Letter from George Edwin Seward, Dorcton House, Madras to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
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Letter regarding Pelly's recent illness; rumours that he may be considering a position on the Council of India; his possible return to India with Lord Lytton and general political musings. The letter also encloses a press cutting (folio 84) from an Indian newspaper (possibly the Bombay Times) w...
Letter from Henry Carstairs Pelly, Abbey Leix, Ireland to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
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The letter details his visit to his brother-in-law (John Robert William Vesey, 4th Viscount de Vesci of Abbey Leix) and the contrast between their life in Ireland and the accounts of poverty and destitution he has heard of among the people in general there. The Letter also enquires as to what P...
Letter from Lord Lytton (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton), Barrakpore to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
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Letter regarding Lewis Pelly's role in representating Lord Lytton and the British Government in negotiations with an envoy of the Khan of Afghanistan, and setting out a clear position and policy with regard to Afghanistan for the purposes of the forthcoming talks. Enclosed with the letter is a...
Letter from L-C P, Government of India to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
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Letter regarding the re-opening of frontier passes and trade, and explaining that the sudden decision to re-open them caught many traders unprepared. A postscript to the letter refers to a brief report the author wrote about Surat the previous year and notes that the information contained withi...
Letter from Lord Lytton (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton), Simla to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
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Letter informing Pelly of his united approach, as Viceroy and Governor-General of India, to the frontier policy and discussing the difficulties being caused by it not being matched with a united approach from the British Government.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Athanaeum Club, Pall Mall, London to the Marquess of Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury)
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Letter to the Marquess of Salisbury thanking him for his role in Pelly receiving the knighthood of the Order of Bath. Enclosed with the letter is a draft copy of the letter to the Marquess of Salisbury acknowledging that Queen Victoria wishes to confer upon him the honour of the Order of Bath.
Letter from Albert W Woods, College of Arms to Colonel Sir Lewis Pelly, KCB, KCSI
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Letter enclosing Pelly's warrant to accompany his having been appointed an ordinary member of the Civil division of the Second Class of Knights Commanders of the Honourable Order of the Bath. (Warrant no longer enclosed).
Letter from William Howell Beynon, Frenches, Redhill, Surrey to Sir Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Beynon's intention of travelling to India via ship to aid his recovering health and giving news from Jeypoor [Jaipur] including of Alfred Comyn Lyall's move to Simla to take up an appointment there.
