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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/44, ff 146-151
Title:: Letter from James Charles Edwards, Bushire to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding Pelly travelling to Muskat [Muscat] aboard Comorin and Edwards arranging for his letters to travel with Oriental and either meet with him or be left at Muskat. The letter informs Pelly of the Governor's return to Bushire having twice attempted to depart from Shiraz and reporti...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 Mar 1870
Extent:: 6 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/44, ff 152-153
Title:: Letter from James Charles Edwards, Bushire to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding news from the papers of an outbreak of plague in Zanzibar and that at Dr. Hojel's recommendation Edwards had written to the Foreign Agent about the need to take precautions with regards to boats arriving from there. The letter also discusses furniture, books and records which ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Mar 1870
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/44, ff 154-155
Title:: Letter from James Charles Edwards, Bushire to Colonel Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding his awaiting Pelly's arrival, and the assumption that the strong shemaul [wind] has detained him. The letter goes on to report on Mohurrum [Muharram] which had recently been celebrated in Bushire and that although the artillery walking the streets with drawn swords and bleedin...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Apr 1870
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/44, ff 156-159
Title:: Letter from James Charles Edwards, Bushire to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding a memo relating to Pelly's accounts and the sale of his stores, which has not been as succesful as he would have liked owing to the perishable stores having to be destroyed and the ability to purchase cheap wine and liquor from England impacting on local sellers. The letter go...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Oct 1874
Extent:: 4 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/44, ff 160-161
Title:: Letter from James Charles Edwards, Bushire to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding Pelly having decided to take a period of rest in Calcutta; the sale of Pelly's garden and a further plot of ground in Bushire to Mrs McKertich; a full statement of the sale of Pelly's property in Bushire; the ongoing work to translate the scenes of Pelly's play; news of Mr Lucas...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 13 Nov 1874
Extent:: 2 folios

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/45
Title:: Letters to Lewis Pelly from colleagues in the Gulf and others.
Scope & Content:: Correspondence relating to Lewis Pelly's work as Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, including a few letters written after Pelly's departure from the Gulf providing him with news and updates on situations as he was, until late 1873, expected to return to his position at Bushire. The corres...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1863-1873
Extent:: 1 file, 53 items (132 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/45, f 4
Title:: Letter from Herbert Disbrowe, Muscat to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:: Letter requesting copies of the treaties with Muscat and Turkey regarding the suppression of the slave trade and asking for any hints or advice that Pelly might have on how to handle these matters. The letter goes on to outline a case of a ship flying the Turkish flag loading with slaves at Mu...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 16 Feb 1863
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/45, f 7
Title:: Letter from Hajee [Haji] Ahmed, Bushire to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding his thirty-four years of service to the British Government and his petition for a pension as he is no longer able to carry out his duties.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 5 Apr 1865
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/45, f 8
Title:: Letter from Hajee [Haji] Ahmed, Bushire to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:: Letter regarding recent murders in Muscat and the methods that the 'Arabs' guilty of committing them have for obtaining protection from prosecution.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 15 Apr 1865
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur F126/45, f 56
Title:: Letter from The Post Master, Kurrachee [Karachi], to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:: Letter No. 1113 of 1868 enquiring where authority lies for opening mail packets in transit.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 24 Sep 1868
Extent:: 1 folio

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