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221. Mss Eur F126/73, ff 2-3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/73, ff 2-3
Title:
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Leslie Seymour Saunders
Scope & Content:
Letter, dated 30 June 1873 regarding the Mayo College File, which had taken some time to put together for Saunders and discussing what he had and hadn't included in it. The file and précis which are referred to in the letter are no longer enclosed. A postscript to the letter, dated 1 July 1873,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1873
Extent:
2 folios

222. Mss Eur F126/73, ff 6-7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/73, ff 6-7
Title:
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Herbert Mills Repton
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding a recent trip to Tadgarh and his success in getting both sides to sign an agreement to avoid further fighting. The letter goes on to give details of the settlement and the difficulties he encountered on his return journey.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jul 1873
Extent:
2 folios

223. Mss Eur F126/73, ff 8-11

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/73, ff 8-11
Title:
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Leslie Seymour Saunders
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding his having sent a full account of his doings to Herbert Mills Repton, the difficulties he had encountered in meeting a local ruler, including rudeness and false messages regarding ill health. The letter goes on to discuss reports submitted in vernacular, Urdu and English; the b...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1873
Extent:
4 folios

224. Mss Eur F126/73, ff 12-13

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/73, ff 12-13
Title:
Letter from Captain Donald Robertson, Beawar to Colonel Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter informing Pelly that he may have trouble getting through the Diwer Pass to Dasswii and suggesting he use the direct route to Udepur [Udaipur] instead, as well as informing him that the roads were being prepared for his carriage and describing the landmarks he would be able to see on the d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Feb 1874
Extent:
2 folios

225. Mss Eur F126/77, ff 13-18

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/77, ff 13-18
Title:
Report on the medical care of the Maharaja Sir Takht Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur
Scope & Content:
Report, mostly likely written by Doctor James William Moore, Doctor to the Rajputana [Rājasthān] Agency regarding the death of Sir Takht Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur, who died on 13 February 1873, and describing his last weeks including treatments given to him by himself, as well as those given by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Feb 1873
Extent:
6 folios

226. Mss Eur F126/17

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/17
Title:
Journals kept by Lewis Pelly recording journeys and events in India and Zanzibar
Scope & Content:
File containing journals kept by Lewis Pelly during his early career in India. The journals include a recollection, written in 1854, of a post monsoon journey from Kurrachee [Karachi] to Bombay in 1842; journeys taken in India in 1855 to mark his thirtieth birthday; an excursion to visit a tomb ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1854-1862
Extent:

1 file, 5 items (27 folios)

227. Mss Eur F126/35

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/35
Title:
Memorandum by Lewis Pelly of his meeting with Mahomed Omar Khan, Governor of Bukwa [Bakwāh].
Scope & Content:
'Memo: relative to the proceedings of Mahomed Omar Khan Barucksye [Barakzai], Governor of Bukwa Bakwāh], in my regard'. The memorandum details Pelly's arrival in Keertah [Kirtah], in the plain of Bukwa; his immediate thoughts on the village and the abrupt entrance of the Khan. The memorandum g...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Nov 1860
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

228. Mss Eur F126/46

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/46
Title:
Letters to Lewis Pelly from local rulers and shaikhs, with translations in English.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence in Arabic, mostly with translations in English, from Thuwaini bin Said, Sultan of Muscat; Zayid I bin Khalifah Al-Nahyan, Chief of Abu Dhabi; Abdullah bin Faisal bin Turki al-Saud, Ruler of Najd; Majid bin Said Al-Busair, Sultan of Zanzibar; the British native agent at Sharjah, Ha...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1863-1870
Extent:

1 file, 9 items (17 folios)

229. Mss Eur F126/55

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/55
Title:
Official correspondence between Lewis Pelly and the Political Department, Bombay concerning Pelly's visit to Riyadh.
Scope & Content:
Official correspondence between Lewis Pelly and the Secretary to Government in the Political Department Bombay, some of which is in draft form regarding reports by Lewis Pelly on his trip to Riyadh, and his opinions on the ongoing dispute between the Sultans of Muscat and the Wahhabi. The corre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1864-Mar 1866
Extent:

1 file, 9 items (28 folios)

230. Mss Eur F126/69, f 54

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/69, f 54
Title:
Note from Lewis Pelly, Agra to the Government of India
Scope & Content:
Note regarding the return of letter No.115 Political of 10 September 1873, from the India Office to the Government of India, which had been transmitted to Pelly with letter No.2621P of 30 October 1873 for information.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Nov 1873
Extent:
1 folio