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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 70v-71
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] to Colonel William Carnell
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding a curious and delicate case of a person being buried alive and advising caution until the Governments view of the case is received.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Sep 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 72v-75
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Ajmere [Ajmer] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding submissions for promotion in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] and the movements of the various agents: Colonel Macdonald at Deolee [Deoli] who is proceeding on privilege leave and has applied for permission to retire and recommending Major Clay to succeed him; Captain Shuttleworth (Canto...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 28 Sep 1874
Extent:: 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 75v-76
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Ajmere [Ajmer] to General Sir Edward Lechmere Russell
Scope & Content:: Letter in response to the General regarding the case of Captain McRae and communicating to headquarters the General's opinions of the officer. The letter also discusses the recent weather in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] and the Loowiasha at Jeypore [Jaipur] in honour of the opening of the state railw...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Sep 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 76-77
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Ajmere [Ajmer] to Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding Grant-Duff's travels from Ahmedabad which Pelly informs him will be impassable by road and recommending instead the train from Bombay to Jeypore [Jaipur] from where a carriage and horses could be laid on to Ajmere [Ajmer] and Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] and further should he wish to...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Sep 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 77v-78
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly to Colonel John Allen Wright
Scope & Content:: Note enclosing a telegram from Calcutta regarding the illness of the Maharana [Shambhu Singh] of Oodeypore [Udaipur] and instructing him to remain at the palace as much as possible and describing the protocol for the last hours of a Chief's life: Copy of a telegram from the Foreign Secretary to ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 30 Sep 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 83v-84
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Sambhur [Sāmbhar] to Colonel John Allen Wright
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding the continuation of the Maharana's [Maharana Shambhu Singh] illness; a request for Dr. [William James] Moore to assist which could not be fulfilled owing to Dr Moore being in England and approval of the request for a medical officer from Neemuch [Nimach] to attend. The letter a...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 05 Oct 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 84v-85
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Sambhur [Sāmbhar] to Messrs Remington and Company
Scope & Content:: Note requesting that the listed bills be paid, receipts taken and the amounts debited from his account with the firm.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 06 Oct 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 86v-87
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp near Sambhur [Sāmbhar] Lake to Sir Henry Montgomery
Scope & Content:: Letter in response to Sir Montgomery's requesting Pelly's assistance in securing a position in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] for Captain Arthur Conolly. Pelly's response is that there are others currently acting as Commandants of Seconds within the province who Government would not pass over for promo...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 07 Oct 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 88v-89
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
Scope & Content:: Letter enclosing a letter from Captain Powlett giving the opinion of the Residency Surgeon on the health og the late Maharana and more thoughts on his successor, but reserving opinion until he has received Captain Powlett's detailed report.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Oct 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/70, ff 89v-90
Title:: Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Colonel William Carnell
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding dealing with the Meywar [Mewār] Thakoors (local nobles); Carnell's response regarding Asuf Khan and a strange case of a father asking his son to aid him in being buried alive. The letter also discusses the opening of the Railway line which will take place with festivities the n...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 11 Oct 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

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