Letters 98-100 Colonel Isaac Barré, Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London to John Dorrien and Laurence Sulivan giving recommendation for Mr John Shrympton, now a Lieutenant in the Company's service
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Folios 187-188: Colonel Barré's recommendation of Mr Shrympton to John Dorrien;Folio 189: Colonel Barré's note to Laurence Sulivan giving the date of Lieutenant Shrympton's commission;Folio 190: Note from Laurence Sulivan to Robert James that the papers received regarding Mr Shrympton are suffici...
Letters 273-281 Henry Grenville, Ambassador at Constantinople, to the Court of Directors regarding the Company's affairs at Bussorah [Basra] and of a Turkish Imperial Firman confirming Mr Robert Garden as Consul at that place, with enclosures.
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Enclosures, received 22 October 1764 in the Honourable Henry Grenville's letter dated 15 September 1764: ff. 562-563, Letter 274, 29 August 1764, translation into Italian from the Persic of the Grand Signiors Birat to Mr Robert Garden to be Consul at Bussa [Basra]; ff. 564-565, Letter 275, 29 Au...
Letter 48 James Tod, Free Merchant for Bombay, in London to the Court of Directors to take his wife with him and a black boy named Hampshire, lately from Bombay