Letter from Charles Crommelin, Thomas Byfield, John Spencer, Charles Waters, Samuel Court, and Cecil Bowyer, President and Council at Bombay Castle, to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter informs of damage done to goods assigned to Bushire during gales off Bombay.
Letter from Robert Garden and Dymoke Lyster, East India Company Factors at Bussorah [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter is cover for a shipment of tin and expresses regret that no perpets could be sent. Relays orders from Bombay that no ship should be detained in the Gulf for longer than a month.
Letter from Charles Crommelin, William Andrew Price, John Spencer, Charles Waters, Samuel Court, Cecil Bowyear, President and Council at Bombay, to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter informs of Peter Elwin Wrench's appointment as Agent in the Persian Gulf and that 1% consulage is to be collected on all trade at Bushire.
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, Robert Garden, and Dymoke Lyster, Agent and Council at Bussorah [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter covers a shipment of stationery and informs that Mr Natter travels to Bushire to assist at the Residency.
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussorah [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter is a further complaint that copies of commands from Bombay are not being forwarded to Basra, and that news of Karim Khan's offers and demands should also have been sent to Basra first. It covers a supply of stationery, orders that accounts are to be sent every month, and advises that ...
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter questions Jervis' excuse for a lack of communication, arguing that there were vessels available and two sailed from Bushire to Basra recently. A complaint is made about a lack of news on the linguists visit to Ispahaun [Isfahan] to get confirmation of the Company's grants. The need fo...
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter is an order to send surplus cash to Bombay and to write to the Company's broker at Muscat regarding suspicions that he removed a mast and anchor from a trankey that belonged to the Company.
Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter discusses the mistake the linguist made when having the Company's grants confirmed by Carem Caun [Karim Khan] by inserting the name Busheab instead of Bushire. The order is given for him to return to Isfahan and have this rectified immediately.
Letter from Charles Crommelin, William Hornby, William Andrew Price, Charles Waters, Cecil Bowyer, and Rawson Hart Boddam, President and Council at Bombay Castle, to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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The letter covers a shipment of sundry goods aboard the London and gives instructions as to how to transport items for Bussora [Basra] from Bushire. Also asks whether a surplus of scarlet Worsters [Worcesters] at Bombay will sell at Bushire.