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Letter from Henry Willock, HM Charge d'affaires at the Court of Persia, Tehran to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire [144v] (4/7)
The record is made up of 4 folios. It was created in 29 Dec 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 transmitting a dispatch to Major General Sir William Grant Kier. The subject of the dispatch is a boat captured by HM Sloop Curlew on 21 May 1819 and legal proceedings to be taken to determine how to dispose of said boat along with associated property; currently the boat is being held at the Bushire Factory An East India Company trading post. . It includes advice from Ollyett Woodhouse, HM Advocate in the Vice Admiralty Court of Bombay, on the prospects for pursuing a legal case against the boat for piratical acts. The dispatch consists of eight enclosures:
1. A copy of a letter from William Newnham, Secretary to the Government, Bombay to William Walpole, Captain of HM Sloop Curlew and Junior Officer in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , dated 17 July 1819.
2. A copy of a letter from William Newnham, Bombay to William Walpole, dated 28 August 1819.
3. A copy of a letter from Hugh George Macklin, Advocate General, Bombay to William Newnham, dated 21 August 1819.
4. A copy of a letter from William Newnham, Bombay to William Walpole, dated 27 September 1819.
5. A copy of a letter from Richard Morgan, Political Department, Bombay to William Newnham, Acting Chief Secretary to the Government, dated 23 September 1819.
6. A copy of a letter from Ollyett Woodhouse, Bombay to Richard Morgan, dated 22 September 1819.
7. A copy of a circular from William Walpole, Bombay to William Newnham, Acting Chief Secretary, dated 20 September 1819.
8. A copy of a circular from William Walpole to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire, dated 28 December 1819.
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Letter from Henry Willock, HM Charge d'affaires at the Court of Persia, Tehran to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire [144v] (4/7), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/19, ff 143-146, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023836175.0x000068> [accessed 29 April 2024]
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- IOR/R/15/1/19, ff 143-146
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- Letter from Henry Willock, HM Charge d'affaires at the Court of Persia, Tehran to William Bruce, Resident at Bushire
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- 143r:146r
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