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131. Mss Eur F126/85, ff 24-27

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/85, ff 24-27
Title:
'Confidential Telegrams concerning Removal of Commission to Bombay'
Scope & Content:
Copies of confidential telegrams to Sir Lewis Pelly, Baroda regarding the removal of the Baroda Commission to Bombay: Copy Telegram from the Foreign Secretary, Calcutta (Charles Umpherston Aitchison) to Sir Lewis Pelly, Baroda, 14 March 1875 reporting that the Commission expects to close on Wedn...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Mar 1875
Extent:
4 folios

132. Mss Eur F126/88, f 14

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/88, f 14
Title:
Pencil notes written by Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Two pencil notes written by Lewis Pelly, one dated 14 January 1875 and the other 18 January 1875, possibly replies to Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. The notes relate to forty lakhs of money which had allegedly been removed from Baroda and was intende...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Jan 1875-18 Jan 1875
Extent:
1 folio

133. Mss Eur F126/47

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47
Title:
Personal and official letters to Lewis Pelly from colleagues and friends in India.
Scope & Content:
Letters to Lewis Pelly, relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf, from colleagues and friends in India and Britain, including Patrick Ryan, Abraham Nickson Hojel and Robert Brown. Other correspondents of note include Hubert Izaak Walton (Director of the Indo-European Telegraph Company), Sir Bar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1863-5 Feb 1869
Extent:

1 file, 29 items (70 folios)

134. Mss Eur F126/63

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/63
Title:
Minute by Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, on the power of the Wahabees in Central Arabia
Scope & Content:
The minute by Sir Bartle Frere summarises the history of the Wahabee [Wahabi] power in Central Arabia, checks to their power about forty-five years ago and more recent incidents which are a cause for concern. Frere refers to visits made by William Palgrave and Lewis Pelly to the Wahabee Capital...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Oct 1865
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

135. Mss Eur F126/68

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/68
Title:
Reviews of A Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia, 1862-63 by William Gifford Palgrave, Published 1865
Scope & Content:
Three published reviews of Palgrave's Arabia, one from a journal and two from newspapers: Pages 182-215 from the Quarterly Review which contained a review of Palgrave's Arabia (ff. 2v-19). The review is undated but is believed to be c.1865. Press cutting from the Friend of India of their review ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865
Extent:

1 file (21 folios)

136. Mss Eur F126/69, f 37v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/69, f 37v
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] to Captain Thomas Cadell
Scope & Content:
Letter inviting Cadell to bring Dr R M Downie to Agra with him and asking whether Captain Percy William Powlett would like to come too. The letter also discusses the matter of officers having been discovered taking their leave outside of the province without permission.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1873
Extent:
1 folio

137. Mss Eur F126/69, f 67v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/69, f 67v
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly to Captain Arthur William Roberts
Scope & Content:
Letter informing him that his duties in relation to the transit of His Excellency to Bhurtpore [Bharatpur] will commence at Futtehpoor Sikrie [Fatehpur Sīkri] and that arrangements should be made for the party to travel through Deyg [Dīg] and Muthra [Mathura]. The letter also requests that a tr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1873
Extent:
1 folio

138. Mss Eur F126/69, ff 32-33

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/69, ff 32-33
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Dhola to James Cavan Berkeley
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding arranging a meeting with the Chief's at Deolee [Deoli] and ensuring that no undue pressure is placed on them in regards to their attending it. The letter also discusses Pelly's travel movement and when he hopes to catch his camp up.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1873
Extent:
2 folios

139. Mss Eur F126/69, ff 60-61

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/69, ff 60-61
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Agra to James Cavan Berkeley
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Pelly having brought to notice his services in his letter on Kotah [Kota] affairs, and his intention of doing so again once their work there is complete.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Nov 1873
Extent:
2 folios

140. Mss Eur F126/69, ff 65-66

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/69, ff 65-66
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly to James Robert Simson, Collector
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Mr Simsons troubles with the Vakeels and enclosing a note (no longer enclosed) from his assistant Captain Adelbert Cecil Talbot regarding the actions they have already taken in the hope there will be no further cause for complaint. The letter contains the printed seal of the Ea...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1873
Extent:
2 folios