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Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Fort William, Calcutta [12v] (2/2)
The record is made up of 1 folio. It was created in 7 Jan 1811. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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The letter is informing the Supreme Government that the Acting Resident has been moved into temporary accommodation, while repairs are made to the factory An East India Company trading post. at Bushire by Mahomed Jaffer Khan [Muḥammad Ja‘afar Khān], Governor of Bushire. The repairs are expected the take between twenty days and one month; they have been prompted by a firmaun [ Firman A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’). ] from Ḥusayn ‘Alī Mirzā, the Prince at Shiraz, who ordered that it should be either repaired or torn down.
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Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Fort William, Calcutta [12v] (2/2), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/12, f 12 2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023623329.0x00001f> [accessed 26 March 2025]
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- Letter from William Bruce, Acting Resident at Bushire to Neil Benjamin Edmonstone, Chief Secretary to Government, Fort William, Calcutta
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- 12v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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