Letter from Robert Taylor, Assistant in Charge at Bussora [Basra] to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
IOR/R/15/1/19, ff 96v-97
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 7 May 1819. 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 requesting the advancement of a sum of money to Captain Lichfield for the purchase of horses for the Bombay 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. . As per the enclosed letter from E Baker, Commissary General, Bombay to Captain Lichfield, dated 15 February 1819. The enclosed letter informs the Captain that orders will be obtained from the Bombay Government for the purchase of fifty horses; a list of the sums of money to be drawn from various residencies is included.
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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/15/1/19, ff 96v-97
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- 7 May 1819 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/R/15/1/19, ff 96v-97
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- Letter from Robert Taylor, Assistant in Charge at Bussora [Basra] to Captain William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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- 96v:97r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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