Letter No.100 of 1865 from Pelly to Dr William Henry Colvill, the Residency Surgeon in Bushire
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Copy of a letter dated 23 December 1865 concerning Dr Colvill's breach of privacy in relation to the publicity of their trip to Riyadh earlier that year. Pelly asks Colvill to submit to government an explanation of his conduct. A second letter dated 27 December 1865 is also enclosed in which Co...
Letter No.110 of 1865 from Pelly to Dr William Henry Colvill, Residency Surgeon at Bushire
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Copy of a letter in which Pelly accuses Dr Colvill of evading his questioning and requests that Colvill meet him at 2 p.m. to review the letters purported to have been written by him and to look at the passage from the Edinburgh Review. Enclosed with the letter are notes on the meeting between ...
Correspondence between Pelly and Dr William Henry Colvill
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Copies of correspondence between Pelly and Dr Colvill written on blue paper and in the handwriting of a third [unidentified] individual. Some of these letters are duplicates of other copies elsewhere in the file. The correspondence includes: Copy of a letter from Pelly to Colvill, 13 February ...
Minute by Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, on the power of the Wahabees in Central Arabia
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The minute by Sir Bartle Frere summarises the history of the Wahabee [Wahabi] power in Central Arabia, checks to their power about forty-five years ago and more recent incidents which are a cause for concern. Frere refers to visits made by William Palgrave and Lewis Pelly to the Wahabee Capital...
Papers relating to Pelly's expedition to Riyadh, including a draft of a talk given by him to the Royal Geographical Society
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The papers relate primarily to the Royal Geographical Society who published Pelly's account of his journey to Riyadh and invited him to submit a talk to be read on his behalf at a Society event. There is also correspondence relating to the botanical specimens collected during the expedition an...
Article printed in a Bombay newspaper, and originally taken from the Bengal Hurkaru, 30 December 1865 regarding the dangers of Wahabeeism [Wahhabism] and concerns over the British Government's attitude towards the potential threat.
Handwritten note by Pelly regarding the contents of the file
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The note states '1864-1866 Miscellaneous papers concerning Riadh trip and other papers concerning Riadh trip placed in my book containing my reports of travel'.
Letter from Edward Weller to Pelly regarding a map for submission with an article in the Royal Geographical Society journal
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Mr Weller requests that Pelly mark the places mentioned in his article on the map, encloses additional prints of the map which Pelly had requested and informs Pelly of the intention to also include a map of Arabia to show places mentioned by Pelly that are outside of the route the main map covers.
Letter from H W Bates to Pelly regarding Dr Colvill's journal
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Letter informing Pelly that Dr Colvill's journal would not be published by the Royal Geographical Society and reassuring Pelly that Dr. Colvill had not sent the journal to the society himself, and most likely had not had any intention of making it public.
Correspondence to Pelly from the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew
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Letter from Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanical Gadens at Kew regarding samples of Arabian plants which Pelly had collected on his travels to Riadh [Riyadh], some of which were of considerable interest
