Abstract: A copy of a letter from Brigadier-General John Malcolm, newly appointed Envoy of the Supreme Government of India to Persia [Iran], to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, sent from Bombay [Mumbai] and dated 17 December 1799. The letter reports Malcolm’s plans to travel to Muskat [Muscat] and meet with the Imaum [Imam] [Sultān bin Ahmad Al Bū Sa’id], who is suspected of pro-French sympathies, and thence to Bushire [Būshehr], and proposes installing an East India Company representative in Muskat.Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)