Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 212-213
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 15 Feb 1766. 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 discusses the issue of some missing tin and requests that the Bushire accounts and warehouse be checked. Also discussed is the need to confirm the Company's grants with Karim Khan and the case of Lewis Baretto D'Souza, a Company servant accused of spying for the Ottoman authorities in Basra. There are further questions over Jervis' lack of updates from Bushire.
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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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- IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 212-213
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- 15 Feb 1766 (CE, Gregorian)
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Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 212-213, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024189854.0x000184> [accessed 4 June 2026]
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- IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 212-213
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- Letter from Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra], to Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushire
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- 212v:213r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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