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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 197-197v
Title:: 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
Scope & Content:: The letter covers a shipment of stationery and informs that Mr Natter travels to Bushire to assist at the Residency.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 9 Aug 1764
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 198-198v
Title:: Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussorah [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:: 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 ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 Sep 1764
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 199-199v
Title:: Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 Oct 1764
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 201
Title:: Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:: The letter is cover for accounts and includes an account of provisions for lascars, dated 26 January 1765.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Jan 1765
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 201-201v
Title:: Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Jan 1765
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 201v
Title:: Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Jan 1765
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 203
Title:: 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
Scope & Content:: 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.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 Nov 1764
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 203v
Title:: Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, Robert Garden, and Dymoke Lyster, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:: The letter goes through the logistics of getting a shipment of goods to Basra via the Tartar and a packet to Bombay either aboard the London or via Muscatt [Muscat]. There is a request for updates on Carem Caun's [Karim Khan] movements around Cormooge [Khormoj].
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 17 Feb 1765
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 205
Title:: Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Dymoke Lyster, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:: The letter responds to Jervis' detention of the Tartar for use in assisting the Caun [Karim Khan] against Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muhanna]. He argues that the matter should be referred to the President and Council at Bombay and that, according to reports in Basra, Mīr Muhanna has now made peace with K...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Apr 1765
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/1/1, f 205v
Title:: Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Dymoke Lyster, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:: The letter discusse the employmeny of the Tartar, which is detained at Bushire. The author asks why it was not sent to Khish [Kish Island] to try and recover the goods stolen from the Islamabad. Also reports that Carem Caun's forces are still in the Basra area with the intention of attacking the...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 May 1765
Extent:: 1 folio

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