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Letters and Enclosures from the East India Company’s Residents at Bussorah [161r] (17/94)
The record is made up of 1 item (47 folios). It was created in 1 Oct 1784-24 May 1785. 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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Copies of letters and enclosures from the East India Company’s (EIC) Residents at Bussorah [Basra], William Digges Latouche and then later, Samuel Manesty, respectively, to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. of the Company. The correspondence covers the following matters:
- Latouche reporting on settling the Company’s accounts with the Bacha of Bagdat [Pāshā of Baghdad, also spelled as Pashaw]; the Basha’s request of musquets [muskets] and gunpowder; and the Company’s trade status in Bagdat and Bussorah
- Latouche appointing Samuel Manesty to be in charge of the Company’s affairs at Bussorah, and his instructions on how to manage the Company’s affairs, its accounts, and wool trade
- Reports of the activities of the Monteficka Arabs [al-Muntafiq Arab tribal confederation, also spelled as Montificka]
- Correspondence with Soliman Bacha [Büyük Sulaymān Pāshā] of Bagdat regarding the debt the Turks had to pay to the Company
- A translation of imperial commands dated 1784, from the Sublime Porte to Soliman Bacha in relation to the debt (ff 184-187)
- Correspondence with local woollen goods contractors and merchants including Coja Yacoob Aron [Khwaja Hagop Aharon, also spelled as Aroon], Coja Petrus Mellick [Khwaja Petros Malik], and Coja Marcar [Khwaja Markar Aviyat] at Bagdat regarding the settling of their accounts
- The arrival and departure of ships and trade activities in the region.
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- IOR/G/29/25, ff 153-199
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- Letters and Enclosures from the East India Company’s Residents at Bussorah
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- 153r:172v, 177r:183v, 187v:190v, 193r:199v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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