This is an interim version of our Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue while we continue to recover from a cyber-attack.
This catalogue is currently browse-only. The collection item request form is not available at the moment but will be reopened from Monday 15 December. Find out more about our current collection access suspension.
Search
Search Constraints
You searched for:Project / CollectionQatar Foundation Partnership ProgrammeLevel[41] Item
Letter No.28 of 1875 from Frank Henry Souter, On Special Duty, Foreign Department, Baroda to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Pelly's letter No.650 of 1875 enquiring whether certain prisoners could be released on bail, and reporting on his meeting with the Cantonment Magistrate to discuss the cases in question, and that they hoped to be able to complete their enquiries into the cases and submit a repor...
Letter No.35 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda to Andrew Scoble, Advocate General of Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a letter Pelly had sent to the Government of India regarding the prisoners and witnesses in custody or under police surveillance on account of their alleged involvement with the attempted poisoning of Colonel Robert Phayre. The letter goes on to discuss Pelly having refrained f...
Letter No.36 of 1875 from Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner, Baroda to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Calcutta
Scope & Content:
Brief letter forwarding a copy of a letter which he had addressed to Andrew Richard Scoble.
Letter from Andrew Richard Scoble, Baroda to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Brief letter regarding the dangers of using witnesses who have been 'exposed to temptation' by friends of the Gaekwar (His Highness Malharrao), and that as such witnesses are not required to prove the case asking Pelly's permission to only call those witnesses necessary as proof in support of th...
Letter from Sir Lewis Pelly, Baroda to Andrew Richard Scoble
Scope & Content:
Brief letter in response to Scoble's letter of 10 March (folio 35) concurring with Scoble's view of the case and request to only call certain witnesses as proof.
Extract Telegram from Foreign Secretary, Calcutta to Sir Lewis Pelly, Baroda
Scope & Content:
Extract of the Telegram instructing Pelly to arrest the Gaekwar and inform him of the charges being made against him. The telegram goes on to give instructions on the conditions and arrangements that should be made for his confinement and to ensure he can properly prepare his case.
Extract from Confidential Letter No.114a P of 13 January from the Foreign Secretary to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Extract of paragraph nine of the letter instructing that care should be taken to prevent witnesses being tampered with and to ensure the case is fully and fairly laid before the court.
Letter from James Bellett Richey to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the list of all individuals in custody or under police surveillance and explaining the delays and difficulties in compiling the information requested by Pelly. The letter also discusses an old legacy theft case from the Gaekwar (Malharrao) which related to the suspicion that t...
Letter regarding Messrs Payne and Bhaishunker having interviewed Hurreeba Dada and that they would be requesting permission to interview Sahin and Eshwuntras too.
Letter No.38 of 1875 from Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent Governor General and Special Commissioner Acting the Baroda State to Lieutenant-Colonel L C Barton, Political Agent, Rewa Kanta [Rewa Kāntha]
Scope & Content:
Letter informing Barton that the individuals he is enquiring about are in the charge of Frank Henry Souter and requesting he arrange the matter directly with Souter.
