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51. Mss Eur F126/47

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47
Title:
Personal and official letters to Lewis Pelly from colleagues and friends in India.
Scope & Content:
Letters to Lewis Pelly, relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf, from colleagues and friends in India and Britain, including Patrick Ryan, Abraham Nickson Hojel and Robert Brown. Other correspondents of note include Hubert Izaak Walton (Director of the Indo-European Telegraph Company), Sir Bar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1863-5 Feb 1869
Extent:

1 file, 29 items (70 folios)

52. Mss Eur F126/63

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/63
Title:
Minute by Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, on the power of the Wahabees in Central Arabia
Scope & Content:
The minute by Sir Bartle Frere summarises the history of the Wahabee [Wahabi] power in Central Arabia, checks to their power about forty-five years ago and more recent incidents which are a cause for concern. Frere refers to visits made by William Palgrave and Lewis Pelly to the Wahabee Capital...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Oct 1865
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

53. Mss Eur F126/68

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/68
Title:
Reviews of A Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1862-63 by William Gifford Palgrave, Published 1865
Scope & Content:
Three published reviews of Palgrave's Arabia, one from a journal and two from newspapers: Pages 182-215 from the Quarterly Review which contained a review of Palgrave's Arabia (ff. 2v-19). The review is undated but is believed to be c.1865. Press cutting from the Friend of India of their review ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865
Extent:

1 file (21 folios)

54. Mss Eur F126/28

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/28
Title:
The Nineteenth Century, No 182, Apr 1892
Scope & Content:
The file contains a copy of the journal The Nineteenth Century. A pencil note on the cover of the journal, in the hand of Lady Pelly, indicates that Lewis Pelly was being read an article from this journal on Easter Sunday five days before he died. The article he and his wife were reading has be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Apr 1892
Extent:

1 volume (120 folios)

55. Mss Eur F126/99

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/99
Title:
Map of Maritime Arabia with the opposite coasts of Africa and Persia
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Lithographed in the Chief Engineer's Office by E. Huskeljee and E. Kumroodeen, Bombay. Distinctive Features: Relief shown by hachures. Below the title note ‘Reduced in the Quarter Master Generals Office from an Original Map by Colonel T Dickinson, Chief Engineer. Signed Neil Camp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1856
Extent:
1 map

56. Mss Eur F126/60

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/60
Title:
Notes on the statements made in William Gifford Palgrave's book Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia
Scope & Content:
The statements were originally intended to form Appendix 12 of Colonel Pelly's Riyadh report No.57 dated 15 May 1866 and were produced following a request from the British Government for Pelly to go through William Gifford Palgrave's book and verify the truth, or otherwise, of accusations, asser...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866
Extent:

1 file (22 folios)

57. Mss Eur F126/74

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/74
Title:
Letter and memorandum by George Henry Maxwell Batten, Commissioner of Inland Customs,concerning the abolition of the customs line between Rajputana [Rājasthān] and the Central Indian States.
Scope & Content:
Letter from George Henry Maxwell Batten, Commissioner of Inland Customs, regarding Lewis Pelly's desire to abolish the customs line between Rajputana [Rājasthān] and the British Territory. The letter encloses a confidential memo which Batten wrote at Lord Northbrook's request on the feasibilit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Sep 1873-09 Jan 1874
Extent:

1 file (8 folios)

58. Mss Eur F126/17

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/17
Title:
Journals kept by Lewis Pelly recording journeys and events in India and Zanzibar
Scope & Content:
File containing journals kept by Lewis Pelly during his early career in India. The journals include a recollection, written in 1854, of a post monsoon journey from Kurrachee [Karachi] to Bombay in 1842; journeys taken in India in 1855 to mark his thirtieth birthday; an excursion to visit a tomb ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1862
Extent:

1 file, 5 items (27 folios)

59. Mss Eur F126/35

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/35
Title:
Memorandum by Lewis Pelly of his meeting with Mahomed Omar Khan, Governor of Bukwa [Bakwāh].
Scope & Content:
'Memo: relative to the proceedings of Mahomed Omar Khan Barucksye [Barakzai], Governor of Bukwa Bakwāh], in my regard'. The memorandum details Pelly's arrival in Keertah [Kirtah], in the plain of Bukwa; his immediate thoughts on the village and the abrupt entrance of the Khan. The memorandum g...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1860
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

60. 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)