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Container Reference (shelfmark) Mss Eur F126/29-35

1. Mss Eur F126/29

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/29
Title:
East Persia, Herat and Afghanistan mission order
Scope & Content:
Order issued by the British Minister at Tehran, Charles Alison, instructing Pelly to return to India overland from Persia through Afghanistan. The letter instructs Pelly on the British Government's preferred route for him through Meshed [Mashhad], Herat and Cabul [Kabul], weather permitting, an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
10 Sep 1860
Extent:

1 file (6 folios)

2. Mss Eur F126/30

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/30
Title:
Journal of Lewis Pelly's official journey overland from Persia to India through Afghanistan including Mashhad, Herat and Kabul.
Scope & Content:
Journal of the journey which the British Government requested that Lewis Pelly take overland through Persia and Afghanistan in returning to India in order to ascertain the situation throughout the country, to visit the rulers of key places such as Herat and Cabul [Kabul] with a view to the re-es...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Sep-16 Nov 1860
Extent:

1 file (45 folios)

3. Mss Eur F126/31

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/31
Title:
Final fair copy of a journal of Lewis Pelly's official journey overland from Persia to India through Afghanistan including Mashhad, Herat and Kabul.
Scope & Content:
Fair copy of the journal taken from both the handwritten journal kept by Lewis Pelly on his journey (F126/30) and the draft fair copy of the journal which contains corrections and annotations (F126/32) Journal of the journey which the British Government requested that Lewis Pelly take overland ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1860-16 Nov 1860
Extent:

1 file (238 folios)

4. Mss Eur F126/32

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/32
Title:
Draft fair copy of a journal of Lewis Pelly's official journey overland from Persia to India through Afghanistan including Mashhad, Herat and Kabul.
Scope & Content:
First draft of a fair copy of Lewis Pelly's journal of his journey through Afghanistan. The draft contains crossings out, spelling corrections and other alterations to the main text as well as comments in the left hand margin ranging from notes regarding the individuals who travelled with him, p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1860-16 Nov 1860
Extent:

1 file (340 folios)

5. Mss Eur F126/33

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/33
Title:
Drafts and copies of letters from Lewis Pelly to the Viceroy, Lord Canning, and the British Minister at Tehran, Charles Alison, about his journey through Persia and Afghanistan
Scope & Content:
Drafts and copies of the reports, despatches and letters that Lewis Pelly submitted to His Excellency Earl Canning, Viceroy of India and Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran during his special duty in Afghanistan. These drafts include Pelly's daily despatches from his stay at Herat, whic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1860-10 Sep 1864
Extent:

1 file, 28 items (141 folios)

6. Mss Eur F126/34

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/34
Title:
Copies and Translations of letters in Persian sent to Lewis Pelly.
Scope & Content:
Letter containing a bundle of letters in Persian for Lewis Pelly's information. The letters are primarily between Persian and Afghani officials and include a forwarding letter from William Lockyer Merewether who initially received them. Many of the letters in Persian are written in an illegible ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1860
Extent:

1 file (12 folios)

7. Mss Eur F126/35

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/35
Title:
Memorandum by Lewis Pelly of his meeting with Mahomed Omar Khan, Governor of Bukwa [Bakwāh].
Scope & Content:
'Memo: relative to the proceedings of Mahomed Omar Khan Barucksye [Barakzai], Governor of Bukwa Bakwāh], in my regard'. The memorandum details Pelly's arrival in Keertah [Kirtah], in the plain of Bukwa; his immediate thoughts on the village and the abrupt entrance of the Khan. The memorandum g...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1860
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)