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2201. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 24v-25

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 24v-25
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, encloses a transmission of a dispatch to the Persian Secretary to the Supreme Government, dated 26 February. The dispatch, which is addressed to George Swinton, precedes this letter. In the dispatch, Bruce acknowledges the receipt of Supreme Gov...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1820
Extent:
2 folios

2202. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 26v-27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 26v-27
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
This letter relays accounts received from the broker at Katife [Al-Qatif]. According to the broker, the young pretender to the Wahabee [Wahhābī] chieftainship is expected daily at Saheessa [Al-Ahsa?]. William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, reports that the former Governor of Katife, Shaik Saddoon, s...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Mar 1820
Extent:
2 folios

2203. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 27v-28

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 27v-28
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, states that a private correspondent has informed him that His Royal Highness the Prince, who is assembling troops for the expedition to Bahrain, has received instructions not to allow any of his troops to embark until His Highness has agreed to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Mar 1820
Extent:
2 folios

2204. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 29v-30

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 29v-30
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, reports the loss of the Honourable Company cruiser Ariel, which foundered in a squall about fifteen miles south east of Karrack [Jazīreh-ye Khārk], on its way from Bussora [Basra] to Bushire, on the morning of 18 March 1820. Bruce states that on...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1820
Extent:
2 folios

2205. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 30v-31

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 30v-31
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Major General William Grant Keir
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, responds to an enquiry into the cost of procuring and sending to Calcutta some mares and a few desert Arab stallions. Bruce acknowledges that the rates that he has given may appear high, but he explains that this is due to the high rate of frei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1820
Extent:
2 folios

2206. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 31v-33

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 31v-33
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, relays news, received from Major General Sir William Grant Keir, that His Royal Highness the Prince [Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mīrzā, Governor of Fars] has disbanded his forces and given up his intentions regarding Bahrain. Bruce states that he went to Ahram...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1820
Extent:
3 folios

2207. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 34v-35

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 34v-35
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to the Accountant, Military Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, transmits a muster roll, an abstract, some bills of supplies and an account current for military disbursements at the Residency for the month of April. Transmissions not included.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1820
Extent:
2 folios

2208. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 35-36

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 35-36
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Captain Thomas Perronet Thompson, Commanding in Rasselkhyma [Ra's al-Khaymah]
Scope & Content:
In this letter, William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, acknowledges the receipt of Captain Thomas Perronet Thompson's letter of 11 March 1820, in which Thompson requested water supplies for the garrison station under his command. Bruce promises to send a set of coopers - with casks and kegs - on boa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Apr 1820
Extent:

2 folios

2209. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 36v-37

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 36v-37
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Captain Thomas Perronet Thompson, Commanding at Rasselkhyma [Ra's al-Khaymah]
Scope & Content:
This letter follows on from William Bruce's earlier letter to Captain Thomas Perronet Thompson, dated 2 April 1820 (see ff 35-36), in which Bruce promised to send supplies of water to Rasselkhyma [Ra's al-Khaymah]. In this letter, Bruce informs Thompson that the Dolphin bugulah [buggalow] proceed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1820
Extent:
2 folios

2210. IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 39v-40

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 39v-40
Title:
Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to the Honourable Mountstuart Elphinstone, President and Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
In this letter William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, delivers news of an agreement between His Highness the Imam of Muscat [Sa‘īd bin Sultān Āl Sa‘īd] and the Shaiks [Shaikhs] of Bahrain. The details of the agreement include an annual tribute of 30,000 German crowns, which is to be paid to His Hig...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1820
Extent:
2 folios

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