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1. 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)

2. Mss Eur F126/47, f 70

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, f 70
Title:
Letter from Patrick Ryan to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the Government having sanctioned two assistants to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1866
Extent:
12 folio

3. Mss Eur F126/47, ff 68-69

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, ff 68-69
Title:
Letter from Patrick Ryan to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter, marked private, regarding the 'supreme Government's' decision to uphold Pelly's censure whilst agreeing with his vindication, acknowledging his excellent service and forwarding the discussion to the Secretary of State for India. The letter goes on to discuss the disasters of the financi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
?1866
Extent:
2 folios

4. Mss Eur F126/47, ff 24-25

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, ff 24-25
Title:
Letter from Ronald Campbell, Kurrachee [Karachi] to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding rumours that Colonel Herbert Disbrowe may not return to Muscat and the likelihood of his obtaining the position there.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Mar 1866
Extent:
2 folios

5. Mss Eur F126/47, ff 1-3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, ff 1-3
Title:
Letter from Patrick Ryan, Bombay to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Captain Felix Jones who has returned to Bombay with the expectation of resuming his telegraph position in the Gulf, but that the Bombay Government has received no instructions in relation to an appointment for him. The letter goes on to give news of Captain Robert Lambert Play...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1863
Extent:
3 folios

6. Mss Eur F126/47, ff 6-7

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, ff 6-7
Title:
Letter from Robert Grant Watson, Blackhouse, Ayr, Scotland to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter providing Pelly with advice on travelling to Tehran via the Volga including where to obtain horses, where to catch the steamer and places that would be worth visiting en route.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Sep 1865
Extent:
2 folios

7. Mss Eur F126/47, ff 16-17

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, ff 16-17
Title:
Letter from Patrick Ryan, Bombay to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the arrival of Commander Montresor and HMS Severn in Bombay and the Commander's arrangements to assist Pelly in the Gulf and send steam tenders to Muscat. The letter also discusses the situation in Muscat including the various scenarios that could arise if Sultan Thoweynee [Say...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1865
Extent:
2 folios

8. Mss Eur F126/47, ff 18-19

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, ff 18-19
Title:
Letter from Herbert Edward Jacomb, Bombay to Colonel Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding obtaining a consignment of pearl oysters from the Persian Gulf in order to replenish existing exhausted pearl beds in Ceylon [Sir Lanka].
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1865
Extent:
2 folios

9. Mss Eur F126/47, ff 20-21

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, ff 20-21
Title:
Letter from Henry? Taylor, Guzeroom [Kāzerūn?] to Colonel Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter requesting that Pelly assist his friend Mr R Helme to get to Busreh [Basra] and Baghdad.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Mar 1866
Extent:
2 folios

10. Mss Eur F126/47, ff 22-23

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/47, ff 22-23
Title:
Letter from Saville Marriot Pelly , Gulan? to Colonel Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding his departure from Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] and his safe arrival in Gulan? and requesting that Pelly inform Kitty [Catherine Frances Hojel, his sister-in-law] that he will write to her the following day. The letter also discusses a conversation he had with the Governor of Bomba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Mar 1866
Extent:
2 folios

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