Letter from William Newnham, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is acknowledging the receipt of a communication from the Resident, dated 13 February 1819. It informs the Resident that the Governor of Bombay has granted him his requested leave in Bombay.
Letter from Richard Thomas Goodwin, Secretary and Translator in the Office of Country Correspondence, Bombay to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is informing the Resident that an accompanying parcel (not present) contains a present, for the Governor of Kirman [Kermān], of super fine cloth from the Governor of Bombay.
Letter from James Henderson, Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is acknowledging the receipt of a communication from the Resident, dated 26 February 1819, which regarded the measures adopted to secure the release of female British subjects taken by the Joasmees [Qawāsim] to Bahrain.
Letter from William Newnham, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is acknowledging the receipt of a communication from the Resident, dated 23 February 1819, which enclosed the new rates of pilotage due to come into effect from May 1819 for ships requiring pilots into Bussora [Basra].
Letter from William Newnham, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay to Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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The letter is informing the Resident that Captain George Forster Sadlier has been sent on a special mission to join Ibraham Pasha [Ibrāhim Pāshā], commanding the Turkish troops near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It instructs the Resident to provide him with every assistance required to ...
Letter from Claudius James Rich, Bagdad [Baghdad] to William Bruce, British Resident at Bushire
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The letter regards the allocation of the pension of the late Hajee Khaleel Khan [Hājjī Qulī Khān], whose relatives have been left destitute as a result of the conduct of Aga Ismail [Āghā Muḥammad Ismā’īl Khān]. It states that Claudius Rich believes the Resident at Bushire is familiar enough with ...
Letter from B J Woodhead, Master of the Eliza to William Bruce, British Resident at Bushire
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The letter is requesting the intervention of the Resident in a dispute between Mr Woodhead and Aga Abdolla [Āghā ‘Abdullāh]. The dispute centres on the heat of the weather preventing the shipping of horses from Bushire.