Sir Lewis Pelly's journey from Persia to Afghanistan, 1860
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The series contains letters, reports, despatches, memorandum and journals relating to Lewis Pelly's special duty to travel overland from Tehran to Kurrachee [Karachi] visiting Meshed [Mashhad], Herat and Candahar [Kandahar] and in the course of the journey to gather intelligence and information ...
Journal of Lewis Pelly's official journey overland from Persia to India through Afghanistan including Mashhad, Herat and Kabul.
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Journal of the journey which the British Government requested that Lewis Pelly take overland through Persia and Afghanistan in returning to India in order to ascertain the situation throughout the country, to visit the rulers of key places such as Herat and Cabul [Kabul] with a view to the re-es...
Final fair copy of a journal of Lewis Pelly's official journey overland from Persia to India through Afghanistan including Mashhad, Herat and Kabul.
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Fair copy of the journal taken from both the handwritten journal kept by Lewis Pelly on his journey (F126/30) and the draft fair copy of the journal which contains corrections and annotations (F126/32) Journal of the journey which the British Government requested that Lewis Pelly take overland ...
Draft fair copy of a journal of Lewis Pelly's official journey overland from Persia to India through Afghanistan including Mashhad, Herat and Kabul.
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First draft of a fair copy of Lewis Pelly's journal of his journey through Afghanistan. The draft contains crossings out, spelling corrections and other alterations to the main text as well as comments in the left hand margin ranging from notes regarding the individuals who travelled with him, p...
Drafts and copies of letters from Lewis Pelly to the Viceroy, Lord Canning, and the British Minister at Tehran, Charles Alison, about his journey through Persia and Afghanistan
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Drafts and copies of the reports, despatches and letters that Lewis Pelly submitted to His Excellency Earl Canning, Viceroy of India and Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran during his special duty in Afghanistan. These drafts include Pelly's daily despatches from his stay at Herat, whic...
Letter No.2 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter reporting how he had attempted to pass through Herat territory without much attention but intelligence had been received at Herat of his approach, and the sons of Sultan Ahmed Khan had been sent to accompany him into Herat. The letter goes on to give Pelly's reasons for having despatache...
Letter No.3 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter reporting on a recent victory over the Jumsheedee [Jamshidi] tribe in which the Herat army was led by the eldest son of Sultan Ahmed Khan, and reporting that the late Chief of that tribe Abdullah Khan had been one of the key instigators of a plot to depose Sultan Ahmed Khan.
Copy of Telegram from the Secretary to Government, Punjab to Hugh Rees James, Commissioner and Superintendent, Peshawar Division
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Telegram stating that the Governor General had approved the orders issued to Major Lewis Pelly and further requested that he may be instructed to send his despatches through the Ameer [Amir]'s people to Peshawar or to bring them via Quetta.
Copy of letter No.34 of 1860 from Jonathan Duncan Inverarity, the Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Camp Nuggur Parhur to The Right Honourable Lord Elphinstone, Governor and President in Council, Bombay
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Copy made in April 1860 of a letter from the Commissioner in Sind to the Governor at Bombay, originally dated 16 February 1860, commencing on folio 2v, which enclosed translations of letters sent by Colonel Frederick Goldsmid, Political Superintendent of the North West Frontier, relating to inte...
Notes by Lewis Pelly on Mr M Khamkoff's mission in Afghanistan
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Draft notes written by Lewis Pelly on the effects of the visit of Russian Officers to Herat, including the financial donations made, and the mission of M Khamkoff, a Russian whose route Pelly followed for a time. Mr Khamkoff's mission is discussed in detail in the notes, along with Pelly's own ...
