Letter from Horace George Walpole, India Office to Sir Lewis Pelly, CSI, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter informing Pelly that the Secretary of State for India (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury) will be happy to present him at the Royal Levée on 1 June 1874.
Letter from J S Townsend, The Manchester Guardian, 9 Northumberland Street, Strand, London to Sir Lewis Pelly, CSI, Agent to the Governor-General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter thanking Pelly for a list of his public services he had sent in, and amending the time at which they are to meet the following day.
Letter from George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood, Department of the Reporter on the Products of India, India Office, London to Sir Lewis Pelly, KCSI, Agent for Governor General Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter, marked confidential, informing Pelly that his (Birdwood)'s authority for Tehran had come from an India Office official and that the 'gossiping old Indian' had been spreading the Bombay report.
Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, Windham Club, St James's Square, London to Adolphus Warburton Moore (Assistant Secretary to the Political and Secret Department, India Office)
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Letter informing Moore that following the note from the Viceroy (Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook) of 23 September 1875 he intends to remain in England until November 1876 unless otherwise instructed.
Letter from William J Maitland, India Office to Sir Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Pelly's name having been added to a list of candidates (possibly for a vacancy on the Council of India) and informing him that Lord Cranbrook (Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook) will refer to Lord Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury) when ma...
Letter from E/G? H Leeds, The Priory, North Bank, Regent's Park, London to Sir Lewis Pelly
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Brief letter thanking Pelly for having undertaken his promise and informing him that he would be writing to Lord Lytton (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton) that day.
Letter from George Pomeroy Colley, London to Sir Lewis Pelly
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Brief letter thanking Pelly for his action in regard to the Viceroy (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton)'s telegram and informing him that he had recently been in Bournemouth with Owen Tudor Burne. The letter concludes by informing Pelly that he has heard that the Council of India wish to h...
Draft telegram from Lewis Pelly, India Office to Lord Lytton (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton, Viceroy of India), Simla
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Draft telegram, written on the back of a Secretary's departmental order slip, informing Lord Lytton that he is ready to return to work at a day's notice. The telegram contains a number of crossings through and corrections, and also includes the financial calculations for the cost of sending th...
