Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin
IOR/L/PS/9/76/172
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 3 Sep 1801. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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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 3 September 1801.
Jones states that he is planning to leave Bagdad for a location south of the city along with the Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. staff, despite the objections of the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad].
The letter also conveys reports from Persia [Iran], Afghanistan, and the Caucasus, including: reports that Hossein Kouli Khan [Ḥusyan Qulī Khān Qājār] has captured Ispahan [Isfahan]; reports of executions carried out by Hossein Kouli Khan and the King [Fatḥ-‘Alī Shāh Qājār, Shāh of Persia]; reports of a defeat of Zeman Shah [Zamān Shāh Durrānī, Ruler of Afghanistan] to his brother Shah Zadeh Mahmood [Maḥmūd Shāh Durrānī]; and reports of a Russian incursion into Georgia.
A duplicate of this letter is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/180.
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- British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.
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- 3 Sep 1801 (CE, Gregorian)
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- PersiaAfghanistan
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- Ruler of the Afghan EmpireResident, BaghdadGovernor of BaghdadShah of Persia, Qajar dynasty
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- Letter from Harford Jones to Lord Elgin
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- 1r:2v
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