Letter from Rawson Hart Boddam, Andrew Ramsay, and Robert Sparks, at Bombay Castle, Publick [Public] Department, to Charles Watkins, East India Company Resident at Bushire
IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 48v-49
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The record is made up of 1 folio. It was created in 6 Jul 1787. 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 gives notice that instructions will soon come from Bussora regarding plant specimens needed for a new botanical garden at Bengal.
An extract of a Company command, dated 7 April 1768, is included. It is an order for all Company settlements to give details of all exports from their respective regions in order to improve trade along the Malabar Coast. Included is a table showing purchases of 'Drugs' and pepper by the English companies, English individuals, the French, the Dutch, and the Danes.
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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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- 6 Jul 1787 (CE, Gregorian)
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Letter from Rawson Hart Boddam, Andrew Ramsay, and Robert Sparks, at Bombay Castle, Publick [Public] Department, to Charles Watkins, East India Company Resident at Bushire, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 48v-49, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024189854.0x000081> [accessed 24 April 2024]
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- IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 48v-49
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- Letter from Rawson Hart Boddam, Andrew Ramsay, and Robert Sparks, at Bombay Castle, Publick [Public] Department, to Charles Watkins, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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- 49r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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