Letter from Lieutenant William Bruce, Acting Resident, Bushire, to James Orton, Assistant Surgeon, Bushire
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Letter places James Orton in temporary charge of the Residency while William Bruce is attending to public business in Muscat. Includes instructions on how to deal with public letters and deliveries of arms or stores. Also includes a list of packages and letters addressed to His Excellency Sir Gor...
Letter from Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to John Kaye, Accountant General, Bombay
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Letter concerns an invoice for a consignment of marine stores, which William Bruce agrees to credit in the Residency books to the head of Accounts Current, Bombay.
Letter from Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to James Farish, Secretary to the Government, Bombay
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Bruce gives reasons for the delay in sending supplies of sulphur to Madras, and confirms that he has sent twenty bales of native sulphur on board the Mornington.