Extract of the Bagdad Residency Records
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Extract of the Bagdad Residency Records
- Date:
- 1802/1802
- Description:
- Abstract: An extract from the records of the Bagdad [Baghdad] Residency, consisting of a minute written by Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad, dated 13 February 1802.The minute concerns plague in Bagdad, describing the public punishment by the Pashaw [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad], with Jones’s encouragement, of a person spreading alarm about the plague, followed some days later by the Pashaw’s announcement that he intends to leave Bagdad. Jones describes his attempts to persuade the Pashaw not to leave the city, culminating in Jones threatening to stop British ships from coming to Bussora [Basra].The extract was enclosed in Jones’s letter to Charles Mills, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 19 February 1802 (catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/218).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Plague
Bubonic plague
Governor of Baghdad - Geographic region:
- Bagdad
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100109378873.0x000001_ar
81055/vdc_100109378873.0x000001_en
IOR/L/PS/9/76/215
IOR/L/PS/9/76/215