Letter from Thomas Hodges, East India Company Governor at Bombay, and Daniel Draper, James Ryley, Rawson Hart Boddam, and Benjamin Jervis, and Nathaniel Stackhouse, all part of the Council at Bombay Castle, to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter gives the information that the ships Revenge and Essex have left Bombay for Bushire, with George Green, the new Assistant Resident at Bushire, aboard the Essex.
Letter from Henry Moore, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter containing orders to send all ships that arrive from Bombay up to Bussora [Basra] after removing anything relative to Bushire or the negotiations with Carim Caun [Karim Khan] and to provide George Skipp with any woollens he requires at Schrass [Shiraz]. The exact date of the letter is ob...
Letter from George Skipp, at Schyrass [Shiraz], to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire
Scope & Content:
The letter assures Morely that he will discuss with Shaik Nassir (Shaykh Nāsir) the matter of rent for the factory at Bushire during his stay in Shiraz.
Letter from George Skipp, in Bussora [actually Shiraz*], to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire, and his assistant, George Green
Scope & Content:
The letter is cover for a packet (not present) to be forwarded on to the Agency at Basra. *Although it is written that the letter originated from Bussora [Basra], it is known that George Skipp was in Shiraz at this time. There is evidence in the letter itself with its request for things to be f...
Letter from George Skipp, in Shyrass [Shiraz], to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire, and his assistant, George Green
Scope & Content:
The letter informs that Skipp has drawn a loan from the Residency at Bushire to be debted to the Agency at Basra. There is also a request for copies of the original grants given by the Vackeel (Karim Khan) to the East India Company in 1763 to be sent to him in Shiraz.
Letter from Charles Elphinstone and Lawrence Nilson, aboard the Revenge at sea, to James Morley, East India Company Resident at Bushire, and his assistant, George Green
Scope & Content:
The letter informs that they are unable to join the fleet off Carrack [Kharg] owing to strong northwesterlies.