret Committee
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The item consists of correspondence relating to the embassy of Sir Gore Ouseley to the Court of Persia [Iran]. The letters are principally from Ouseley to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors. Matters covered by the papers include: The progress of Ouseley’s mission, including his journ...
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pt 2
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This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 25 September 1726 and 25 August 1731. It includes material relating to: A proposal that English vessels stop visiting the port of Bussorah, and that a vessel should instead cruise between Ormu...
Précis of letters received from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad
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This part of the volume is a précis of letters from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control. The letters summarised are dated Bagdad 4, 9, and 23 January 1801.
Précis of letters received from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad
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This part of the volume is a précis of letters from Harford Jones, Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, President of the Board of Control. The letters summarised date from 20 January to 27 October 1802.
Abridged Account of the Missions of Sir Harford Jones and Brigadier-General John Malcolm
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An abridged account of the diplomatic missions to the Court of Persia [Iran] undertaken by Sir Harford Jones and Brigadier-General John Malcolm, from 1807 to January 1809.
The volumes contain papers relating to the East India Company’s factory at Mocha. The papers include letters, mainly the following: letters from the Mocha Factory to the East India Company’s Court of Directors; copies of letters from the Mocha Factory to the Bombay Factory, to which the Mocha ...
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...
This item contains the East India Company’s early correspondence about Persia [Iran] from 19 March 1621 to 25 November 1625. The correspondence contained in the item includes material relating to: The request from King James I of England to the Shah of Persia [‘Abbās I] to permit English merchant...
'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.
