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1. Mss Eur F126/6

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Mss Eur F126/6
Title:
'Personal and Private D.O. [Demi-Official] Correspondence'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from friends and colleagues of Lewis Pelly discussing personal and professional topics including: Alfred Hyman Louis discussing his opinions on the British Government, the India Office and the running of the Empire and J C A Scote detailing Louis's departure for Melbourne, Austra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1858-1 Nov 1865
Extent:

1 file, 10 items (31 folios)

2. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 4-5

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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 4-5
Title:
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Jacobabad to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding eighty rupees belonging to Pelly which he had instructed should be left in the pay and which Baring is enquiring about as there are no outstanding monies to be paid. The letter goes on to give news of the appointment which William Merewether has offered him, the recent fearful ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1859
Extent:
2 folios

3. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 6-11

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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 6-11
Title:
Letter from George Mathieson Ogilvie, Bombay to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the estrangement of Pelly and Ogilvie's friendship and Ogilvie's desire for reconciliation. The letter goes on to discuss Major Macleod Innes who is writing a work on the history of the mutiny and who wishes information on particular points which Ogilvie believes Pelly can assi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1860
Extent:
6 folios

4. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 18-22

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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 18-22
Title:
Letter from Alfred Hyman Louis, London to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding his friendship with Pelly, and giving his personal opinions and thoughts on government and the ruling of the British empire. Mr Louis' handwriting is very difficult to read.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jul 1860
Extent:
5 folios

5. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 23-24

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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 23-24
Title:
Letter from Sir Henry Rawlinson, London to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Rawlinson's marriage which was due to take place that week but which had been postponed owing to matters in Persia. The letter goes on to discuss Pelly's appointment in Persia and proposes that he apply to return to India via Herat and Cabul [Kabul] in order to demonstrate to L...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Aug 1860
Extent:
2 folios

6. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 25-26

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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 25-26
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Calcutta, to The Earl Canning
Scope & Content:
Letter to Charles John Canning, 2nd Viscount and Earl Canning, regarding the news that Mr Barnes is contemplating retirement from the Foreign Office and requesting that his name be put forward for consideration should a vacancy arise there.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1861
Extent:
2 folios

7. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 29-30

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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 29-30
Title:
Letter from Robert Lambert Playfair, Zanzibar to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding his recent tour of Mozambique and the Comores [Comoros] and giving news of Mr Finley who has been made to resign his consulate by Earl Russell. The letter goes on to discuss Pelly's position in Bushire, Playfair's intention to remain in Zanzibar for a few years and his hopes o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1863
Extent:
2 folios

8. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 2-3

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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 2-3
Title:
Letter from Alfred Hyman Louis, 11 Ormonde Terrace, Regents Park, London to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the state of affairs within the new India Office, and the difficulties that Lord Stanley, the new Prime Minister will be facing, in particular with the Military Department. The letter goes on to discuss the state of the Empire, which Louis feels is getting too big for both its ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1858
Extent:
2 folios

9. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 12-17

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Mss Eur F126/6, ff 12-17
Title:
Letter from John Wortley de la More, Cedar Grove, Richmond, Surrey to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding arrangements for an extension of the Electric Telegraph from Baghdad to Bassorah [Basra] and then via the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee [Karachi] and discussing this route as a more commercially and politically viable one than through the Red Sea where the telegraph has ruptured sev...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1860
Extent:
6 folios

10. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 27-28

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/6, ff 27-28
Title:
Letter from L C A Scote [Scott?], 11 Northumberland Terrace, Primrose Hill, London to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Alfred Hyman Louis and his wife Elizabeth and their recent emigration to Melbourne, Australia which has been caused by recent events in England and Mr Louis not being able to work in England. The letter discusses the difficulties for Mrs Louis in leaving her circle of friends an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1861
Extent:
2 folios

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