Letter No.514 of 1870 from William Lockyer Merewether, Colonel, Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to the Government of Bombay
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Covering note forwarding the enclosed letters for Government's information and stating that the whole of Captain Harrison's report has been forwarded as he considered it to be satisfactory and that nothing contained within it called for the discredit expressed by Colonel Phayre in his letter. Le...
Letter No.1154 of 1870 from Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind, Jacobabad to Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi]
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Letter regarding a Durbar at which matters affecting the Chief of the Boogtee tribe were being discussed and reporting that during the discussion the Khan of Khelat [Kalāt]'s Vakeel referred to him as the Khan of Beloochistan [Baluchistan] and that he therefore had the right to interfere in the ...
Letter No.522 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, the Political Superintendent, Upper Sind Frontier
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Letter informing the Colonel that he should have rebuked the son of the Boogtee Chief for his attempts to address a petition to the Khan, and that the Colonel had overlooked the fact that the intent of the Boogtee was to get the Colonel to permit and confirm his intention to ignore the Khan as h...
Letter No.1167 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
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Letter in response to Colonel Phayre's letter No.1167 of 17 August and stating that as he had already discussed the question of the Khan of Khelat [Kalāt]'s communications with the Sirdars of Seistan [Sīstān] the previous day he would not do so again, except to state that the reply given in Capt...
Letter No.555 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to The Government at Bombay
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Letter enclosing correspondence from Captain Charles Henry Harrison (No.66 of 1870) and Colonel Robert Phayre (No.1219 of 1870) and making the observation that had Colonel Phayre taken the time to be better acquainted with the previous history of Khelat [Kalāt] he would have had no trouble in re...
Letter No.585 of 1870 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
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Letter informing the Colonel that he considered his letter No.1260 of 3 September (received 11 September) to be of an improper tone and style and disrespectful to Merewether as head of the province and that as has failed to take Merewether's recorded opinions as instructions and chosen to disrega...
Letter from William Lockyer Merewether, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre
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Demi-official letter regarding the Colonel's response, dated 1 September 1870, to Merewether's letter of 28 August and again expressing his despair at the Colonel's inability to view his position 'in the proper light'. The letter goes on to remind Colonel Phayre that as his superior all communi...
Letter No.594 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, The Political Superintendent, Upper Sind Frontier
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Letter requesting that his letter to His Highness the Khan of Khelat [Kalāt] should still be forwarded to him, and commending the attitude assumed by Captain Charles Henry Harrison in the circumstances reported by him.
Letter No.539 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
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Letter informing Colonel Phayre that any difficulties between himself and the Khan of Khelat [Kalāt] are entirely of his own making, and stating that the Khan had acted entirely in his own rights to remove the Vakeel from Phayre's court and that this was something that had often occured in the p...
Letter No.557 of 1870 from Colonel William Lockyer Merewether, Commissioner in Sind, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
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Letter in response to Colonel Phayre's letter No.1218 of 30 August 1870 stating that as the title 'Khan of Beloochistan' was not one officially used by the Khan the matter was not resolved and that there did not appear to be any hidden meaning behind it as Colonel Phayre had attempted to surmise...
