An extract from an anonymous letter from Bussorah [Basra], dated 31 May 1781. Subjects covered include: The presumed death of a French traveller heading inland from Scanderoon [Iskenderun] The supposed loyalty of local ‘Arabs’ [tribes] to William Digges Latouche, Resident in Bussorah, after he h...
An extract of a letter from Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople and dated 1 August 1801. The letter concerns the transit of mail and issues involving ‘Tartars’ [couriers], and forward...
An extract of a letter from Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople and dated 1 August 1801. The letter concerns the transit of mail and issues concerning ‘Tartars’ [couriers], forwarding...
An extract of a letter from Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Constantinople and dated 1 August 1801. The letter concerns the transit of mail and issues involving ‘Tartars’ [couriers], and forward...
This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 71 of 1850, dated 3 December 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-7 and are dated 3 November to 2 December 1850. A note in red ink, dated 1 Novemb...
Copies of three letters from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. The first letter, sent from Bagdad and dated 23 August 1800, concerns the transit of mail and the arrest and banishment by the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of ...
An extract of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to John Barker, Proconsul in Aleppo, dated 24 August 1800. The letter complains of the conduct of couriers carrying dispatches from Aleppo to Bagdad, and asks Barker to take steps to address this.
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bussora and dated 5 October 1801. The letter concerns the transit of mail and arrangements for a meeting between Jones and Manesty at Coote [Kut].
An extract of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Mughil [Al-Ma‘qil] and dated 12 February 1803. The letter concerns the transit of mail.