Letter to Major David Wilson, Resident of the Persian Gulf, from John Pollard Willoughby, Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay
IOR/R/15/1/55, ff 3-16
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The record is made up of 14 folios. It was created in 21 Sep 1830. 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 introduces three attached appendices, which are themselves copies of three letters regarding the need for British naval presence in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . The first appendix is a summary of a consultation with William Bruce, the former Resident of Bushire and it draws heavily on information from appendices two and three. It is recommended that the naval force required in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. can be reduced, with a firm assertion attributed to Bruce, that pirates are unlikely to attack ships carrying the British flag. Two tables displaying trade between India (specifically the cities of Bengal, Madras and Bombay) and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from 1821 to 1828 are included.
The second appendix is a copy of a letter to William Bruce, late Resident at Bushire, from R. A. Bannerman, initially sent on 17 August 1829. The third appendix is a copy of Bruce’s reply to Bannerman, originally sent on 24 August 1829.
Notations are made in the margin on several of the folios; they are made in pencil and appear to have been added by a researcher.
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- 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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- 21 Sep 1830 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/R/15/1/55, ff 3-16
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- Letter to Major David Wilson, Resident of the Persian Gulf, from John Pollard Willoughby, Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay
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- 3r:16v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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