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161. Mss Eur F126/5, ff 24-25

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/5, ff 24-25
Title:
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter, written on black edged mourning paper, regarding the resurfacing of the Cabul question following the arrival in Cabul [Kabul] of an envoy from the Czar of Russia, despite the Emperor having stated several days earlier that he had not given the authority for any such action. The letter g...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1878
Extent:
2 folios

162. Mss Eur F126/5, ff 26-27

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/5, ff 26-27
Title:
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, India Office to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter, written on thick black edged mourning paper, regarding his recent illness and their having missed each other in Bournemouth as Pelly had already left. The letter also informs Pelly that he will not be discussing Cabul [Kabul] affairs as it is all in The Times which has been obtaining go...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Oct 1878
Extent:
2 folios

163. Mss Eur F126/5, ff 28-29

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/5, ff 28-29
Title:
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, India Office to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter, written on thick black edged mourning paper, regarding his brother Captain George William Burne who is a candidate for a vacancy as an elder brother in the Trinity House, and asking whether Richard William Pelly, who is already an elder brother there, is a relative of his and if so wheth...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1878
Extent:
2 folios

164. Mss Eur F126/5, ff 31-32

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/5, ff 31-32
Title:
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Albury, Surrey to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter, written on thick black edged mourning paper, in response to the letter of 8 October (folios 28-29v) confirming that his brother (George William Burne) would call on Pelly's cousin (Richard William Pelly). The letter goes on to discuss a matter regarding Pelly's luggage and refers to an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1878
Extent:
2 folios

165. Mss Eur F126/6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/6
Title:
'Personal and Private D.O. [Demi-Official] Correspondence'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from friends and colleagues of Lewis Pelly discussing personal and professional topics including: Alfred Hyman Louis discussing his opinions on the British Government, the India Office and the running of the Empire and J C A Scote detailing Louis's departure for Melbourne, Austra...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1858-1 Nov 1865
Extent:

1 file, 10 items (31 folios)

166. Mss Eur F126/6, f 31

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/6, f 31
Title:
Letter from J A Brown and Company to Lewis Pelly, Government House, Kirkee
Scope & Content:
Letter 4/3931 informing Pelly they have written to J Arthur esq. regarding the disposal of a case.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1865
Extent:
1 folio

167. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 2-3

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/6, ff 2-3
Title:
Letter from Alfred Hyman Louis, 11 Ormonde Terrace, Regents Park, London to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the state of affairs within the new India Office, and the difficulties that Lord Stanley, the new Prime Minister will be facing, in particular with the Military Department. The letter goes on to discuss the state of the Empire, which Louis feels is getting too big for both its ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Sep 1858
Extent:
2 folios

168. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 4-5

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/6, ff 4-5
Title:
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Jacobabad to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding eighty rupees belonging to Pelly which he had instructed should be left in the pay and which Baring is enquiring about as there are no outstanding monies to be paid. The letter goes on to give news of the appointment which William Merewether has offered him, the recent fearful ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jul 1859
Extent:
2 folios

169. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 6-11

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/6, ff 6-11
Title:
Letter from George Mathieson Ogilvie, Bombay to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the estrangement of Pelly and Ogilvie's friendship and Ogilvie's desire for reconciliation. The letter goes on to discuss Major Macleod Innes who is writing a work on the history of the mutiny and who wishes information on particular points which Ogilvie believes Pelly can assi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Mar 1860
Extent:
6 folios

170. Mss Eur F126/6, ff 12-17

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/6, ff 12-17
Title:
Letter from John Wortley de la More, Cedar Grove, Richmond, Surrey to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding arrangements for an extension of the Electric Telegraph from Baghdad to Bassorah [Basra] and then via the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee [Karachi] and discussing this route as a more commercially and politically viable one than through the Red Sea where the telegraph has ruptured sev...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1860
Extent:
6 folios