Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Charles Alison
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Letter regarding the increase in complaints that Pelly has to deal with which are being created by the opening up of trade throughout the Gulf and discussing a complaint from Mr Mackenzie (of Gray, Mackenzie & Co) regarding restrictions being placed at Shiraz on the purchase of goods for shi...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay
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Letter regarding the 'incorrigible mischeviousness' of Mahomed bin Khuleefeh (Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah) of Bahrein and reports that he has been killed by his fellow Chief's for allowing Bedouins to persistently plunder towns and British subjects as well as Pelly's belief that pre...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay
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Letter regarding Britain's failure to to enforce their decisions of the previous yearwhich has led to the need for ships in the Gulf to be sent to East Africa to prevent the slave trade. The letter goes on to discuss the difficulties in undertaking work and supporting expanding trade in the Gul...
Letter regarding Pelly's recent three month cruise in the Gulf to settle the Arab coast troubles and the settling of Muscat affairs. The letter also mentions Pelly's money in the Bank of Bombay his hopes (which he does not expect to be fulfilled) that he will be reimbursed.
Letter informing Narayn that Messrs Remington have paid his Bombay Bank calls and that they have decided not to sell his shares in the Colaba and Elphinstone Land Reclamation Companies. The letter goes on to detail the remittance Joseph Charles Edwards has sent on his behalf relating to his pay...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Narayn Wussadeojee
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Letter, marked private, regarding Pelly's recent bout of fever; his seventy-two shares in the new Bank of Bombay and arrangements to cover the cost of their purchase. The letter also discusses the sale of his shares in the old Bank of Bombay.
Correspondence from James Charles Edwards, Uncovenanted Assistant in the Persian Gulf
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Correspondence from James Charles Edwards written to Lewis Pelly during his absences from Bushire to visit other areas of the Persian Gulf, visiting India and returning to England. The main subject of the correspondence is the day to day running of the Residency and Edwards reports on the appoi...
Letter from James Charles Edwards, Bushire to Lewis Pelly
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Middle folio of a letter regarding an [unnamed] clerk having handed in his resignation which had been accepted by the Bombay Government; Mr Lucas not having returned to Bushire; Edwards drawing Pelly's pay in order to meet the Residency's payments; and regarding whether or not Pelly wishes to se...
Letter from James Charles Edwards, Bushire to Lewis Pelly
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Letter informing Pelly that the superintendent at Mussendom [Musandam] has reported that the Chief of Rasulkhymah [Ras al Khaima] is believed to be preparing an attack on Bokha [Barka], a dependency of Muskat [Muscat].
Letter from Melik ool Toojjar [Malik al-Tujjar] to Lewis Pelly
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Letter from Haj Muhammad 'Ali, Malik al-Tujjar at Bushire, dated 28 Suffur [Safar] 1280 / 12 July 1866 regarding a telegraph he had received from Addul Nubee, a Bushire merchant resiting in Busreh [Basra] regarding two of his slaves who had run away with some of his property and were on board th...
