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IOR/L/PS/9/76/43
- Record Id:
- 041-003710951
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544463
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100109378671.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100125769351.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/9/76/43
- Title:
- Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas
- Scope & Content:
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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 intelligence from French-occupied Egypt
- An arrangement with the Pashaw for communication with Constantinople [Istanbul], by which Jones will collect and forward intelligence from Europe
- The arrest and transfer under guard to Constantinople of the French Consul Jean-François Rousseau
- Affairs in Persia [Iran] and the Pashaw’s plans to send an embassy to Baba Khan [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Persia].
The letter also forwards a copy of the Proclamation issued by General Napoleon Bonaparte on landing in Egypt (IOR/L/PS/9/76/42) and an intelligence report from Caboul [Kabul] (IOR/L/PS/9/76/41).
Another version of this letter is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/44.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544463
037-000544535
040-003710908
041-003710951 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/9 : Correspondence relating to areas outside India
IOR/L/PS/9/67-78 : Secret Letters and Enclosures from Persia, Iraq, Syria, etc.
IOR/L/PS/9/76 : Letters from Iraq 1781-1805
IOR/L/PS/9/76/43 : Letter from Harford Jones to Henry Dundas - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0009]/036-000544463[0005]/037-000544535[0010]/040-003710908[0043]/041-003710951
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (2 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100109378671.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1781
- End Date:
- 1805
- Date Range:
- 31 Oct 1798
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)