Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, India Office to Lewis Pelly
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Letter, written on thick black edged mourning paper, regarding his brother Captain George William Burne who is a candidate for a vacancy as an elder brother in the Trinity House, and asking whether Richard William Pelly, who is already an elder brother there, is a relative of his and if so wheth...
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Albury, Surrey to Lewis Pelly
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Letter, written on thick black edged mourning paper, in response to the letter of 8 October (folios 28-29v) confirming that his brother (George William Burne) would call on Pelly's cousin (Richard William Pelly). The letter goes on to discuss a matter regarding Pelly's luggage and refers to an...
'Personal and Private D.O. [Demi-Official] Correspondence'
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Correspondence from friends and colleagues of Lewis Pelly discussing personal and professional topics including: Alfred Hyman Louis discussing his opinions on the British Government, the India Office and the running of the Empire and J C A Scote detailing Louis's departure for Melbourne, Austra...
Letter from Alfred Hyman Louis, 11 Ormonde Terrace, Regents Park, London to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding the state of affairs within the new India Office, and the difficulties that Lord Stanley, the new Prime Minister will be facing, in particular with the Military Department. The letter goes on to discuss the state of the Empire, which Louis feels is getting too big for both its ...
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Jacobabad to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding eighty rupees belonging to Pelly which he had instructed should be left in the pay and which Baring is enquiring about as there are no outstanding monies to be paid. The letter goes on to give news of the appointment which William Merewether has offered him, the recent fearful ...
Letter from George Mathieson Ogilvie, Bombay to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding the estrangement of Pelly and Ogilvie's friendship and Ogilvie's desire for reconciliation. The letter goes on to discuss Major Macleod Innes who is writing a work on the history of the mutiny and who wishes information on particular points which Ogilvie believes Pelly can assi...
Letter from John Wortley de la More, Cedar Grove, Richmond, Surrey to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding arrangements for an extension of the Electric Telegraph from Baghdad to Bassorah [Basra] and then via the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee [Karachi] and discussing this route as a more commercially and politically viable one than through the Red Sea where the telegraph has ruptured sev...
Letter from Alfred Hyman Louis, London to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding his friendship with Pelly, and giving his personal opinions and thoughts on government and the ruling of the British empire. Mr Louis' handwriting is very difficult to read.
Letter from Sir Henry Rawlinson, London to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Rawlinson's marriage which was due to take place that week but which had been postponed owing to matters in Persia. The letter goes on to discuss Pelly's appointment in Persia and proposes that he apply to return to India via Herat and Cabul [Kabul] in order to demonstrate to L...
