Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to John Elphinston, Accountant General, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is forwarding disbursements and accounts (not present) for the Bushire Residency for May and June 1808. It further notes that a bill from Jaffer Ali Khan [Ja‘afar ‘Alī Khān] has gone missing.
Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to Jonathan Duncan, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter concerns an offer that William Bruce has accepted for some of the remaining goods stored at the warehouse. In addition, he has shipped off the remaining wool to Bussora [Basra] due to fears that they are no longer safe at Bushire via the bugula [buggalow] Haushamie.
Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to Jonathan Duncan, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is a notification of wool sold by William Bruce from the stock at the Bushire warehouse; information on the items sold and the price obtained has been supplied. It further explains that the price was the best that could be obtained considering their colour and condition.
Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to John Elphinston, Accountant General, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter is enclosing the disbursements (not present) for the month of July 1808, along with the Quick and Dead Stocks (also not present) up to 31 July 1808.
Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Secretary in the Secret, Political and Foreign Department, Fort William, Calcutta
Scope & Content:
The letter is forwarding a copy of instructions (not present) sent to William Bruce by Captain Charles Pasley, Acting Envoy Extraordinary to Persia, which placed him in charge of the Residency at Bushire.
Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to Brigadier-General John Malcolm
Scope & Content:
This letter is forwarding a copy of a letter of the same date from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire, to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Secretary in the Secret, Political and Foreign Department, Fort William (see f 124 1).