Vol 26: Letters Inward

Content

The file consists of correspondence addressed to the Resident at Bushire, Captain William Bruce. However, much of the content has been weeded, and is no longer present in the file; this is indicated by gaps in the file's pagination sequence.

The remaining content includes some instructions to the Resident, concerning a stop-off he made at Muscat during his return from Bombay to Bushire early in 1822, along with a dispatch from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d'affaires at the Court of Persia, concerning the deterioration of his situation at Tehran as a result of arrears in the Persian Subsidy. It also includes a letter from the Bombay Government removing William Bruce from his position as Resident at Bushire at the end of 1822, for negotiating an unauthorised treaty at Shiraz with the Persian authorities there.

Extent and format

1 volume, 5 items (38 folios)

It is grouped into

Letter No 56 of 1822 from Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire

14 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/26, ff 2-8

Letter No 249 of 1822 from James B Simson, Deputy Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire

2 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/26, f 9

Letter No 4 from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d'Affaires at the Court of Persia to Francis Rawdon Hastings, Marquis of Hastings, Governor General of India [Governor General of Bengal and Fort William]

54 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/26, ff 10-36

Letter from Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay to Abdoolla bin Achmed [‘Abdullāh bin Aḥmad] of the race of Khuleefee [Āl Khalīfah], Shaikh of Bushire

4 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/26, ff 37-38

Letter from James Farish, Secretary to the Government, Political Department, Bombay to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire

5 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/1/26, ff 39-40

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The main foliation sequence commences at the cover and terminates at the last folio; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

Pagination: An incomplete pagination sequence is also present between ff 2-40v; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the top outermost corners of each page.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Letter book

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/1/26

History of this record

Date(s)

8 Jan 1822-1 Dec 1822 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Abolition of slavery

Places

SherazTehrān

People & organisations

HM Ambassador to IranViceroy and Governor-General of India in CouncilCrown Prince of Persia, Qajar dynastyHM Chargé d'Affaires to PersiaSultan of Muscat and Oman, Āl Bū Sa'īd DynastyGovernment of Bombay, Political and Services DepartmentSecretary of State for Foreign AffairsShah of Persia, Qajar dynastyMirza Abdul Mahab

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