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Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay [10r] (2/2)
The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 5 Feb 1820. 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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In this letter William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, acknowledges the receipt of Government commands, dated 18 September 1819 and received on 10 December 1819, which expressed the Government's approval of Bruce's actions, both in sending a person to act as a broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. at Katife [Al-Qatif] and in providing assistance to Captain George Forster Sadleir. Bruce goes on to suggest maintaining the presence of a broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. at Katife, on the grounds that it acts as a check on the predatory habits of the Arab chieftains of the Gulf.
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Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay [10r] (2/2), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/22, ff 9v-10, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023449598.0x000019> [accessed 19 April 2024]
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- Letter from William Bruce, Resident, Bushire, to Francis Warden, Chief Secretary to the Government, Bombay
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- 9v:10r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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