Letter from Lewis Pelly, on board H M S Berenice to Commander Hillyer
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Letter regarding the need to await a telegram from Government (Bombay) regarding the proposal to send a steam transport to Muscat to remove British subjects from there. The letter also discusses Commander Hillyer's remarks to Government on Pellys decision not to have accompanied Highflyer on he...
Letter from Faysul ibn Torky Al Saood [Faisal ibn Turki Al Sa'ud] to Colonel Pelly, Resident Persian Gulf
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Letter in Arabic, with an English translation on the verso, of a letter from Faysul ibn Torky Al Saood [Faisal ibn Turki Al Sa-ud] sent 2 Ramathan [Ramadhan] 1281 (29 or 30 January 1865) and received by Lewis Pelly 7 February 1865 informing Pelly that he may come on to Riyadh from 'the Sirkar' a...
Letter No.58 of 1865 from Pelly to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Copy of a letter regarding Pelly's expedition to Riyadh for which all correspondence and communications were for the secret department only, and his apprehensions about Dr Colvill accompanying him on the expedition. The letter goes on to give details of a journal and other correspondence which ...
Letter No.35 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda to Andrew Scoble, Advocate General of Bombay
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Letter enclosing a letter Pelly had sent to the Government of India regarding the prisoners and witnesses in custody or under police surveillance on account of their alleged involvement with the attempted poisoning of Colonel Robert Phayre. The letter goes on to discuss Pelly having refrained f...
Letter No.58 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner administering the Baroda State to Charles Umpherston Aitchison, the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla
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Letter forwarding a list of all persons now under arrest or detention or released by the orders of or with the cognizance of the present Baroda Administration. The list consists of thirty-six individuals, of which twenty are under detention or surveillance and lists the locations of these indi...
Letter No.122/879 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner administering the Baroda state, Baroda to John Alexander Matthew Macdonald, Secretary to the Government of Bombay, Military Department, Bombay
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Letter regarding Pelly's decision to take his furlough and that he would be handing over charge of the Baroda state to Sir Richard Meade. The letter continues by thanking the Government of Bombay for their support in military matters; reporting that he had received every possible assistance from...
Letters to Lewis Pelly from colleagues in the Gulf and others.
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Correspondence relating to Lewis Pelly's work as Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, including a few letters written after Pelly's departure from the Gulf providing him with news and updates on situations as he was, until late 1873, expected to return to his position at Bushire. The corres...
Letter from William H Allen & Co, 13 Waterloo Place, London to Lewis Pelly
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Letter updating Pelly on the printing of his book and the expectation that it will be ready by the end of May. A specimen sheet of their work thus far is also enclosed.