Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding his inability to leave Bickaneer [Bīkāner] and meet with Pelly in Jodhpore [Jodhpur] owing to the state of disquiet at that time, and regarding the difficulties being caused by the Maharaja (Dungar Singh) being on unfriendly terms with various groups and individuals which have n...
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter confirming that he would not be able to leave Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to meet with Pelly owing to the ongoing difficulties with the Maharaja, and regarding various complaints which have been taken up and the slow pace with which they were being resolved.
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter enclosing a note from Pundit Munphool in which he asks to be considered for the Dewanship of Kotah, and giving his (Burton's) recommendation of him as a being capable of the role and referncing an excerpt from his annual report to Colonel John Cheape Brooke 31 May 1873 in which he had rep...
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter, with copy, reporting on his meeting with the Maharaja (Dungar Singh), Lal Singh's objections to going to Jeypore [Jaipur] owing to his concerns over matters of etiquette and proposing instead to meet Colonel Pelly at Ajmere [Ajmer]. The letter goes on to discuss the advantages of convers...
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Choy Hial, who had held offices for many years before resigning through ill health in June 1871 and who had most recently been a member of the Bickaneer [Bīkāner] Council and was considered to be one of the few individuals giving good advice to the Maharaja.
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter thanking Pelly for offering to meet him in Ajmere [Ajmer] and proposing that they revert to their original intention of meeting in Jeypore [Jaipur] on 1 January 1874.
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter requesting that Pelly forward a letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison on to him as the previous copy did not reach the Foreign Office and his name did not appear on the gradation list.
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Camp Seehur to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter thanking Pelly for sending the letter from Aitchison; and discussing some disputed land near Bursoo [Budsu] which is nearly 100 miles from the road to Bickaneer [Bīkāner], including the difficulties in reaching it, the poor quality of the roads, the lack of available water and the need fo...
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Leslie Seymour Saunders
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Letter, dated 30 June 1873 regarding the Mayo College File, which had taken some time to put together for Saunders and discussing what he had and hadn't included in it. The file and précis which are referred to in the letter are no longer enclosed. A postscript to the letter, dated 1 July 1873,...
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter enclosing an English translation of an address and a copy of Pelly's reply, as well as informing him that they have been sent for insertion into the Rajputana Gazette and that the original address would be published in Urdu. The enclosures referred to are no longer with the letter.
