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Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire [206v] (2/2)
The record is made up of 1 folio. It was created in 8 Jun 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 informs that Robert Garden is sailing to India with Captain Grady and there is no need to send the Tartar to Basra, but it should instead be dispatched to Bombay as soon as possible.
A postscript reports that Coja Sarkees [Sarkis], the kalantar (representative) of the Armenians in Persia and an agent of the Caun [Karim Khan] had arrived from an envoy to the Dutch on Carrack [Kharg Island] and is sailing to Bushire. It is requested that the vessel be immediately returned to Basra loaded with barley.
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Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire [206v] (2/2), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/1, f 206-206v, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024196152.0x000034> [accessed 26 March 2025]
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- Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench and Robert Garden, Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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- 206v
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