Letter from Henry Moore and Dymoke Lyster, East India Company Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to William Bowyear and James Morley, East India Company Resident and factor at Bushire
IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 245v-248
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The record is made up of 4 folios. It was created in 11 Aug 1767. 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 progress of negotiations with Carim Caun [Karim Khan]. It outlines the plan to withdraw from Bushire and destroy the town if the Khan doesn't agree to the Company's terms. There are the instructions to send the possessions of a French Muslim murdered in Bushire to Basra to be returned to the French there.
There is an enclosed copy of a translation of a letter from Henry Moore to Karim Khan, undated. In it he demands the restitution of the Company property stolen by the Chaub [Banu Ka‘b], threatening to withdraw from Bushire and destroy all Persian shipping and coastal towns.
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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 245v-248
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- 11 Aug 1767 (CE, Gregorian)
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Letter from Henry Moore and Dymoke Lyster, East India Company Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to William Bowyear and James Morley, East India Company Resident and factor at Bushire, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 245v-248, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024189854.0x0001b3> [accessed 23 April 2024]
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- IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 245v-248
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- Letter from Henry Moore and Dymoke Lyster, East India Company Agent and Council at Bussora [Basra], to William Bowyear and James Morley, East India Company Resident and factor at Bushire
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- 246r:248r
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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