Letters from Harford Jones to Marquess Wellesley and Jonathan Duncan
IOR/L/PS/9/76/245
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The record is made up of 1 item (3 folios). It was created in 31 May 1802-20 Jun 1802. 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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This item contains copies of two letters:
1. A letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, sent from Bagdad and dated 20 June 1802. The letter forwards intercepted letters from a French traveller in Caboul [Kabul] (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/235-238 and 247). Jones pledges to continue to monitor this correspondence and pass on intelligence. The letter also forwards reports from an informant ‘employed to the Northward’ (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/243).
A duplicate of this letter can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/249.
2. A letter from Harford Jones to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, sent from Bagdad and dated 31 May 1802. The letter concerns payment for a shipment of gunpowder for the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] which was captured in the Gulf, and a shipment of cloth which was lost at the bar of the Bussora [Basra] River [Shatt al-Arab].
A duplicate of this letter can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/254.
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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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- 31 May 1802-20 Jun 1802 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Letters from Harford Jones to Marquess Wellesley and Jonathan Duncan
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- 1r:3v
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