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571. IOR/L/PS/9/76/162

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/162
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin
Scope & Content:
An extract of a letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Lord Elgin, HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, sent from Bagdad and dated 20 June 1801. The letter complains of the conduct of the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā] towards Jones and asks Elgin to intercede with the Porte...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1801
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

572. IOR/L/PS/9/76/182

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/182
Title:
Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin
Scope & Content:
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 5 September 1801. Jones reports that he has reached an agreement with the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] not to leave the city....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1801-5 Sep 1801
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

573. IOR/L/PS/9/76/275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/275
Title:
Letters from Meerza Bozurg to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
Translations of two letters from Meerza Bozurg [Mīrzā ‘Īsá Khān Farāhānī, Vizier to the Crown Prince of Persia] to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad]. The first letter states that Meerza Bozurg will monitor French overtures to Persia [Iran] and discusses a proposed Persian campaign aga...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c Sep 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

574. IOR/L/PS/9/76/290

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/290
Title:
Letters from Samuel Briggs and Lord Elgin
Scope & Content:
This item contains copies of two letters: 1. A letter from Samuel Briggs, Proconsul and Agent of the Levant Company in Alexandria, to Peter Tooke, Agent of the East India Company in Constantinople [Istanbul], sent from Alexandria and dated 19 October 1802. The letter reports: the departure of L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1802-10 Nov 1802
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

575. IOR/L/PS/9/76/333

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/333
Title:
Letter from Samuel Manesty to Harford Jones
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], sent from Bussora and dated 17 December 1803. Manesty reports that he intends to leave Bussora on a diplomatic mission to the Court of Persia [Iran] in Tehran, asking Jones to fo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1803
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

576. IOR/L/PS/9/76/334

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/334
Title:
Letters between Samuel Manesty and Jonathan Lovett
Scope & Content:
This item contains copies of two letters: 1. A letter from Jonathan Henry Lovett, Resident in Bushire [Bushehr], to Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], sent from Bushire and dated 1 December 1803. Lovett reports that he has been summoned to the Court of Persia [Iran] in Tehran to add...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Dec 1803-17 Dec 1803
Extent:
1 item (4 folios)

577. IOR/L/PS/9/76/372

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/76/372
Title:
Letter from Samuel Manesty to Marquess Wellesley
Scope & Content:
A copy of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora [Basra], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bussora and dated 2 January 1805. The letter reports the capture of the ships Shannon and Trimmer in the Persian Gulph [Gulf] by the Gausemee Arabs [al-Qawāsim] of R...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jan 1805
Extent:
1 item (2 folios)

578. IOR/L/PS/9/67/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/67/4
Title:
‘Abstract of Captain Grants Journal of a Route through the Western parts of Mekran’
Scope & Content:
A copy of an abstract of the journal of Captain Charles Grant, recording his journey through the western parts of Mekran [Makran], on the orders of Brigadier-General John Malcolm, for the main purpose of ascertaining how a European army could travel through this region to Scind [Sindh]. The copy...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1809-1811
Extent:

1 item (8 folios)

579. IOR/L/PS/9/69/161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/161
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 12 Feb 1824
Scope & Content:
A statement showing the estimated charges and expenses for transporting merchandise between Russia and India, accompanying a proposal for a Russian East India Company sent by an unknown English adventurer to the Imperial Court of the Russian Empire (IOR/L/PS/9/69/162). The statement was enclose...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Feb 1824
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

580. IOR/L/PS/9/69/206

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/9/69/206
Title:
Enclosure in Letter from Henry Willock to the Secret Committee of 14 Jul 1824
Scope & Content:
A list of documents sent by Ephraim Stannus, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], relating to trade in the Gulf (IOR/L/PS/9/69/192-205). The list was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1823
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)