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1. Factory Records, Persia, Vol 21, Pt 2
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- Abstract: This volume contains correspondence sent to and from the East India Company Factory at Bussora [Basra] between 6 December 1775 and 4 October 1779 including the following:The correspondence between the East India Company agents at Bussora, William Digges Latouche and George Abraham and Soliman Aga the Mussaleem of Bussora [Haji Sulayman Agha, Mutasallim of Basra], Carim Caun [Karim Khan Zand, Vakil of Persia], Mirza Jaffir [Mirza Muhammad Ja’far Isfahani, Vizier of Persia] and Shaik Nassir of Bushire [Shaikh Nasir Al Mazkur, Hakim of Bushehr]The fleet sent by the Imaum of Muscat [Imam of Muscat] to assist in the defence of BussoraThe apparent expansion of the siege of Bussora, by Sadoo Can [Sadiq Khan Zand], into a full blockadeThe reports from Latouche and Abraham to the Court of Directors of the East India CompanyThe correspondence between the British Consul at Aleppo John Abbott, British Agent at Bussora residing in Bushire Henry Moore, and British Agent at Constantinople [Istanbul], Anthony Hayes regarding BussoraThe abstracts of the ‘charges general’ from the Bussora General Books listing expendituresA packet dispatched from Cairo to George Abbott in Constantinople and forwarded to the DirectorsThe surrender of the Mussaleem Soliman Aga to the Persian general Sadoo Can and the fall of BussoraThe advices on ‘some interesting points’ sent to the Presidency of Bombay through Aleppo, and in duplicate through Alexandria and Cairo to be forwarded by the Consul George BaldwinThe negotiations between Abraham and the ruler of Persia Carim Caun at Schyraz [Shiraz]The Phirmaund [Firman] of Carim Caun to Latouche, received by Abraham on 23 August 1776The ‘translates [i.e. translations] of sundry Phirmaunds’ from Carim Caun received on 16 June 1777The correspondence of Latouche and Abraham with Sir Robert Ainslie, His Majesty’s ‘Embassador at the Porte’ [HM Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire]The expenses incurred by Captain Francis McKenny in conveying a packet to Bussora for the CompanyThe commercial transactions of Latouche and Abraham with Coja Ezra bin Yacoob [Khwaja ‘Uzayr bin Ya’qub], Coja Ezekiel bin Ibrahim [Hizqiyal bin Ibrahim] and Coja Yacoob Aaron [Ya’qub Harun]The translation of another ‘Phirmaund’ from Carim Caun received at Bussora on 17th June 1778A letter from Colonel James Capper to the Secretary of the East India Company Peter MitchellThe correspondence between Latouche and Abraham and the French emissary Captain Borel du BourgA letter from Luke Pocock and Charles Mordaunt to the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and Members of the Secret Committee, andThe correspondence of Latouche and Abraham with P D Bonnevaux and George Banks.Physical description: 1 volume (183 folios)