Part of memorandum about Amir Faisul ibn Turki al Sa'ud of the Wahabees [Wahhabi]
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Incomplete memorandum, written in pencil, regarding the tribute that Amir Faisaul ibn Turki al Sa'ud of the Wahabees [Wahhabi] pays to the Porte and the revenues he receives both in terms of money and horses as well as in military aid. The memorandum also refers to agreements with other tribes ...
The recto of folio 75 and the verso of folio 76 contain rough geographical pencil sketches. The first shows a particular area of Nejd [Najd] in relation to key villages and towns; the second appears to show a valley, or other similar geographic feature, with place names and travelling directions...
Notes on the statements made in William Gifford Palgrave's book Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia
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The statements were originally intended to form Appendix 12 of Colonel Pelly's Riyadh report No.57 dated 15 May 1866 and were produced following a request from the British Government for Pelly to go through William Gifford Palgrave's book and verify the truth, or otherwise, of accusations, asser...
Summaries of statements by various individuals concerning William Gifford Palgrave's travels throughout Arabia
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The file contains three separate statements regarding William Gifford Palgrave's travels throughout Arabia, all relating to the disguises and aliases that Palgrave used to travel and his willingness to assume the religion of whichever place he was travelling through. The first statement is a tra...
Copies of correspondence concerning the conduct of Dr William Henry Colvill, the Residency Surgeon, during the expedition to Riadh [Riyadh] and after
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Political Department Reports regarding Pelly's concerns over the conduct of Assistant Surgeon Dr William Henry Colvill. Colvill is accused of having assumed unauthorised responsibility for Pelly's duties during his absence in England and for giving secret and personal information to the Royal G...
Copy of letter No.57 of 1865 from Pelly to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Correspondence regarding accusations that Dr Colvill assumed Pelly's duties and pursued lines of policy without Pelly's permission to do so, and corresponded with government under these assumptions without producing proof of his right to do so. The letter gives details of Pelly's previous exper...
Letter No.58 of 1865 from Pelly to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Bombay
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Copy of a letter regarding Pelly's expedition to Riyadh for which all correspondence and communications were for the secret department only, and his apprehensions about Dr Colvill accompanying him on the expedition. The letter goes on to give details of a journal and other correspondence which ...
Letter No.100 of 1865 from Pelly to Dr William Henry Colvill, the Residency Surgeon in Bushire
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Copy of a letter dated 23 December 1865 concerning Dr Colvill's breach of privacy in relation to the publicity of their trip to Riyadh earlier that year. Pelly asks Colvill to submit to government an explanation of his conduct. A second letter dated 27 December 1865 is also enclosed in which Co...
Letter No.110 of 1865 from Pelly to Dr William Henry Colvill, Residency Surgeon at Bushire
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Copy of a letter in which Pelly accuses Dr Colvill of evading his questioning and requests that Colvill meet him at 2 p.m. to review the letters purported to have been written by him and to look at the passage from the Edinburgh Review. Enclosed with the letter are notes on the meeting between ...
Correspondence between Pelly and Dr William Henry Colvill
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Copies of correspondence between Pelly and Dr Colvill written on blue paper and in the handwriting of a third [unidentified] individual. Some of these letters are duplicates of other copies elsewhere in the file. The correspondence includes: Copy of a letter from Pelly to Colvill, 13 February ...
