Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Mr Fago?
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Letter regarding the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] Railway and his pressing the matter with the Government of India as well as the need for Mr Fago? to keep pressing Government if he wants to get a railway.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Aboo [Ābu] to James Dawson Macdonald
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Letter regarding an enclosure from an officer requesting to be excused from providing men for the Agent to the Governor General's escort this season and Pelly's view that this is an informal and unusual question which is not standard military discipline or procedure. Pelly goes on to request tha...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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Letter regarding notes on the Ajmere [Ajmer] police and the small cause courts at Ajmere and Pelly's need on several occasions to express his 'emphatic' official displeasure with Leslie Saunders as well as describing his issues and reasons for disliking the man and his work. The letter goes on ...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Aboo [Ābu] to William Arden Crommelin
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Letter regarding an engineer, Mr Span, who had been unable to carry out his orders to report on the Roskeekishen road and had returned to Aboo [Ābu] to await further orders instead of continuing to his destination and writing for orders from there. The letter also requests any reports on engin...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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Letter regarding the movements of Pelly's camp and his intention, on reaching Jeypore [Jaipur] to travel to Calcutta to see an occulist as his eyes are worsening. The letter also discusses matters with Saunders; an unpleasant and delicate discussion between Captain Roberts and the Maharaja of ...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Anandroo Narayn Vasedes
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Letter regarding Anandroo's decision to follow in his late father's footsteps and arranging for the bust of Pelly to be sent to him. The letter also requests that his money in the Bank of Bombay be credited to his personal account by the executors and regarding a note for Captain Henry: Note to ...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Aboo [Ābu] to Colonel William Carnell
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Letter regarding an unofficial letter that had been inadvertently included with the official papers and the procedure for withdrawing it. The letter goes on to explain to Carnell the difference between Unofficial and official letters and that although unofficial letters often contained intimati...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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Letter regarding the attention that Pelly has been paying to the subject of Nawab Faiz Alli [Ali] Khan and the actions that he has attempted to take in the matter, the Nawabs response to these actions and the matter of a Jagheer which had been granted to him. The letter also discusses reports s...