Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding a lack of a response to Pelly's letter No.1094 of 28 July 1873 regarding the Mayo College and requesting further information for the Viceroy on the progress of boarding houses, and when they hope to require staff and teachers. The letter also approves Pelly's privilege leave an...
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Government House, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter asking for Pelly's thoughts on the services of Colonel Samuel Hennell, and whether they were sufficient to give his son any special claim upon the Viceroy for a nomination to the Staff Corps. A postscript to the letter notes Earle's regret at the news that Pelly is having to take leave o...
Letter from Philip Durham Henderson, Government of India to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Brief letter enclosing an article from the Delhi Gazette on the condition of the ancient Jain temple at Ajmere [Ajmer] and requesting Pelly's thoughts on whether actions needs to be taken from the temple's preservation and the likely expenditure required.
Letter from Philip Durham Henderson, Foreign Department, Government of India to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter requesting copies of letters 148P of 1874 and 145P of 1874 which Pelly had promised to forward. The verso of folio 189 contains a request to Henry Byam Abbott to determine how the omission of the forwarding of these letters occurred.
Letter from James Cavan Berkeley, Camp Kota to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter, dated 25 February 1874, submitting his opinion, in accordance with the views of Government, that 500 muskets should be supplied to the Tonk Durbar and promising the ensure the corresponding number of old arms are destroyed. The verso of folio 191 contains a pencil note from Henry Byam A...
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Camp Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel John Cheape Brooke, Officiating Agent to the Governor General for the State of Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter regarding a demi-official report which had been forwarded by Colonel Brooke. The report contained translation of an extract from the Pudh Akhbar, dated 3 January 1873, and described a Fakeer, Ameer Ally Sow [Amir Ali Sow], who was living in Bickaneer and giving his family background, how ...
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel John Cheape Brooke
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Letter, dated 18 June 1873, informing Colonel Brooke that the Fakeer Ameer Ally Sow [Amir Ali Sow] had died. The reverse of folio five contains a note from Lewis Pelly to Henry Byam Abbott, dated 21 July 1873, asking about letters received from Government concerning the Fakeer. Folios 6-7 ar...
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter detailing the complaints of the Fharhoors? against the Chief of Bickaneer (Dungar Singh), including: difficulties for local Chief's in handling complaints relation to the practices of their predecessors the current Maharaja and difficulties with him problems with the collecting and levyi...
