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1431. Mss Eur F126/22, f 41v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/22, f 41v
Title:
Letter No.825 of 1869 from Sir William Lockyer Merewether, the Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Camp Kanhur to Colonel Robert Phayre, the Political Superintendent, Upper Sind Frontier
Scope & Content:
Letter requesting that Colonel Phayre provide him with information regarding the nature of the regular force maintained by the Khan, including what countrymen it is composed of and exact numbers of Artillery, Cavalry or Infantry; Information relating to the cost of the force and its maintenance,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1869
Extent:
1 folio

1432. Mss Eur F126/22, ff 42-44

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/22, ff 42-44
Title:
Letter No.57 of 1869 from Captain Charles Henry Harrison, Political Agent, Kelat, at Jacobabad to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
Scope & Content:
Letter supplying the information requested by Sir William Merewether in relation to the regular force maintained by the Khan of Kelat [Kalāt]; and the allegiences of the Chiefs of Beloochistan [Baluchistan]. The letter details the strength and composition of the Khan's forces, details how reve...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1869
Extent:
3 folios

1433. Mss Eur F126/22, ff 68-79

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/22, ff 68-79
Title:
Letter No.528 of 1870 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, K.C.S.I. & C.B., Commissioner's Office, Kurrachee [Karachi] to His Excellency The Right Honourable Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey Fitzgerald, G.C.S.I., Governor and President in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter relating to matters which had recently occured on the Frontier of Sind. The letter commences by stating Merewether's original assumptions that his comments on Colonel Phayre's narrative of events in Khelat [Kalāt] should have been sufficient to resolve the wrong impressions of affairs he...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Aug 1870
Extent:
12 folios

1434. Mss Eur F126/33, ff 15-16

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/33, ff 15-16
Title:
Letter No.4 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
Scope & Content:
Letter reporting on Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan's concerns that Dost Mahomed Khan intends to take Mermenah [Maīmanah] and to invade Herat territory, that he receives secret information through one of his wives who is the daughter of Dost Mahomed Khan, and that he believes the Indian Government to b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1860
Extent:
2 folios

1435. Mss Eur F126/33, ff 17-18

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/33, ff 17-18
Title:
Letter No.5 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
Scope & Content:
Letter informing His Excellency that the Persian Army at Merve [Merv] had been 'utterly defeated' at the hands of the Turcomans. The letter goes on to describe a letter from Humza Mirza which had arrived by messenger from Ameer [Amir] Shah Nawaz Khan's camp informing them of the attack on the P...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Oct 1860
Extent:
2 folios

1436. Mss Eur F126/33, ff 31-32

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/33, ff 31-32
Title:
Letter No.11 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to Charles John Canning, Earl Canning, Viceroy of India
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding a despatch from Sir Henry Rawlinson to Lord John Russell, 17 May 1860 in which Pelly was instructed to travel Eastward to Herat and Caubul [Kabul] and then on to meet with his Lordship in India. The letter encloses copies of Pelly's previous despatches 1-10 (folios 11-30) showi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1860
Extent:
2 folios

1437. Mss Eur F126/33, ff 33-34

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/33, ff 33-34
Title:
Private letter from Lewis Pelly, Herat to Charles John Canning, Earl Canning, Viceroy of India
Scope & Content:
Private and unofficial letter explaining the lack of information in his accompanying despatch and the reason for his having forwarded a rough copy of his memorandum on the Persian defeat at Merv, which was owing to his horse having rolled on him in a river en route to the Persian Camp. The lett...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1860
Extent:
2 folios

1438. Mss Eur F126/33, ff 35-36

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/33, ff 35-36
Title:
Letter No.12 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
Scope & Content:
Letter requesting that Charles Alison (British Minister at Tehran) forward the enclosed message as a telegram to Earl Canning (Viceroy of India). The telegram reported that the Persian Force at Merv, which consisted of 30,000 men, 27 guns, and 20,000 followers, had been defeated by the Tekkie [...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Oct 1860
Extent:
2 folios

1439. Mss Eur F126/33, ff 37-38

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/33, ff 37-38
Title:
Letter No.14 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
Scope & Content:
Letter reporting that Sirdar Shir Ahmed Khan, third son of Sultan Ahmed Khan age 14, had died on 17 October of a wound to the mouth incurred a few days prior during action between his father's troops and the Jumsheedee [Jamshidi] tribe.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1860
Extent:
2 folios

1440. Mss Eur F126/36, ff 2-3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/36, ff 2-3
Title:
Letter from Pelly regarding a journal of his travels through Afghanistan that may be of interest to the Viceroy of India
Scope & Content:
The letter summarizes the journal kept by Pelly when travelling through Afghanistan on government duty in 1860, stating that it is based on personal observations and also includes letters Pelly wrote to Lord Canning (Charles John Canning) which may be of interest or relevance.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
07 May 1869
Extent:
2 folios