Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp near Sambhur [Sāmbhar] Lake to Sir Henry Montgomery
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Letter in response to Sir Montgomery's requesting Pelly's assistance in securing a position in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] for Captain Arthur Conolly. Pelly's response is that there are others currently acting as Commandants of Seconds within the province who Government would not pass over for promo...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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Letter enclosing a letter from Captain Powlett giving the opinion of the Residency Surgeon on the health og the late Maharana and more thoughts on his successor, but reserving opinion until he has received Captain Powlett's detailed report.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Colonel William Carnell
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Letter regarding dealing with the Meywar [Mewār] Thakoors (local nobles); Carnell's response regarding Asuf Khan and a strange case of a father asking his son to aid him in being buried alive. The letter also discusses the opening of the Railway line which will take place with festivities the n...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Colonel John Allen Wright
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Letter approving all that Colonel Wright has done and informing him that his Demi-Official has been sent to the Foreign Secretary (Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby). The letter also informs the Colonel that the General at Mhow Division will reply to his requisition and enclosing new dr...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Alfred Comyns Lyall, Home Secretary to the Government of India, Calcutta
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Letter arranging to meet Lyall in Calcutta in order to discuss arrangements and matters relating to Rajpootana [Rājasthān] and also enquiring if he wishes to take over any of the furniture, crockery or stores currently at the Residency.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Jeypore [Jaipur] to Lord Northbrook [Thomas George Baring]
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Letter thanking his Lordship for approving Pelly's request to take leave owing to his deteriorating eyesight which he needs to take precautions for, and discussing the causes of and possible solutions to it. The letter continues by discussing Pelly's satisfaction with arrangements within the R...
Government House Letters Received Rajputana [Rājasthān]
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Correspondence to Lewis Pelly, primarily from the secretaries at Government House including Charles Umpherston Aitchison and Philip Durham Henderson of the Foreign Department, and Colonel William Earle and Captain Evelyn Baring, Secretaries to His Excellency Lord Northbrook, Viceroy of India. ...
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly, care of the Political Agent, Muscat
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Letter thanking Pelly for his letters of 17 January 1873 and 13 March 1873 regarding the negotiations in Zanzibar and expressing his hopes that if Pelly does go to Rajpootana [Rājasthān] they will be able to meet again sooner than expected.
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Gorton Castle, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Pelly's arrival in India, and a previous letter he had sent to Muscat which he assumes Pelly did not receive. The letter goes on to discuss his expectation that Pelly will come to Simla with Sir Bartle Frere and stay with Aitchison as well as visiting Government House.
