Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Mr Fago?
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Letter regarding the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] Railway and his pressing the matter with the Government of India as well as the need for Mr Fago? to keep pressing Government if he wants to get a railway.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Dr William James Moore
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Letter regarding his work with Colonel Beynon at Bhurtpore [Bharatpur], his intention to move camp on 28 August, his work at Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] and Ajmere [Ajmer] and his intention afterwards to move on to Kotah [Kota], Jallawat, Tounk [Tonk], Jeypore [Jaipur], Sambur [Sāmbhar], Seekur [Sīk...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Sir Charles Hall, the Chief Clerk to the Vice Chancellor
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Letter regarding Pelly's purchase of the property Cuckoo Hall Farm, Edmonton and a potential delay in payment for the property being received by the Court of Chancery owing to the death of Narayn Vasedes and Pelly's finances being tied up in the deceased's estate until the will is proven.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Aboo [Ābu] to James Dawson Macdonald
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Letter regarding an enclosure from an officer requesting to be excused from providing men for the Agent to the Governor General's escort this season and Pelly's view that this is an informal and unusual question which is not standard military discipline or procedure. Pelly goes on to request tha...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Aboo [Ābu] to Percy William Powlett
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Letter regarding a pending question on change in the system of customs and whether it relates to salt specifically or is a more general question. The letter also asks if Powlett would be willing to act in Harrowlee [Hāraoti] should Berkeley return home as it could provide a useful sphere for h...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Aboo [Ābu] to Sir Bartle Frere
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Letter regarding Pelly's letter being written on his behalf by a friend owing to his recent eyesight problems; his having asked the Chief's in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] to supply specimens and samples for a museum and the loss of (Britain's) character in many people in India's eyes owing to former ...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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Letter regarding notes on the Ajmere [Ajmer] police and the small cause courts at Ajmere and Pelly's need on several occasions to express his 'emphatic' official displeasure with Leslie Saunders as well as describing his issues and reasons for disliking the man and his work. The letter goes on ...
Letter, to an unknown recipient, requesting confirmation of the safety of Pelly's gold sheathed sword which was presented to him by the Sultan of Muscat and of his Japanese crockery, both of which were in the possession of the late Narayn Vasedes.
