Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Messrs Remington
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Brief note regarding 2,000 rupees from the Government treasury to be credited to Pelly's account; the realisation of his seventy-two shares in the New Bank of Bombay and his ten shares in the Elphinstone Land Company. Below the note is a brief list of letters and notes to be written, the recipi...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Kurrachie [Karachi] en route to Bushire, to 'My dear Sir'
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Letter, possibly to William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay, regarding an appointment in Bagdad which Pelly is unable to accept owing to the current state of affairs with Persia, Arabia, East Africa and Afghanistan. The letter goes on to discuss the new Political Arrangement...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Hubert Isaak Walton
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Letter regarding the cable house which he will write to Tehran about and asking that he send public political news regularly from Kurrachee [Karachi] as he has not heard anything of the latest troubles in Europe and the only news received have been the market rates for cotton as there is no Reut...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Alfred Cotton Way
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Letter regarding Way either taking the Hugh Rose to the Muscat coast or sending her there and then returning to Bassidore and thanking him for his careful and satisfactory management of affairs there. The letter goes on to state that altougth Bassidore should not be left entirely vacant it coul...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Gerald Fitzgerald
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Letter regarding the opening up of trade in the Gulf and the increase in claims and complaints and extra work for the Resident that has been a result of this. The letter also discusses the import and export duties being imposed by the Persian Government at Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh] and Bushire ...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Subzabad, Bushire, to Alfred Cotton Way
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Letter regarding sending Hugh Rose to the Mekran Coast to assist Colonel Goldsmid with his work (surveying telegraph locations) and informing Way that he has requested a clerk from Government to assist him.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Captain George Thomas Robinson
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Letter regarding Pelly's notice of Captain Westbrooke's interest in the command of Dalhousie which he had intended simply as a communication of his application and that in his opinion Captain Elton of Clyde's claims to the post were superior to Captain Westbrooke's. The letter also asks when th...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Gerald Fitzgerald
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Letter regarding events in Muscat over the previous three years, the current situation with regards to Syed Torkee [Turki bin Said] and his potential plans to retake Muscat and the Sultanate as well as reporting on the various factions there and the fall in trade owing to the steamers not callin...