Letter No.2583 from Charles Gonne, Political Department, Bombay Castle to The Political Resident, Persian Gulf
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Letter enclosing letter No.1066A from Charles E R Girdlestone, Officiating Under Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla to Charles Gonne, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, 31 July 1869 conveying the thanks of the Government of India to Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly...
Letter No.2583 from Charles Gonne, Political Department, Bombay Castle to The Political Resident, Persian Gulf
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Letter enclosing letter No.1062 from Charles E R Girdlestone, Officiating Under Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla to Charles Gonne, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, 31 July 1869 conveying the approval of the Government of India to Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pell...
Letter No.498P from Charles E R Girdlestone, Officiating Junior Under Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Fort William to Charles Gonne, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
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Letter enclosing a copy of a memorandum relating to the claims of the Turkish Government to the sovereignty of the island of Bahrein [Bahrain]. The memorandum details the history of the island of Bahrein from the sixteenth century onwards, including British recognition of the independence of Ba...
Folder entitled 'Guttur [Qatar] Sovereignty' enclosing letter No. 5147 of 1871 from William Wedderburn, Acting Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay to Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department regarding the question of the sovereignty...
Letter from Henry Le Poer Wynne to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Bushire
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Letter confidentially enclosing papers which the Bombay Government had been due to send Pelly on 15 January 1871 and regarding their recent grevious loss. Enclosed with the letter are: Letter from Sir John William Kaye, Secretary, Political and Secret Department, India Office to Charles Umphers...
Letter No.4066 from Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to The Political Resident, Persian Gulf
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Letter enclosing letter No.1449P from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Simla, to Charles Gonne, dated 1 July 1872, in which the Government of India approve of Colonel Lewis Pelly's proceedings at Sohar in 'commanding redress for the violation of the rights of B...
Supplement to the Gazette of India containing copies of correspondence relating to operations at Bahrain
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The printed supplement, dated 22 January 1870, contains copies of despatches between Lewis Pelly and the Government of Bombay as well as copies of Pelly's correspondence with the Chiefs of Bahrein [Bahrain], Guttur [Qatar] and correspondence between the Government of India and the Government of ...
Copies of personal letters from Pelly to various persons including colleagues in the Gulf.
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Copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Gulf, including during periods of absence from Bushire for Lewis Pelly. Most of the copies have been written on Pelly's behalf by his assistant James Charles Edwards. The correspondence is primarily with individuals who reported to Pelly inclu...
Memorandum by Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Acting Political Resident Persian Gulf, Chughudduk [Choghadak]
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Memorandum regarding an irregularity with regards to carriage arrangements in the Bushire Residency and reminding Residency employees that the Civil Service rules state that when officicial establishments travel by land all the members of that establishment who travelled are entitled to battas (t...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Burkeh [Barka, Oman] to [James Charles Edwards]
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Letter regarding papers that Colonel Disbrowe has removed from the residency, Pelly's movements around the Gulf in the forthcoming days in preparation of the potential bombing of some Wahabee [Wahhabi] ports and requesting a meeting be arranged with Aboo Esau [Abu Esau] to hear first hand about ...
