Letter from William Howell Beynon, Jeypour [Jaipur] to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter regarding Lewis Pelly's forthcoming visit to Jeypour and arrangements for greeting the Maharaja. The letter also submits a request from the Maharaja for his sons to be permitted to sit at the Durbar, but not to be included in the number of followers attending. The letter concludes by re...
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter regarding Lieutenant Swift, who Baring thinks would be suitable for a subordinate appointment within the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] State Railway, should such a position be available and informing Pelly that both W Hibertson Gladstone and Captain Steel think highly of him.
Letter from Lord Northbrook, Government House, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter, marked private, from Lord Northbrook (Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook, Viceroy of India) discussing the progress of the season's crops and hopes that Rajpootana [Rajasthan] will not need to use any of the Government's supplies this year. The letter goes on to discuss whether...
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter, marked private, from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary to the Viceroy, enclosing correspondence on a recent matter and suggesting that Pelly have a private word with Colonel Leslie Saunders regarding it. Enclosed with the letter is the following correspondence: Letter from Evelyn Baring...
Letter from Lord Northbrook, Government House, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter, marked private, from Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook and Viceroy of India formally confirming Pelly's appointment as Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān].
Letter from Frederick Greenwood, Pall Mall Gazette, Northumberland Street, Strand, London to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter informing Pelly that he was not aware of there having been any attacks on Lord Lytton (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Barond Lytton) and that there appears in general to be a more favourable feeling entertained towards him.
Letter from Edward Ridley Colborne Bradford, Odeypore [Udaipur] to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter informing Pelly that he had written to Major John Campbell Gunning for information on the strength of the Bheel corps, and that he had also written to the Durbar who he had learned had not received the report regarding the behaviour of the Corps and Major Gunning. The letter goes on to ...
Letter from Frederick Greenwood, Pall Mall Gazette, Northumberland Street, Strand, London to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter regarding an account of a tour of North Africa which he had received from Pelly some years previously, and regarding the 'great game' which the British had been playing for four years and which in Greenwood's view they had lost.
Letter from Dr William James Moore, Aboo [Ābu] to Sir Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter citing Pelly's commendation of Moore's work in Baroda, and giving news from Aboo [Ābu] including the development of Badminton there, as well as giving news of other colleagues throughout India.
Letter from Thomas Henry Sanderson, Foreign Office to Sir Lewis Pelly, CSI, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter informing Pelly that Lord Derby has recommended him to the Secretary of State for India to receive honours. The letter includes a draft in pencil of Pelly's reply expressing his pleasure at the news.
