Government House Letters Received Rajputana [Rājasthān]
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Correspondence to Lewis Pelly, primarily from the secretaries at Government House including Charles Umpherston Aitchison and Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department, and Colonel William Earle and Captain Evelyn Baring, Secretaries to His Excellency Lord Northbrook, Viceroy of India. ...
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly, care of the Political Agent, Muscat
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Letter thanking Pelly for his letters of 17 January 1873 and 13 March 1873 regarding the negotiations in Zanzibar and expressing his hopes that if Pelly does go to Rajpootana [Rājasthān] they will be able to meet again sooner than expected.
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Gorton Castle, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Pelly's arrival in India, and a previous letter he had sent to Muscat which he assumes Pelly did not receive. The letter goes on to discuss his expectation that Pelly will come to Simla with Sir Bartle Frere and stay with Aitchison as well as visiting Government House.
Abstract of a khureeta [kharīṭa] from Khowas Parbuhseye, concubine of the late Maharajah Sirdar Sing [Sardar Singh] of Bikaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel John Cheape Brooke
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Letter discussing the inheritance her son had received from his late father Maharajah Sardar Singh and a decision to remove some of the lands and power from him.
Letter from [Bruce?] Deare, Mahableshwur [Mahābaleshwar] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Pelly's safe arrival in Simla, asking if he has made the acquaintance of William Hanson Chippendale who commands his regiment and asking him to present his Salaam's to Sir Henry Norman, should Pelly see him.
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Brief letter informing Pelly that Lord Northbrook (Viceroy of India) had approved James Charles Edwards' appointment at Bushire and asking if he should gazetted as Second Assistant.
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison to Lewis Pelly, with response
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Letter from Aitchison regarding the agreed facts in a legal case in Ajmere [Ajmer] and asking for Pelly's thoughts on which course they should pursue (the letter refers to an enclosed letter about the case which is no longer there). Pelly's response to Aitchison's query is given below the origi...
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Military Secretary to the Viceroy, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding some papers, that were being sent separately, which the Viceroy wished Pelly to read before they met the following day. The papers relate to the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Laing Mackeson in allowing his assistant surgeon to live with him in a state of drunkenness a...
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Military Secretary to the Viceroy, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding the Viceroy's appointment of Percy William Smith to be the officiating adjutant of the Mhairwarra [Merwāra] battalion and checking whether Pelly still had any of the papers relating to Meywar [Mewār]
