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91. Mss Eur F126/22, f 143

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/22, f 143
Title:
Letter from William Lockyer Merewether, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre
Scope & Content:
Demi-official letter regarding the Colonel's response, dated 1 September 1870, to Merewether's letter of 28 August and again expressing his despair at the Colonel's inability to view his position 'in the proper light'. The letter goes on to remind Colonel Phayre that as his superior all communi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Sep 1870
Extent:
1 folio

92. Mss Eur F126/38, f 116v

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/38, f 116v
Title:
Letter No. 90 of 1866 from Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter repeating the request made in No. 40 of 1866 to sell the Bughla that had belonged to the Shaikh of Bahrain and regarding the ongoing charges that are being incurred in keeping it as it is leaking.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
03 Oct 1866
Extent:

1 folio

93. Mss Eur F126/38, ff 6v-12

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/38, ff 6v-12
Title:
Letter No. 55 of 1865 from Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Lewis Pelly's meeting with the Sultan of Muskat [Muscat] (Thuwaini bin Said) at Burkah [Barka] and the Sultan's request for assistance in terms of money, guns and muntions in order to defend his inland frontiers from the Wahabees [Wahhabi] and to take the Wahabee stronghold of B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1865
Extent:
7 folios

94. Mss Eur F126/38, ff 105v-106

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/38, ff 105v-106
Title:
Letter No. 83 of 1866 from Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter reporting his arrival at Bushire and that all matters at Muskat [Muscat] have been satisfactorily arranged. The letter goes on to report on a visit to the Telegraph Station at Mussendom [Musandam] and to give his observations that the Arab tribes around the coast have been showing a 'conc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1866
Extent:

2 folios

95. Mss Eur F126/38, ff 122v-124

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/38, ff 122v-124
Title:
Letter No. 16 of 1867 from Lord Cranborne, India Office, London to His Excellency the Honorable the Governor in Council, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a copy of despatch No. 37 of 1867 regarding affairs in the Persian Gulf. The enclosure approves of Sayed Soulem [Salim II bin Thuwaini] as successor to his late father and commends Lewis Pelly on excercising wise discretion in not coupling his visit of recognition with a visit ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Feb 1867
Extent:

3 folios

96. Mss Eur F126/22, f 142

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/22, f 142
Title:
Letter No.585 of 1870 from Colonel Sir William Lockyer Merewether, The Commissioner in Sind, Commissioner's Office, Kurrachee [Karāchi] to Colonel Robert Phayre, Political Superintendent, Frontier Upper Sind
Scope & Content:
Letter informing the Colonel that he considered his letter No.1260 of 3 September (received 11 September) to be of an improper tone and style and disrespectful to Merewether as head of the province and that as has failed to take Merewether's recorded opinions as instructions and chosen to disrega...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Sep 1870
Extent:
1 folio

97. Mss Eur F126/38

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/38
Title:
Letter book of official letters, mainly between Lewis Pelly and the Political Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The correspondence contained in the letter book relates primarily to affairs in Muscat from 1866 to 1868 during which time the Sultan of Muscat, Thuwaini bin Said died, allegedly killed by his son Salim II bin Thuwaini who subsequently seized power in Muscat before being overthrown in 1868 by hi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1865-24 Apr 1869
Extent:

1 volume, 83 items (186 folios)