Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to the Colonel John Allen Wright
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Letter advising Colonel Wright that the Maharana should attend to Dr Burr's recommendations and approving his request to withdraw Major Gunning's outposts. The letter also discusses when Wright should come to visit Pelly.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to the Maharajah
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Letter regarding Pelly's good fortune in avoiding the rain during his travels from Bhurtpore [Bharatpur] to Aboo [Ābu] and Rajpootana [Rājasthān] being blessed with rain so the crops will be abundent. The letter also asks after the health of the Maharajah and enquires after his family.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to the Honourable Michael John Maxwell Shaw-Stewart
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Letter enclosing a letter for Shaw-Stewart's private attention which he is to destroy after reading and discussing the patronage of the Viecroy. The private letter is not enclosed.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Mrs Janette St. John
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Letter regarding Pelly having submitted her husband's name for the Governorship of Mayo College and describing the station and its climate. The letter also states that Pelly has submitted St. John's name for a Political Agent vacancy in Central Asia should he not be chosen as Governor.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Aboo [Ābu] to Messrs Jaffer Suleman and Company
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Letter describing the contents and value of some cases; expressing his dislike of customs houses; and requesting that the Company keep the cases until further notice owing to the rain.
Letter regarding the state of the Lawrence Asylum buildings which Pelly fears are endangering the children and offering to step in and help to find the girls there a safer place to attend school and requesting that the school committee attend a meeting at the school the following day to consider...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Aboo [Ābu] to Major Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford
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Letter regarding Bradford's request for Captain Burton to go to Kote Pootlee [Kotputli] on boundary duty, and the inconvenience this would cause to Pelly, and Pelly's suggestion that owing to the emergent work he needs Burton to do that Burton could meet Bradford in Sambhur [Sāmbhar] in October ...
