Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Ajmere [Ajmer] to Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff
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Letter regarding Grant-Duff's travels from Ahmedabad which Pelly informs him will be impassable by road and recommending instead the train from Bombay to Jeypore [Jaipur] from where a carriage and horses could be laid on to Ajmere [Ajmer] and Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] and further should he wish to...
Letter from Lewis Pelly to Colonel John Allen Wright
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Note enclosing a telegram from Calcutta regarding the illness of the Maharana [Shambhu Singh] of Oodeypore [Udaipur] and instructing him to remain at the palace as much as possible and describing the protocol for the last hours of a Chief's life: Copy of a telegram from the Foreign Secretary to ...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Sambhur [Sāmbhar] to Colonel John Allen Wright
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Letter regarding the continuation of the Maharana's [Maharana Shambhu Singh] illness; a request for Dr. [William James] Moore to assist which could not be fulfilled owing to Dr Moore being in England and approval of the request for a medical officer from Neemuch [Nimach] to attend. The letter a...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp near Sambhur [Sāmbhar] Lake to Sir Henry Montgomery
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Letter in response to Sir Montgomery's requesting Pelly's assistance in securing a position in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] for Captain Arthur Conolly. Pelly's response is that there are others currently acting as Commandants of Seconds within the province who Government would not pass over for promo...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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Letter enclosing a letter from Captain Powlett giving the opinion of the Residency Surgeon on the health og the late Maharana and more thoughts on his successor, but reserving opinion until he has received Captain Powlett's detailed report.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Colonel William Carnell
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Letter regarding dealing with the Meywar [Mewār] Thakoors (local nobles); Carnell's response regarding Asuf Khan and a strange case of a father asking his son to aid him in being buried alive. The letter also discusses the opening of the Railway line which will take place with festivities the n...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Colonel John Allen Wright
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Letter approving all that Colonel Wright has done and informing him that his Demi-Official has been sent to the Foreign Secretary (Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby). The letter also informs the Colonel that the General at Mhow Division will reply to his requisition and enclosing new dr...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Alfred Comyns Lyall, Home Secretary to the Government of India, Calcutta
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Letter arranging to meet Lyall in Calcutta in order to discuss arrangements and matters relating to Rajpootana [Rājasthān] and also enquiring if he wishes to take over any of the furniture, crockery or stores currently at the Residency.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Lord Northbrook [Thomas George Baring]
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Letter thanking his Lordship for approving Pelly's request to take leave owing to his deteriorating eyesight which he needs to take precautions for, and discussing the causes of and possible solutions to it. The letter continues by discussing Pelly's satisfaction with arrangements within the R...
