Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 209v-210
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 4 Dec 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 discusses the Khaun's [Karim Khan] offer of the settlement of Bunderick [Bandar Rig] to the Company and asks why no confirmation of the Company's grants have yet been obtained from the Khan. It informs that the matter of Mr Christant, a 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. who is claiming for losses incurred by the English during the withdrawal from Gombroon [Bandar Abbas], now lies with the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. at Bombay. There is a further reprimand for the lack of information in Jervis' letters.
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- 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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- IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 209v-210
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- 4 Dec 1765 (CE, Gregorian)
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Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 209v-210, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024189854.0x00017d> [accessed 25 June 2026]
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- IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 209v-210
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- Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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- 210r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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