Abstract: 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 [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.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
Abstract: A copy of an intercepted letter from Caboul [Kabul] from a French author to a correspondent in Paris, dated 8 March 1802.The author recounts his journey across India via Cachemire [Kashmir] to Caboul in a period of civil war, and his hopes to travel to Candahar [Kandahar] and Persia [Iran] and return to France. A postscript enquires after papers and objects sent by the author to Europe, remarks on the state of affairs in Cachemire, and complains of being surrounded by spies working for the English Government.A duplicate of this letter can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/249. An English translation of this letter is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/237.This letter was enclosed in the letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 20 June 1802 (IOR/L/PS/9/76/245).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: An intercepted letter from a French author in Caboul [Kabul] to a correspondent in Spanish Biscay, dated 8 March 1802.The author recounts his journey across India via Cachemire [Kashmir] to Caboul in a period of civil war, and his hopes to travel to Candahar [Kandahar] and Persia [Iran] and return home.A duplicate of this letter can be found in IOR/L/PS/9/76/249. An English translation of this letter is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/236.This letter was enclosed in the letter from Harford Jones, Resident in Bagdad [Baghdad], to Marquess Wellesley, Governor-General of Bengal, dated 20 June 1802 (IOR/L/PS/9/76/245).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)
Abstract: A copy of a letter from John Robinson, Member of Parliament, to Laurence Sulivan, Chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Syon Hill [Isleworth, Middlesex] and dated 30 August 1781.The letter passes on a petition from a Mr Burke, regarding the treatment of his relative Mr W Burke who has not been allowed to travel from Bussora [Basra] to India with Gilbert Seton, and asks the Court of Directors to instruct William Digges Latouche, Resident in Bussora, to facilitate W Burke’s passage.Physical description: 1 item (3 folios)
Abstract: 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], attached. Jones pledges to continue to monitor this correspondence and pass on intelligence. The letter also forwards reports from an informant ‘employed to the Northward’.A duplicate of this letter is catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/245.Attached are:1. Two intercepted letters from a French author in Caboul to correspondents in Paris and Spanish Biscay, dated March 1802. The author recounts his journey across India via Cachemire [Kashmir] to Caboul in a period of civil war, and his hopes to travel to Candahar [Kandahar] and Persia [Iran] and return home.Duplicates of these letters are catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/238 and 247. English translations are catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/235-2372. Translations of two letters from an informant of Harford Jones dated 3 and 8 May 1802.The letters concern Russian activity in the Caucasus and Caspian Sea, reporting: movements of Russian troops and ships; embassies from Shaku [Shaki] and Shirvan [Sirvan] to Tehran seeking assistance against Russia; and the planned flight of Armenian merchants from Baku, Enzelee [Bandar-e Anzali], Ghilan [Gilan], and Tehran in anticipation of conflict.Duplicates of these letter are catalogued as IOR/L/PS/9/76/243.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 34 of 1850, dated 25 June 1850. The enclosures are numbered 3-8 and are dated 11 April to 13 June 1850.Most of the item consists of an account of a journey undertaken by Commander James Felix Jones of the Indian Navy, for determining the tract of the ancient Nahrwan [Nahrawan] Canal in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq, also written as Arabia Irak in this item], dated 20 September 1849, enclosed in a letter from the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy, Commander Stephen Lushington, to the President and Governor in Council of Bombay, Viscount Falkland (enclosure No. 3). The maps, plans and illustrations mentioned in the letter are not included in this item. Lushington also encloses a Contingent Bill of the expenses incurred by Commander Jones during his visit to the Nahrwan Canal.The account is comprised of two sections:‘Preliminary remarks on the Nahrwan Canal with a glance at the past history of its province’, which discusses matters including: conjectures about the origin and cause of the construction of the canal; the derivation of the name; and a general geological and geographical description of the tract watered by the combined streams of the Katul al Kesrawi [al-katul al-Kisrawi] and Nahrwan‘Narrative of a journey undertaken for determining the track of the Ancient Nahrwan Canal’, undertaken in Spring 1848.Enclosure Nos. 4-8 consist of a related minute of the Government of Bombay and brief correspondence between the following: the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Henry Edward Goldsmid; the Chief Engineer, Bombay, Lieutenant-Colonel George Ritso Jervis; the Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Navy; and the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Sir Henry Elliot. The correspondence discusses matters including Jones’s narrative being presented to the Bombay Geographical Society.Physical description: 1 item (97 folios)
Abstract: This document is a cypher telegram sent from the High Commissioner for Trans-Jordan [Emirate of Transjordan] to the Secretary of State for the Colonies relating to the potential passage of a son and two grandsons of the Sultan of Lahej through Transjordan on their way from Egypt to Aden.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 4; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains papers regarding a meeting between Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and William Wedgwood Benn, Secretary of State for India. The meeting was at the Resident’s request and took place in London in June 1931. The main topics of conversation were the proposed relocation of the Residency from Bushire to Bahrain, and the potential purchase of a ship for the Resident’s use. The primary correspondent is the India Office.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 482, and terminates at f 513, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains a letter from the Dominions Office to the India Office, with a request to secure facilities for safe passage of Mr Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia, on his journey through British possessions to the United Kingdom, and in particular to secure news censorship of his movements during this time. The file also contains a draft telegram to this effect, which was prepared by the Dominions Office and enclosed with the aforementioned letter, for the India Office to send to the Government of India.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 4; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file contains a letter from the Foreign Office to the India Office, communicating the desire of Viscount Halifax, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, that facilities for safe passage should be extended to Mr Fazlollah Nabil, Counsellor of the Persian Legation in London, as he travels to Tehran with Legation documents. The file also contains a copy of a letter sent from the India Office to the Indian Political Service, External Affairs Department, requesting that the local authorities be instructed to extend such facilities.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 5; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This item consists of copies of a Political Despatch from the Government of India Foreign Department to the Secretary of State for India, dated 27 March 1874 and received in the India Office Secret Department on 18 April 1874, forwarding for information a copy of papers from HM Minister at Teheran [Tehran] to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs regarding the projected journey to Meshed [Mashhad] which the Shah of Persia [Iran] at one time proposed to undertake.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with f 302 and terminates at f 306, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The sequence contains two foliation anomalies: f 302a and f 304a.
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of a copy of an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 74 of 1840, dated 24 September 1840.The enclosures are dated 6 June-24 September 1840. They consist of correspondence relating to the passage of officers from the Euphrates to Bombay [Mumbai] and then on to Liverpool.Correspondents include the Commandant of the Depot at Maghil [Al Ma‘qil] and the Superintendent of the Indian Navy.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)