Extract of Letter from Samuel Manesty to Jonathan Duncan [‎4v] (8/8)

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Extract of Letter from Samuel Manesty to Jonathan Duncan

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Ref: IOR/L/PS/9/76/322

The record is made up of 1 item (4 folios). It was created in 9 May 1803. 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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An extract of a letter from Samuel Manesty, Resident in Bussora, to Jonathan Duncan, Governor of Bombay, dated 9 May 1803.

The letter concerns a dispute between Manesty and the Bacha [‘Alī Pāshā al-Kahyah, Governor of Baghdad] arising from the detention in Bussora of an Egyptian woman living with a British sailor (see IOR/L/PS/9/76/299), and forwards related correspondence. Manesty proposes leaving for India, meeting with the Governor-General of Bengal, and establishing new arrangements for British representation in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. [Ottoman Iraq].

This extract was enclosed in Manesty’s letter to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 9 May 1803 (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/323).

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Reference: IOR/L/PS/9/76/322
Title: Extract of Letter from Samuel Manesty to Jonathan Duncan
Pages: 1r:4v
Author: East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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