Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussorah [Basra] [64r] (2/2)
The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 12 Nov 1764. 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 poor state of the woollen trade and expresses the hope that things will improve once perpets arrive from Bombay and the merchants arrive from Corasoon [Khorāsān]. A trankey that was sent to Bushire by the Company broker Often a local commercial agent in the Gulf who regularly performed duties of intelligence gathering and political representation. at Muscat is also mentioned, as well as the fact that Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muhanna] has not replied to the author's letter yet.
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Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussorah [Basra] [64r] (2/2), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 63v-64, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100024196150.0x00008d> [accessed 29 March 2024]
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- Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussorah [Basra]
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- 64r
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