Letters from Harford Jones to Jonathan Duncan and Lieutenant-Colonel Harcourt
Date:
1802/1802
Description:
Abstract: This item contains copies of two letters:1. A letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], 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 [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/9/76/245.2. A letter from Harford Jones to Lieutenant-Colonel Harcourt, sent from Bagdad and dated 30 June 1802, concerning the transit of dispatches to London.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)