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.
Extracts of letters from William Digges Latouche, the East India Company’s (EIC) Resident at Bussorah [Basra], to the Company’s Court of Directors reporting on French activities in the Persian Gulph [Gulf]. In particular, their capture of the Imaum [Imām] of Muscat’s ship bound at Catiffe [Qatif...
This volume contains correspondence sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] between 6 December 1775 and 4 October 1779 including the following: The correspondence between the East India Company agents at Bussora, William Digges Latouche and George Abraham and Soliman Ag...
Enclosures on Persia from the Secret Department, Fort St George, to the Secret Committee, 1809-1810
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The volume contains the contents of three packets sent by the Secret Department, Fort St George, Madras [Chennai], to the Secret Committee, London, dated 21 December 1809, 10, and 26 January 1810. The contents consist of correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], particularly in connection to Br...
Notes from Major Willock's Dispatches to the Secret Committee
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The item consists of notes relating to communications sent by Major Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Persia [Iran] in Tehran, to the Secret Committee, dated between 24 February and 17 April 1820. A list of the dispatches referred to in the notes is given on folio 501 and these...
Correspondence of the East India Company with the Levant Company
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Correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) with the Levant Company related to the right to trade at Bussorah [Basra, also spelled as Bussora]. The correspondence includes a copy of a letter to Mr Henry Grenville, His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]; copies of extracts from ...
This volume contains correspondence sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] between 27 April 1779 and 1 December 1783 including: The correspondence of William Digges Latouche and George Abraham, agents at the English factory in Bussora, with the Court of Directors of th...
This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 8 February 1784 and 9 October 1785, and covers the following: The correspondence of the Agent at Bussorah, William Digges Latouche, with the Court of Directors and Secret Committee of the Cour...
Memoranda from Dispatches from Mr Willock H. M. Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of Persia, to Viscount Castlereagh
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The item consists of a memorandum on the dispatches from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires at the Court of Persia [Iran] in Tehran, to Viscount Castlereagh [Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry], Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Specific dispatches are referenced in the margin an...
