Telegram from the Private Secretary to the Governor General, Camp Umurpatra to Captain Lewis Pelly, Calcutta
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Telegram informing Pelly that the Governor General (Charles John Canning, Earl Canning) expected to be in Calcutta from 18 February and requesting that Pelly remain there until he arrived.
Letter from William Lockyer Merewether, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre
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Demi-official letter in which Merewether expresses his vexation at the course that Colonel Phayre has chosen to adopt and stating that he had patiently dealt with the Colonel's objections and mistaken views in the hope that he would eventually realise the errors he was making but that his latest...
Letter from Colonel Robert Phayre, The Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind, Jacobabad to Captain Charles Henry Harrison, Political Agent, Khelat [Kalāt]
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Letter regarding entries in Captain Harrison's political diary regarding correspondence which the Khan of Khelat [Kalāt] had commenced with Ibrahim Khan of Chagkansoor [Chakhānsūr], Seistan [Sīstān] and regarding a statement within the correspondence that his people were originally subjects of K...
Journal recounting a journey undertaken by Lewis Pelly in Zanzibar in 1862
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The journal entry has been written on folios 23 and 24 only and recounts Lewis Pelly's visit to the Sohailee [Swahili] Sultan and describes the donkeys and men that awaited them on their boats arrival in the creek; the members of the French consul they encountered en route; and the countryside t...