Abstract: A copy of a letter from Henry Willock, HM Chargé d’Affaires in Persia [Iran], to Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay [Mumbai], sent from Tabrīz and dated 4 July 1820.The letter concerns the British Government in India’s desired concession of an island in the Gulf to serve as a base against ‘piracy’, which had earlier been refused by Persian Ministers.The letter was enclosed in Willock’s letter to the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors of the East India Company dated 6 July 1820 (IOR/L/PS/9/69/26).Physical description: 1 item (2 folios)