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 Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], dated 23 November 1801. The letter concerns attempts to transport cowpox samples to India for purposes of inoculation against smallpox. Jones as...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, to Charles Mills, Chairman of the Court of Directors for Affairs of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies [East India Company], sent from Bagdad [Baghdad] and dated 19 February 1802. The letter forwards v...
A copy of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 6 April 1802. The letter concerns the transit of mail.
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.
A petition in Arabic to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] from inhabitants of Bussora [Basra], concerning the detention of an Egyptian woman living with a British sailor in Bussora (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/299). An English version of the petition can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/299.
A letter in Farsi from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad], dated 14 May 1803. An English version of this letter can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/316.
This item contains copies of two letters from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal: 1. The first letter, sent from Maghil [Al Ma’qil] and dated 18 May 1803, forwards correspondence with the Chairman and Secret Committee of the Court of D...
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Maghil [Al Ma’qil] and dated 9 May 1803. The letter forwards an extract of Manesty’s letter to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, of the same date (catalogued as I...