Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, 2 Manor Place, North, Edinburgh to Lewis Pelly
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Letter informing Pelly that both Mrs Aitchison and Mrs Cox will be accompanying him to London and asking Pelly to dine with them at the Charing Cross Hotel, as well as asking him to meet them there rather than coming to Kings Cross to meet them.
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Simla to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding his having found things different once he arrived in India, his having unexpectedly found himself directed to Simla and re-established in the Foreign Office, and his meeting with the Viceroy and the explanation behind why he had been offered the appointment in Assam.
Part of a letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, to Lewis Pelly
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Last folio of a letter regarding the movements of the Viceroy around India; a visit to Pelly from Mr Cox (Aitchison's father-in-law); letters to Pelly from his wife; and reports in the Bombay Papers that Pelly is to be married and will be the next Governor of Bombay. The earlier folio(s) of th...
Letters from Sir Owen Tudor Burne to Sir Lewis Pelly
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Personal and demi-official correspondence from Sir Owen Tudor Burne, Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India to Sir Lewis Pelly, who retired from service with the India Office in August 1877. The official correspondence relates primarily to affairs in Cabul [Kabul] and the British Government'...
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, India Office to Lewis Pelly
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Letter, written on thick black edged mourning paper, confirming arrangements for a meeting with Pelly and discussing recent affairs in Cabul [Kabul] which he describes as 'ticklish'.
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Lewis Pelly
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Letter enclosing the 'Afghan Despatch' for Pelly's confidential information (no longer enclosed) and informing him that things have remained in a status quo since Pelly left, expressing his hopes that if things stay the same for a few more months their policy will be vindicated, and reporting th...
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Lewis Pelly
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Brief letter regarding his offence at Lord Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil)'s 'Cabul utterances' particularly in regard to all the hard work that Pelly and Lord Lytton (Robert Bulwer-Lytton) among others had undertaken and the lack of acknowledgement or gratitude from Lord Salisbury in his stat...
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding the Ameer [Amir] of Cabul [Kabul], Shere Ali [Sher Ali Khan], who is refusing to give in or back down and the likelihood that a re-establishment of relations with him would now be impossible. The letter goes on to give Burne's thoughts on a united and strong Afghanistan under ...
