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Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Basra [78v] (2/4)
The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 10 Oct 1765. 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 covers various subjects:
- the author's response to recent complaints about the tone of his letters made by Wrench;
- the arrival from Carrack [Kharg] Island of the Dutch writer The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping. , John Jacob Christant, seeking compensation for what was stolen from him by the English during the withdrawal from Gombroon [Bandar Abbas] in 1763;
- the situation between Carem Khaun [Karim Khan], Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muhanna], and the Chaub [Banu Ka‘b];
- the lessening of the Khan's opinion of the English;
- reports that the Dutch are attacking Mīr Muhanna with Shaik Sadoon's [Sheikh Sa‘dūn] assistance.
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Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Basra [78v] (2/4), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 78-79v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024196150.0x0000aa> [accessed 31 March 2025]
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- IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 78-79v
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- Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Basra
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- 78v:79v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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