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*This [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Memoirs_of_Baghdad_Kurdistan_and_Turkish.html?id=d4hfAAAACAAJ link] gives details of the book ''Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857'' by J. F Jones , Indian Navy, a 1998 facsimile re-publication , one of the volumes in a series of Bombay Government Records, no. XLIII, new series published 1857 originally published with the title ''Memoirs by Commander James Felix Jones'' It includes "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad, 1855" which gives much information about Baghdad at that time. Reprint edition available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01011403809. Original edition available on the pay website [https://granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/handle/123456789/15202 Asiatic Society of Mumbai] granthsanjeevani.com.
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:Briefly mentions the Indo-European Telegraph Department connecting India with Baghdad, in the early 1860’s, the route being Karachi, Gwadur (Baluchistan), Fao (now Fawr, Iraq), Basra, Baghdad, (then part of greater Turkey), and from there to Europe.
*This [http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/english-literature-history-children39s-books-illustrations-l09773/lot.6.html link] (Sothebys) gives details of the papers and career of Sir Harford Jones. At the age of 19, Jones was posted to Basra in the service of the East India Company, to be assistant factor. He remained in the post for a decade (1783-1794). He was Resident in Baghdad from 1798 to 1804.
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/iraq.htm Iraq] Britishempire.co.uk
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010170201/http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/Iraq/iraq_041115_britsinmesopotamia.htm The British in Mesopotamia] stanford.edu, now archived.
History" in the [https://archive.org/web/web.php#forum Internet Archive Wayback Machine] to obtain the archived URL. Alternatively using the Internet Archive (archive.org) link [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mespot.co.uk/* mespot.co.uk] scroll down to entries containing the word journal, and then click on the link. However, these links are not all in date order.</ref>
===Historical books online===
*[''Selections from the Records of the Bombay Government. New series. no. 43''] ''Memoirs'' by Commander James Felix Jones I.N: ''steam-trip to the North of Baghdad in April 1846 with notes on various objects of interest en route : journey for the purpose of determining the tract of the ancient Nahrwan canal undertaken in April 1848 with a glance at the past history of the territory of the Nahrwan : journey to the frontier of Turkey and Persia through a part of Kurdistan : researches in the vicinity of the Median Wall of Xenophon and along the old course of the River Tigris and discovery of the site of the ancient Opis : memoir on the province of Baghdad : notes on the topography of Ninevah and the other cities of Assyria and on the general geography of the country between the Tigris and the upper Zab founded upon a trigonometrical survey made in the year 1852''. Published 1857.
:[https://archive.org/details/b29353439/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version] lacks title page, and including [https://archive.org/details/b29353439/page/302/mode/2up "Memoir on the Province of Baghdad. 1855"]. Includes coloured images and is a mirror from [https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b29353439 Wellcome Library] where pages are rotatable. Also available [http://ediscovery.qnl.qa/islandora/object/QNL%3A00013927 Qatar National Library] Read online or download. There may be difficulty opening the file. Also available on the pay website [https://granthsanjeevani.com/jspui/handle/123456789/15202 Asiatic Society of Mumbai] granthsanjeevani.com.
:There was a 1998 facsimile re-publication with the title ''Memoirs of Baghdad, Kurdistan & Turkish Arabia 1857'' by J. F Jones , Indian Navy.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77433 ''Oriental Memories of a German Diplomatist''] by Friedrich Rosen, 1930 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. The author was born 1856. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Rosen Friedrich Rosen] Wikipedia.
*'' A Handbook of Mesopotamia'' by Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division. 1916-1917. In four volumes, (plus a supplementary volume), the first contained matters of a general nature, the other volumes contain a description of the river and land routes. Maps were issued separately.
