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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Name Governor of Baghdad, c 1638-c 1917

61. IOR/L/PS/9/76/43

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/43
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 31 October 1798. Subjects covered include: Jones’s meeting with the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] Jones’s attempts to obtain intellige...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/9/76/44

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/44
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 31 October 1798. Subjects covered include: A dispute between the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] and Muscat Rumoured communication betwe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Oct 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

63. IOR/L/PS/9/76/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/51
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 17 December 1798. Jones reports a meeting with the Basha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], who criticises the Porte’s [Government of the Ottoma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1798
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/9/76/52

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/52
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Meerza Mehdy Ally Khan
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Meerza Mehdy Ally Khan, [Mīrzā Mahdī ‘Alī Khān Bahadūr, also written as Mehdi Ally Khan], Resident in Buchire [Bushehr], sent from Bagdad and dated 12 January 1799. Jones congratulates Mehdy Ally Khan on his appointment as ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/9/76/54

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/54
Title:
Letters between Harford Jones, John Lewis Reinaud and Jonathan Duncan
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Bagdad and dated 12 February 1799. The letter complains of the conduct of John Lewis Reinaud, former agent of the Bussora [Basra] Residency in Bagdad, regarding commun...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Sep 1798-12 Feb 1799
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/9/76/55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/55
Title:
Military Forces of Soliman Pasha
Scope & Content:
Tables displaying the naval, cavalry, infantry, and artillery forces available to be mobilised by Soliman Pasha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], with notes on provisions and harvests. This report was collated by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], and dated 18 February 1799.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

67. IOR/L/PS/9/76/64

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/64
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Henry Dundas, Secretary of State for War, sent from Bagdad and dated 26 April 1799. Jones reports that he has sent a messenger to Syria to obtain information on the French campaign led by General Napoleon Bonaparte. The letter a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

68. IOR/L/PS/9/76/66

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/66
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to John Spencer Smith
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul], sent from Bagdad and dated 17 April 1799. Jones forwards a letter from Luigi Malagamba to Robert Abbott, late East India Company Agent in Aleppo (IO...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

69. IOR/L/PS/9/76/71

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/71
Title:
Report on the Vhabi [Wahhabi]
Scope & Content:
A report in French on the Vhabis [Wahhabi movement] collected by John Spencer Smith, Minister Plenipotentiary in Constantinople [Istanbul]. The report covers: the ideology and history of the movement since 1743; the geography of Nedged [Najd]; the territorial conquests of the movement and its ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

70. IOR/L/PS/9/76/78

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/78
Title:
Letters concerning Persia, Afghanistan and the arms trade
Scope & Content:
This item contains three documents: 1. A copy of a letter from Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bombay Castle and dated 4 May 1799. In response to Jones’s letter of 25 March (IOR/L/PS/9/76/60) concerning an embassy rumoured...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Feb 1799-1 Jul 1799
Extent:
1 item (3 folios)