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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 10-11
Title:: Letter from Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook, Government House, Calcutta to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding telegrams received from Pelly regarding a confession to the poisoning of Colonel Robert Phayre, and informing Pelly that there will need to be corroborative evidence as a confession alone would not be sufficient. The letter also discusses Dadabhoy's resignation, which Lord Nor...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 Dec 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 12-17
Title:: Letter from Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook, Viceroy of India, Government House, Calcutta to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding the grave condition of affairs in Baroda, and giving his views on how the situation appears to the Government of India and what they expect to occur. These expectations include the likely need for legal opinion once the evidence relating to the attempted poisoning of Colonel Ro...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 29 Dec 1874
Extent:: 6 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 18-21
Title:: Letter from Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook, Viceroy of India, Government House, Calcutta to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter informing Pelly that he has ordered the force at Baroda to be strengthened; that the depositions had been placed in the hands of the legal advisers who had given their opinion on them; and a proclamation which was being telegraphed to him. The letter also states that as the Gaekwar has n...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Jan 1875
Extent:: 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 22-23
Title:: Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Brief note enclosing a copy of one of Pelly's letters and informing him that it, along with its enclosures, had been sent to the Government of Bombay.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 Jan 1875
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 24-25
Title:: Letter No.4 from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter informing Pelly that the Gaekwar (Malharrao) should have every opportunity to prepare his defence and that he should be informed of this in writing. The letter goes on to discuss the likelihood that the court will meet on 18 February as Sir Richard Couch cannot be in Baroda before then,...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 Jan 1875
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 26-27
Title:: Letter No.5 from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter, marked private, approving the proceedings that Pelly had reported in his letter of 21 January and asking that he only undertake enquiries into the accusations and scandals that would bear upon the commission and its work.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 23 Jan 1875
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 28-29
Title:: Letter No.6 from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter, marked confidential, enclosing notes of a private conversation with Gregor Charles Paul, Adjutant-General at Calcutta, whom Frank Henry Souter's evidence from his support was submitted for opinion and showing the areas that Mr Paul thinks are the weak points in the case, and those who ar...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Feb 1875
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 30-31
Title:: Letter No.7 from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter giving Pelly an indication of the Viceroy's opinion on what would be proper for Henry Cleveland's guidance and suggesting that one and a half lakhs would be a liberal allowance, as when added to the money already advanced it would come to two lakhs in total.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Feb 1875
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 32-33
Title:: Letter No.8 from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter, marked private, regarding articles in the Times of India and Bombay Gazette which had described the Gaekwar's palaces and which were very libellous and requesting that Pelly prohibit anyone from visiting the palaces unless on official duty, as well as advising him not to trust anyone fro...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Feb 1875
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/82, ff 34-41
Title:: Letter Lord Northbrook (Thomas George Baring, Second Baron Northbrook), Barrackpore to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter, marked private, requesting that Pelly explain to Andrew Richard Scoble and Jonathan Duncan Inverarity that although the case is to be treated as an ordinary criminal trial, there are political circumstances connected to it which cannot be introduced into a trial for the purpose of provin...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 20 Feb 1875
Extent:: 8 folios

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