Letter from Lewis Pelly to Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the need to employ a confidential clerk as Pelly has been using a young man he trained in the Persian Gulf, but that he will be required to return there now Pelly's appointment has been confirmed. The letter goes on to comment on the essential use the young man has been as the ...
Letter No.11 of 1873 from Lewis Pelly, Jeypore [Jaipur] to an undisclosed recipient (Government of India?)
Scope & Content:
Letter concerning the 'advisability or otherwise' of developing pearl fisheries in the deeper channels of the Persian Gulf. The letter details the political situation in regards to responsibility for the pearl banks in the Gulf; past actions taken by the Government to prevent British subjects o...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to His Lordship the Viceroy of India (Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook)
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the spring crops which are thriving; matters with the Ulwer [Alwar] Chief; the appointment of a new native minister in Kotah; current matters in Bikaneer [Bīkāner] where there as been a change of ministry; matters in Dholepore [Dholpur] where individuals have been meddling the a...
Copy of a letter from Lewis Pelly, Jeypore [Jaipur] to Captain Henry Byam Abbott
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the available appointment in Ulwa [Alwar] and Abbott's interest in it, and discussing the system of grading for officers in the political department.
Letter from Lewis Pelly to Captain Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary to the Viceroy (Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook)
Scope & Content:
Letter thanking his Lordship (Thomas George Baring, 2nd Baron Northbrook, Viceroy of India) for Captain Henry Byam Abbott's appointment; a new appointment to the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] Police Agency; problems with the conduct of Captain Victor Edward Law; the Raja of Rajpootana consenting to Fyz...
Letter book of private letters from Lewis Pelly to various persons.
Scope & Content:
The letter book consists of correspondence primarily between Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor General in Rajputana [Rājasthān], and the individuals who reported to him including his assistants Henry Byam Abbott, Charles Allan Baylay and William Howell Beynon; the Political Agents for Jaipur, M...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Brigadier-General John Dobrée Woollcombe
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding repairs to a wall in the Ajmer fort; an urgent letter that has been written to Government regarding the 'Danta' work; the repair of a water tank below Happy Valley and the donation Government have made towards James Dawson Macdonald's church in Deolee [Deoli].
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to James Dawson Macdonald
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding a Coat of Arms which Macdonald's men, the Deolee [Deoli] Irregular Force, have given to Pelly and apologising for not acknowledging the gift sooner as he had been away in England.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to the Secretary to the New Bank of Bombay Limited
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 28 July 1874, enclosing a warrant which he would like the bank to cash and credit to his account. A postscript to the letter records that a receipt for the warrant was received from the bank on 3August 1874.
