Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter, dated 29 August 1873, asking Pelly to enquire of the eleven native doctors mentioned in correspondence with Colonel John Cheape Brooke in 1872 whether they are of the impression they will receive a pension. Enclosed with the letter is a report, dated 29 September 1873, written by Pelly...
Letter from Colonel Lewis Pelly to Captain Philip Durham Henderson, Under Secretary, Foreign Department, Government of India
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Letter enclosing a letter from Major William Howell Beynon on the Kishengurh [Kishangarh] Peshcush (an offering or tribute). Letter from William Howell Beynon, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Officiating Agent Governor General, 10 October 1873, regarding the amount of His Highness (of Kishangarh...
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Government of India, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter, dated 13 October 1873, informing Pelly that Colonel Alexander Ross Elliot Hutchinson must remain at his post, that there was no objection to the Maharana's excursion but that the Viceroy would not visit him as he had been offered the opportunity of seeing the Viceroy at Agra, which he ha...
Letter from Philip Durham Henderson, Government of India, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Officiating Agent to the Governor General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter informing Pelly that the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] Chief's will be permitted to leave Agra as soon as the Durbar is over and that he should hint to them that the earlier they depart the better.
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Government of India, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding a proposal by General John Dobrée Woollcombe for a siege train at Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād], and giving the Viceroy's opinion that the likelihood of siege guns being required in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] was scarce and that should such a situation occur they could be acquired from el...
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Agra to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding a proposal by General John Dobrée Woollcombe for a siege train at Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād], and giving the Viceroy's opinion that the likelihood of siege guns being required in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] was scarce and that should such a situation occur they could be acquired from el...
Letter from Philip Durham Henderson, Government of India, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Officiating Agent to the Governor General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter, dated 5 November 1873, informing Pelly that one of his letters was received unsigned and requesting that he remedy this. The letter also contains a pencil note by Pelly on the verso of folio 121, dated 9 November, requesting a second draft of the letter for him to sign.
Copy of a letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Agra to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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Letter explaining his intentions in submitting General John Dobrée Woollcombe's letter requesting siege guns for Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] in order to handle a situation at Futtehgurh [Fatehgarh] and that garrison artillery would not be required as well as outlining the possible scenarios where th...
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Government of India, Camb to Lewis Pelly
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Letter explaining when an individual's appointment would be 'Political Agent' and when it would be 'Political Resident' and how these titles can be carried over by the individual.
