Letter from John Wedderburn, Civil Auditor, Public Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter is enclosing an extract from the Bushire accounts and discussing adjustments that would be required as some items had been thrown overboard.
Letter from John Pringle of the Eliza, Bushire to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter informs the Resident that the Eliza will depart Bushire on 28 March 1818; it requests that he will have his dispatches, and port certificate ready, and that he supply a pilot. It also includes a list of passengers.
Letter from Claudius Rich, Baghdad to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter is a circular regarding the transmission of private correspondence between Baghdad and Constantinople; it reports that private letters will not be transported by East India Company packet.
Letter from Richard Sharp, Assistant Surgeon at Bushire to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letters complains of the lack of a hospital at Bushire and conveys a request from the Assistant Surgeon to be paid the same salary as the medical officer at Bussora [Basra].
Letter from Henry Willock, HM Charge d'affairs at the Court of Persia to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter is enclosing a Royal firman addressed to the Prince of Shiraz, which orders that packages to the English at Tehran or Tabriz should not incur any duties, but to beware that merchants do not use this exemption to send goods.
Letter from Edward Barnard, Captain of HMS Conway to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter requests that the Resident publicizes his intention to have a convoy of ships leave the Gulf for India on 14 June 1818. It also asks to have any urgent dispatches forwarded to him at Helila Bay during his stay there.
