'Book No: 15 (Inward) for the years 1813-1814'

Title:

'Book No: 15 (Inward) for the years 1813-1814'

Contributor:

Government of Bombay, Commissary-General (correspondent)
Government of Bombay, Military Department (correspondent)
Government of Bombay, Commercial Department (correspondent)
Government of Bombay, Military Board (correspondent)
Government of Bombay, Military Paymaster General (correspondent)
Residency Surgeon, Persian Gulf (correspondent)
HM Ambassador to Iran (correspondent)
Resident, Bussora (correspondent)
Bombay Marine Board, Secretary (correspondent)
Bombay Marine Board, Assistant Secretary (correspondent)
Government of Bombay, Assistant Deputy Paymaster-General (correspondent)
Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (correspondent)
Government of Bombay, Secretary to the Financial, Public, Revenue and Judicial Departments (correspondent)
Government of Bombay, Political Department (correspondent)
Stephen Watson Hull Henshaw (correspondent)

Date:

1813/1814

Description:

The volume contains mainly letters addressed to Lieutenant William Bruce, Resident at Bushire at the time. Bruce was Acting Resident until 1812, but in this volume he is still often referred to as Acting Resident. A few letters are written to James Orton, Assistant Surgeon at Bushire, who took temporary charge of the Residency while Bruce was away from Bushire. The letters are mainly from the Secretaries of the Government of Bombay. Subjects relating directly to the Residency include: accounts; military and marine expenses. Broader themes within the letters include the diplomatic relations with Persia and the Wahabee [Wahhabis], the procurement of sulphur for its use in gunpowder, the silk and horse trades, and the threat of Āl Qāsimī pirates to British trade in the Persian Gulf.1 volume, 174 items (149 folios)Two different hands have written the volume, one from folios 1-40, and the second from folio 41 until the end. In the first instance, earlier letters are grouped under headings either upon order of receipt or of transcription; heading dates start from 14 August 1813, but the actual letters are from 2 April 1813.From folio 41 the correspondence is in chronological order, and letters are up to 28 December 1814.Foliation: there is an original pagination, written in ink in the top right of each recto and the top left of each verso. It starts on the first letter with 1 and continues until page 213.The volume has been foliated in pencil, circled, in the top right corner of each folio. The numbering begins with the first letter with 1; then 2-94; 95-95a; and then runs through to 138, which is the last number given on the first blank page at the end of the volume. There are seven blank pages at the beginning and three at the end of the volume.Condition: the item has suffered from insect damage and the paper is very fragile in some parts. Some folios are glued and cannot be read.

Language:

English

Type:

Letter book

Type (Narrower):

Letters

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Wool trade

Geographic region:

Assaloo
Camaran
Bandar Abbas
Khen

Extent:

1 volume, 174 items (149 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000159.0x0003e3_ar
81055/vdc_100000000159.0x0003e3_en
IOR/R/15/1/15

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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