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1411. Mss Eur F126/43, ff 91-92

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/43, ff 91-92
Title:
Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, Bassidore, to Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding a Dr I Williams who wishes to be appointed as the Assistant Surgeon at Muscat and giving his support to the application. The letter also reiterates the request for a vessel in the Gulf that can use sails in order to save on coal. The letter concludes by discussing a letter fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1867
Extent:

2 folios

1412. Mss Eur F126/43, ff 104v-105v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/43, ff 104v-105v
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp en route to Bushire, to Sir Bartle Frere
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the sealing and exchanging of the Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] lease and Pelly's forthcoming departure for Bahrein where he has been ordered to punish the Bahrein shaik (Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah). The letter also refers to Pelly's correspondence with the Viceroy...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1868
Extent:

2 folios

1413. Mss Eur F126/43, ff 108v-109

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/43, ff 108v-109
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to His Highness Syed Torkee [Turki bin Said]
Scope & Content:
Letter which addresses His Highness as 'my brother mason' thanking him for a photograph and enclosing one of himself.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1869
Extent:

2 folios

1414. Mss Eur F126/44, f 92

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/44, f 92
Title:
Copy letter from James Charles Edwards, Bushire to Captain A Atkinson, British India Steam Navigation Company's Steamer Euphrates, Bushire Roads
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding a telegram sent to the Melik-ool Toojjar [Malik al-Tujjar] from Adbul Nubbey relating to slaves who had run away with stolen belongings on the steamer Euphrates and asking Captain Atkinson what he knows of the slaves and whether he believes the charges to be true so that he can ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jul 1866
Extent:
1 folio

1415. Mss Eur F126/45, f 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/45, f 7
Title:
Letter from Hajee [Haji] Ahmed, Bushire to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding his thirty-four years of service to the British Government and his petition for a pension as he is no longer able to carry out his duties.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 folio

1416. Mss Eur F126/45, f 8

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/45, f 8
Title:
Letter from Hajee [Haji] Ahmed, Bushire to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding recent murders in Muscat and the methods that the 'Arabs' guilty of committing them have for obtaining protection from prosecution.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 folio

1417. Mss Eur F126/45, ff 38-40

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/45, ff 38-40
Title:
Letter from Oliver St John, , Shiraz to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the news of the loss of the Berenice and Pelly's lucky escape. The letter goes on to discuss the Hissam-a-Sultaneh's decision to establish a Persian fort at Lingah [Bandar-e-Lengeh] in order to try and prevent smuggling from there to and from Shiraz. The letter also discusses...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Nov 1866
Extent:
3 folios

1418. Mss Eur F126/45, ff 81-84

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/45, ff 81-84
Title:
Letter from Arsham J Malcolm, Bushire to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the news of Pelly's health and steady recovering and sending him the detailed information he had requested on the state of agriculture, famine and trade in and around Bushire. The information, compiled from local enquiries, reports that the agricultural prospects of the area d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Oct 1871
Extent:
4 folios

1419. Mss Eur F126/45, ff 85-86

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/45, ff 85-86
Title:
Letter from S? Malcolm, Bushire to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the news of Pelly's health and local matters relative to Bushire including: Orders from the Commissioner in Sind regarding charges for the shipping of opium from Kurrachee [Karachi] and enquiring whether the charges would apply if an opium cargo was aboard a ship passing through...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Oct 1871
Extent:
2 folios

1420. Mss Eur F126/46, ff 14-15

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/46, ff 14-15
Title:
Letter to Thuwaini bin Said, Sultan of Muscat from an undisclosed author (Lewis Pelly?)
Scope & Content:
Letter in Arabic, with envelope, to Thuwaini bin Said al-Said, Sultan of Muscat. The letter is most likely from Lewis Pelly, as folio 16 contains a letter to Pelly from His Highness. The letter is most likely written sometime between 1863 and 1865 as Lewis Pelly only commenced his position as ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
1863?-1865?
Extent:
2 folios