Abstract of a khureeta [kharīṭa] from Khowas Parbuhseye, concubine of the late Maharajah Sirdar Sing [Sardar Singh] of Bikaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel John Cheape Brooke
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Letter discussing the inheritance her son had received from his late father Maharajah Sardar Singh and a decision to remove some of the lands and power from him.
Letter from [Bruce?] Deare, Mahableshwur [Mahābaleshwar] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Pelly's safe arrival in Simla, asking if he has made the acquaintance of William Hanson Chippendale who commands his regiment and asking him to present his Salaam's to Sir Henry Norman, should Pelly see him.
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Brief letter informing Pelly that Lord Northbrook (Viceroy of India) had approved James Charles Edwards' appointment at Bushire and asking if he should gazetted as Second Assistant.
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison to Lewis Pelly, with response
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Letter from Aitchison regarding the agreed facts in a legal case in Ajmere [Ajmer] and asking for Pelly's thoughts on which course they should pursue (the letter refers to an enclosed letter about the case which is no longer there). Pelly's response to Aitchison's query is given below the origi...
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Military Secretary to the Viceroy, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding some papers, that were being sent separately, which the Viceroy wished Pelly to read before they met the following day. The papers relate to the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Laing Mackeson in allowing his assistant surgeon to live with him in a state of drunkenness a...
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Military Secretary to the Viceroy, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding the Viceroy's appointment of Percy William Smith to be the officiating adjutant of the Mhairwarra [Merwāra] battalion and checking whether Pelly still had any of the papers relating to Meywar [Mewār]
Letter from Joseph West Ridgeway to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding an accident that Pelly had, his thoughts on Aboo [Ābu], the business with Frederick Laing Mackeson and who might get his appointment, and giving news of friends and colleagues including John Underwood Champain and Albert James Leppoc Cappel who are off to Vienna to attend a tele...
Letter enquiring after Pelly in India, describing the weather and asking how best to obtain Rose Water in the Gulf. The letter also mentions an enclosed note from Sir Bartle Frere (which is no longer enclosed).
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Simla to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding the differences between Rajputana [Rājasthān] affairs and Persian Gulf affairs; Aitchison's impressions of the Bhurtpore [Bharatpur] Chief; mail robberies in Jeypore [Jaipur]; the success of the Durbar in Ajmere [Ajmer]; news of happenings in the Gulf; trouble with the Turks at ...
