Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, Muscat, to Charles Alison
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Letter containing further reports on the 'squabbles' between the Moonshee's [Munshi's] and the Persian Foreign Office and of Pelly's ongoing difficulties with the Persian authorities and the Persian Foreign Agent in Tehran.
Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, Bassidore, to Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay
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Letter regarding a Dr I Williams who wishes to be appointed as the Assistant Surgeon at Muscat and giving his support to the application. The letter also reiterates the request for a vessel in the Gulf that can use sails in order to save on coal. The letter concludes by discussing a letter fro...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Alfred Cotton Way
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List thanking Way for his clear report regarding the Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] Chief (Zayid bin Khalifah) and discussing affairs in Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] including the Persian Government's appointment of the Naib ul Agalla as Governor, their desire for the British to protect the Gulf coast t...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Charles Alison
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Letter describing the maritime truce in the Gulf which Pelly arbitrates as Resident and explaining that the arab tribes of the littoral are bound by it and not Persia or Muscat. The letter details the Sultan of Muscat's desire to continue leasing Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas], that the Sultan wi...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Alfred Cotton Way
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Letter regarding the recent hot weather; the Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] affair and the murder of a Puttawalla (Persian messenger or courier). The letter also informs Way of the Bombay Government's request that Pelly visit the Persian Governor-General at Shiraz; their approval of Pelly's reco...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Alfred Cotton Way
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Letter regarding an attack by the Gwuttur [Qatar] tribes on Bahrein and the actions of the Bahrein shaik (Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah) whom Pelly wishes to make an example of. The letter also discusses the movements of various vessels around the Gulf, the Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abb...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Sir Bartle Frere
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Letter regarding Pelly's work in settling the Muscat affair on the Oman coast and the question of the Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] districts which has finally been settled. The letter also discusses the question of Aujam [Henjam], which Britain wishes to use as a telegraph station; Pelly's prob...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp en route to Bushire, to Sir Bartle Frere
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Letter regarding the sealing and exchanging of the Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] lease and Pelly's forthcoming departure for Bahrein where he has been ordered to punish the Bahrein shaik (Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah). The letter also refers to Pelly's correspondence with the Viceroy...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Gerald Fitzgerald
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Letter regarding Captain George Andrew Atkinson and his relationships at Muscat as well as Pelly's desire for their to be a permanent appointment in Muscat in particular with regards to the character of the individual posted there. The letter also discusses the withholding of vital corresponden...
