Copy of a Letter from the Resident at Bushire, William Bruce, in Tehran, to HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley
IOR/L/PS/9/68/181
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The record is made up of 1 item (5 folios). It was created in 20 Mar 1814. 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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Copy of a letter from the Resident at Bushire [Būshehr], William Bruce, in Tehran, to HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia [Iran], Sir Gore Ouseley, of 20 March 1814. The letter concerns the affair of the imprisonment of the Vizier of the Governor of Fars, Mahomed Nebee Khan [Muḥammad Nabī Khan] for indebtedness by the Governor of Fars, Hussein Ali Mirza (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/136). The letter details Bruces’s intervention in the affair, at Ouseley’s request, in which he acted as an adjudicator in the dispute and paid off some of Khan’s debts in advance, in order ensure Khan's release and maintain British prestige in Persia.
The letter was enclosed in the letter of HM Chargé d'Affaires to Persia, Henry Willock, to HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Castlereagh, of 4 December 1818 (see IOR/L/PS/9/68/179), which was received on 29 April 1819.
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- 20 Mar 1814 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Copy of a Letter from the Resident at Bushire, William Bruce, in Tehran, to HM Ambassador Extraordinary to Persia, Sir Gore Ouseley
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- 1r:5v
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