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1501. IOR/G/29/38, ff 426-427

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 426-427
Title:
Letter from William Hamilton, Foreign Office, to Mr Jones, Board of Control, 6 March 1810
Scope & Content:
The item consists of a letter from William Richard Hamilton, Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, to Benjamin Jones, Assistant Secretary at the Board of Control. The letter is a request that any books of correspondence relating to diplomatic missions to Persia [Iran] be sent to the Fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

1502. IOR/G/29/18/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/18/1
Title:
Persia Factory Records: Letters from Basra (1724-1731), Pt 1
Scope & Content:
This volume contains letters sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussorah [Basra] between 19 April 1725 and 25 September 1726. It includes material relating to: The rivalry of the English at Tillicherry [Thalassery] with the French at Mihie [Mahé] The trading privileges obtained fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Apr 1725-25 Dec 1726
Extent:
1 volume (117 folios)

1503. IOR/G/29/38, ff 240-243

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/38, ff 240-243
Title:
Papers tending to prove the apprehensions entertained by our Governments in India of an invasion of Hindostan by Zemaun Shah during the administration of Lord Wellesley, and shewing that the Embassy to Persia was undertaken for the purpose of creating a diversion against the Shah
Scope & Content:
The item consists of abstracts of political and secret letters from the governments of Bombay and Bengal. The letters date from 3 October 1798 to 28 September 1801 and concern attempts by Zaman Shah Durrani [Zamān Shāh Durrānī] to conquer Hindostan [subcontinental India] and British efforts to co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1807
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

1504. IOR/G/29/32, f 526

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, f 526
Title:
Extract of a letter from Mr Hine to Sir Harford Jones dated Bagdad Dec 20th 1806
Scope & Content:
Extract of a letter from John Hine, Acting Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Sir Harford Jones, late Resident in Bagdad. The letter concerns Jones's suggestion that the British broker a reconciliation between Russia and Persia [Iran].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1806
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

1505. IOR/G/29/32, ff 527-528

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 527-528
Title:
Extract of a letter from John Hine Esq dated at Bagdad 20th April 1807, to Sir Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Extract of a letter from John Hine, Acting Resident at Bagdad [Baghdad], to Sir Harford Jones, late Resident at Bagdad. The extract mentions: rumours that Jones has been captured by the French on his way back to England; an incident in Constantinople [Istanbul] involving someone called 'Secunder'...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Apr 1807
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

1506. IOR/G/29/30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/30
Title:
Letters and Enclosures from Sir Harford Jones (His Majesty's Envoy to Persia) to The Right Honble Robt Dundas (President of the Right Honble The Commissioners for the Affairs of India.), from 12th June 1807 to 8th Sep 1808, Vol: 1.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of correspondence, journal extracts, and intelligence reports relating to Sir Harford Jones’s diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran] in 1808. The papers reflect the purposes and practicalities of the mission and cover the following matters: Jones’s progress from England ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1807-13 Dec 1808
Extent:
1 volume (462 folios)

1507. IOR/G/29/31

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/31
Title:
Letters and Enclosures from Sir Harford Jones (Envoy to Persia) to Mr Dundas (President of the India Board), Dated 11th January 1809 to 28th July 1810, Vol: 3.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of correspondence, firmans, and other documents relating to Sir Harford Jones's diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran], 1807-1811. Much of the volume consists of updates from Jones sent from Schyras [Shiraz, also written Sheerauz in this volume], Tahran [Tehran], and Tau...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, French, and Persian
Date Range:
11 Jan 1809-28 Jul 1810
Extent:
1 volume (221 folios)

1508. IOR/G/29/32, ff 679-697

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/32, ff 679-697
Title:
Contents of Dispatches from Sir Harford Jones to the Secret Committee, Numbers 1-11
Scope & Content:
Summaries of the content of dispatches from Sir Harford Jones to the Secret Committee. The papers relate to Jones's diplomatic mission to Persia [Iran].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1810-4 Jun 1810
Extent:
1 item (19 folios)

1509. IOR/G/29/25, ff 1-6

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/25, ff 1-6
Title:
Correspondence of the East India Company with Lord Halifax
Scope & Content:
Home correspondence of the East India Company (EIC) with Lord Halifax [George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax], Secretary of State for the Northern Department, with an enclosed letter to Mr Henry Grenville, His Majesty’s Ambassador at Constantinople [Istanbul]. The correspondence is concerned ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1764
Extent:
1 item (6 folios)

1510. IOR/G/29/36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/G/29/36
Title:
Letters and Enclosures on Persia to the Secret Department, 1809-1810
Scope & Content:
This volume comprises a single packet addressed to the Secret Department, containing transcripts and supplementary duplicate copies of secret letters, excerpts of intelligence reports, itineraries, travel accounts, translated diplomatic letters, treaties, royal edicts or firmaun [farmān], and tra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Feb 1809-12 Mar 1810
Extent:
1 volume (362 folios)