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1. Mss Eur F126/29

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Mss Eur F126/29
Title:
East Persia, Herat and Afghanistan mission order
Scope & Content:
Order issued by the British Minister at Tehran, Charles Alison, instructing Pelly to return to India overland from Persia through Afghanistan. The letter instructs Pelly on the British Government's preferred route for him through Meshed [Mashhad], Herat and Cabul [Kabul], weather permitting, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
10 Sep 1860
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

2. Mss Eur F126/29-35

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/29-35
Title:
Sir Lewis Pelly's journey from Persia to Afghanistan, 1860
Scope & Content:
The series contains letters, reports, despatches, memorandum and journals relating to Lewis Pelly's special duty to travel overland from Tehran to Kurrachee [Karachi] visiting Meshed [Mashhad], Herat and Candahar [Kandahar] and in the course of the journey to gather intelligence and information ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1860-1864
Extent:

7 files (786 folios)

3. Mss Eur F126/34

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/34
Title:
Copies and Translations of letters in Persian sent to Lewis Pelly.
Scope & Content:
Letter containing a bundle of letters in Persian for Lewis Pelly's information. The letters are primarily between Persian and Afghani officials and include a forwarding letter from William Lockyer Merewether who initially received them. Many of the letters in Persian are written in an illegible ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1860
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

4. Mss Eur F126/44, f 91

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Mss Eur F126/44, f 91
Title:
Letter from Melik ool Toojjar [Malik al-Tujjar] to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter from Haj Muhammad 'Ali, Malik al-Tujjar at Bushire, dated 28 Suffur [Safar] 1280 / 12 July 1866 regarding a telegraph he had received from Addul Nubee, a Bushire merchant resiting in Busreh [Basra] regarding two of his slaves who had run away with some of his property and were on board th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
12 Jul 1866
Extent:
1 folio

5. Mss Eur F126/44, f 93

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/44, f 93
Title:
Letter from the Laskerachee to Reay Moonshee
Scope & Content:
Letter, in Persian and translated into English, regarding Ghoolam Ali [Ghulam 'Ali], an inhabitant of Bushire who had agreed to serve on a steamer for one month in order to travel from Bombay to Bushire to visit his parents, however the Captain of the steamer was refusing to permit him to leave ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
12 Jul 1866
Extent:
1 folio

6. Mss Eur F126/46

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/46
Title:
Letters to Lewis Pelly from local rulers and shaikhs, with translations in English.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in Arabic, mostly with translations in English, from Thuwaini bin Said, Sultan of Muscat; Zayid I bin Khalifah Al-Nahyan, Chief of Abu Dhabi; Abdullah bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud, Ruler of Najd; Majid bin Said Al-Busair, Sultan of Zanzibar; the British native agent at Sharjah, Ha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1863-1870
Extent:

1 file, 9 items (17 folios)

7. Mss Eur F126/46, f 6

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Mss Eur F126/46, f 6
Title:
Letter from Farukh Khan, Tehran to Lewis Pelly, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter in Persian, with English translation, from Farukh Khan (a Persian Government Official) thanking Pelly for his letter of friendly greetings following his arrival in Bushire and for the information provided by Pelly about his career and appointment as Political Resident in the Persian Gulf....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
23 Mar 1863
Extent:
1 folio

8. Mss Eur F126/48-54

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/48-54
Title:
Reports, Treaties and Papers relating to the Persian Gulf Written or Compiled by Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
The series comprises reports, treaties and other papers relating to Lewis Pelly's time in the Persian Gulf and covers proposed extensions to the telegraph network through Persia and Muscat; trade in and around the Persian Gulf; and compiled knowledge of the local tribes in the area. The papers ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1863-1872
Extent:

7 files (129 folios)

9. Mss Eur F126/49

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Mss Eur F126/49
Title:
Memo on the Dashtee tribe
Scope & Content:
The memo contains information in Persian, with English translation, regarding the Dashtee [Dashti] tribe and the villages that are subordinate to it. For the town of Dashtee (folio 8) the memo gives details of the tribute paid to the Governor of Bushire; for each subordinate village the followi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
21 Feb 1863-12 May 1863
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

10. Mss Eur F126/65

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/65
Title:
Miscellaneous Papers relating to Lewis Pelly's Service in the Persian Gulf and India
Scope & Content:
The file contains a private journal kept by Lewis Pelly from January to February 1865; notes taken by him during his journey to Riyadh January to March 1865; sketches, correspondence, financial accounts and other papers. Included within the file are: Extract showing a record of posting from the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English, Persian, and Urdu
Date Range:
c 1865-c 1873
Extent:

1 file, 2 items (66 folios)