Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay
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Letter regarding the amicable settlement of affairs at Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] by the Shah; Pelly's intention to travel to Shiraz (to meet with the Governor-General there) and the Persian Government having finally promised to allow the british [and others] to purchase property in Persia. T...
Letter regarding the possibility of moving the residency to Arab soil in order to escape the machinations of Persia and explaning procedures for the copying of letters and circulation of relevant information to the british agents in the Gulf and regarding instructions for all telegrams to be sen...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Kouri Yuman en route to Bushire, to Messrs Remington
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Brief note regarding their crediting the interest in his ten shares in the Colabo Land Reclamation Company and his having instructed Mr Edwards to send the remittence of his July pay to them which he hopes they have received.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Messrs Remington
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Brief note regarding 2,000 rupees from the Government treasury to be credited to Pelly's account; the realisation of his seventy-two shares in the New Bank of Bombay and his ten shares in the Elphinstone Land Company. Below the note is a brief list of letters and notes to be written, the recipi...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Kurrachie [Karachi] en route to Bushire, to 'My dear Sir'
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Letter, possibly to William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay, regarding an appointment in Bagdad which Pelly is unable to accept owing to the current state of affairs with Persia, Arabia, East Africa and Afghanistan. The letter goes on to discuss the new Political Arrangement...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Hubert Isaak Walton
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Letter regarding the cable house which he will write to Tehran about and asking that he send public political news regularly from Kurrachee [Karachi] as he has not heard anything of the latest troubles in Europe and the only news received have been the market rates for cotton as there is no Reut...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Alfred Cotton Way
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Letter regarding Way either taking the Hugh Rose to the Muscat coast or sending her there and then returning to Bassidore and thanking him for his careful and satisfactory management of affairs there. The letter goes on to state that altougth Bassidore should not be left entirely vacant it coul...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Gerald Fitzgerald
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Letter regarding the opening up of trade in the Gulf and the increase in claims and complaints and extra work for the Resident that has been a result of this. The letter also discusses the import and export duties being imposed by the Persian Government at Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh] and Bushire ...
