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241. IOR/R/15/1/3, pp 147-148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, pp 147-148
Title:
Letter No. 111 to Rawson Hart Boddam, President and Governor for the Political and Secret Department, Council at Bombay, from Edward Galley at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter provides an update on the situation in Persia including news that Jaffer Khan has retreated to Shiraz and Mahomed Khan [Mohammad Khan Qajar] is in the ascendancy.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Jun 1786
Extent:
2 folios

242. IOR/R/15/1/3, pp 154-155

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, pp 154-155
Title:
Letter No. 127, Translation of a letter from Jaffer Khan, at his camp near Kawzaroon, to the Bushire Residency
Scope & Content:
This letter, which is dated in the month Saffir, in the year of the Hejira 1201, was received 24 December 1786. The letter reports the arrival of two European gentlemen (John Morrison and John Bigges) at Jaffer Khan's camp who claimed to have been sent by the King of England and to have business ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1786
Extent:
1 folio

243. IOR/R/15/1/3, pp 166-167

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, pp 166-167
Title:
Letter No. 149 to Rawson Hart Boddam, President and Governor for the Political and Secret Department, Council at Bombay, from Charles Watkins at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter provides a brief update of events in Persia and gives news that Bussora [Basra] has been taken by Sheikh Twiney of the Montifick Arabs [Shaikh Thuwayni of the Muntafiq]. The letter also reports details concerning the arrival of a French gentleman at Bushire.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1787
Extent:
1 folio

244. IOR/R/15/1/3, p 104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, p 104
Title:
Letter No. 29 to the Commander of the Viper Cutter, or any of the Honourable Company's Cruizers, from Edward Galley at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter requesting the reader of it to take on board Bussora [Basra] Resident Latouche and take him to India. The letter also asks the reader to accept on board a Frenchman charged with dispatches to French commanders in India. Shipped by Major Gils, an officer of the Madras Establishment.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Aug 1783
Extent:
1 folio

245. IOR/R/15/1/3, p 126

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, p 126
Title:
Letter No. 73 to Samuel Manesty, in Charge of the Honourable East India Company at Bussora [Basra], from Edward Galley at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter provides details - via a Banyan Merchant - of news that three French ships had arrived at Muscat with the intention of establishing a 'house' there (a request which was refused by Sheikh Calfaun).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Sep 1785
Extent:
1 folio

246. IOR/R/15/1/3, p 136 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, p 136 1
Title:
Letter No. 90 to Jonathan Swift, Commander of the Marine and Commander of the Honourable Company's Ship the Bombay Grab, from Edward Galley at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter in which Galley permits Swift to take on board freight at Bushire and a requests a manifest of anything taken on board.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Dec 1785
Extent:
1 folio

247. IOR/R/15/1/3, p 138 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, p 138 1
Title:
Letter No. 94 to Jonathan Swift, Commander of the Marine and Commander of the Honourable Company's Ship the Bombay Grab, from Edward Galley at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter orders Commander Swift to sail to Bussora [Basra] to deliver a packet to Mr Manesty and then take orders from him.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1785
Extent:
1 folio

248. IOR/R/15/1/3, p 139 2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, p 139 2
Title:
Letter No. 97 to Jonathan Swift, Commander of the Marine and Commander of the Honourable Company's Ship the Bombay Grab, from Edward Galley at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter in which Galley permits Swift to take on board freight at Bushire and a requests a manifest of anything taken on board.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Feb 1786
Extent:
1 folio

249. IOR/R/15/1/3, p 139 3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, p 139 3
Title:
Letter No. 98 to Jonathan Swift, Commander of the Marine and Commander of the Honourable Company's Ship the Bombay Grab, from Edward Galley at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter that commands Swift to sail to Bombay to deliver a packet to the Council and then take his orders from it.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1786
Extent:
1 folio

250. IOR/R/15/1/3, p 1 1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/3, p 1 1
Title:
Letter No. 1 to William Digges Latouche and George Abraham, Councils at Bussora [Basra], from John Beaumont and George Green at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter is a short note in which Beaumont and Green state that they have sent their books for the previous year (up to April 1778) and their monthly accounts for April to Bushire. Shipped by Abdul Rezah. The date span of the entire file (1778 to 1787) is marked on the top right-hand side of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1778
Extent:
1 folio