Letter No. 2228 of 1863 from Henry Lacon Anderson, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay to Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, Acting Political Resident Persian Gulf, Bushire
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Letter thanking Pelly for his report on the tribes, trade and resources of the shoreline of the Gulf, which the Governor considers to be a valuable contribution.
Letter No. 1062 from the Officiating Under Secretary to the Government of India to Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Extract of a letter on behalf of the Viceroy and Governor General in Council approving of the measures adopted by Lieutenant-Colonel Pelly in restoring the maritime peace in the Persian Gulf.
Letter No. 1066A from the Officiating Under Secretary to the Government of India to Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Extract of a letter on behalf of the Viceroy and Governor General in Council conveying their thanks for Lieutenant-Colonel Pelly's 'interesting report'' on trade in the Gulf.
Extract of despatch No. 5 of 1864 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India
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Extract from the despatch regarding the report by Lieutenant-Colonel Pelly on the tribes, trades and resources of the Persian Gulf and concurring with the Government of Bombay's sense of its value.
Letter No. 3468 of 1862 from W Wedderburn, Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay to Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, Acting Political Resident, Bushire
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Letter enclosing an extract from a desptach No. 32, 24 September 1862 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. The enclosed extract is from paragraph four of the despatch and relates to reports that Colonel Pelly wrote on the Comoro Islands [Comoros Islands] which were consi...
Letter No. 3243 of 1870 from William Wedderburn, Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Lewis Pelly, The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
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Letter in response to a report written by Pelly on trade between India and the Gulf of Persia. The letter focuses primarily on responding to questions and issues raised in the report; however the final paragraph gives the Government of Bombay's thanks to Pelly and highlights his work in produci...
Memorandum of a voyage on board a Dingee (Sindee boat) undertaken in the year 1842, from Kurrachee [Karachi] to Bombay
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Memorandum written by Lewis Pelly in about 1854 recollecting the events of his journey from Kurrachee [Karachi] to Bombay in 1942. The voyage described was undertaken with Captain Jones of the 12th Regiment and their intention was to meet, in Bombay, the first post monsoon steam vessel from Sind...
Letter No.1579 of 1869 from Colonel Robert Phayre, C.B., Political Superintendent on the Frontier of Upper Sind, Jacobabad to Sir William Lockyer Merewether, the Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karachi]
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Letter submitting Phayre's views on the aim and scope of proposed alterations in arrangements for the Upper Sind part of the frontier. The letter refers to a sketch map (which is no longer enclosed) that detailed the area of the frontier in question and showed the boundaries of the various tri...
Letter No.2 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter reporting how he had attempted to pass through Herat territory without much attention but intelligence had been received at Herat of his approach, and the sons of Sultan Ahmed Khan had been sent to accompany him into Herat. The letter goes on to give Pelly's reasons for having despatache...
Letter No.3 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter reporting on a recent victory over the Jumsheedee [Jamshidi] tribe in which the Herat army was led by the eldest son of Sultan Ahmed Khan, and reporting that the late Chief of that tribe Abdullah Khan had been one of the key instigators of a plot to depose Sultan Ahmed Khan.