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1391. Mss Eur F126/37, ff 43-53

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Mss Eur F126/37, ff 43-53
Title:
Printed letter No.73 of 1864 from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, H.B.M's Political Resident Persian Gulf, Bushire to Charles Gonne, Acting Secretary to Government at Bombay
Scope & Content:
Report by Pelly of his travels from Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] to Cape Jashk [Jask], via Minow [Minab], to view the shorelines and local inhabitants along the route of the proposed extension of the telegraph. Pelly believed he was the first European to traverse this route and therefore his r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1864
Extent:
11 folios

1392. Mss Eur F126/37, ff 54-59

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/37, ff 54-59
Title:
Printed letter No.1294/344 of 1872 from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, H.B.M.'s Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to the Secretary of Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter encloses a translation and account of the Tenets of the Ibadhi Sect of 'Oman' taken from a manuscript Arabic work entitled 'The Keshf-ul-Ghummeh of the Sheikh Sirhân bin Mohammed-el-Alawi, a native of 'Oman'. The translation and notation was undertaken by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Aug 1872
Extent:
6 folios

1393. Mss Eur F126/37, ff 60-65

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/37, ff 60-65
Title:
Printed letter No.1294/344 of 1872 from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly,H.B.M.'s Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to the Secretary of Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter encloses is a translation and account of the Tenets of the Ibadhi Sect of 'Oman' taken from a manuscript Arabic work entitled 'The Keshf-ul-Ghummeh of the Sheikh Sirhân bin Mohammed-el-Alawi, a native of 'Oman'. The translation and notation was undertaken by Lieutenant-Colonel Edwar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Aug 1872
Extent:
6 folios

1394. Mss Eur F126/39, ff 61-62

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Mss Eur F126/39, ff 61-62
Title:
Copy of letter No. 10/7 of 1873 from Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on Special Duty,East Coast African Special Mission, at Bombay to His Excellency Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, HM's Special Envoy to Zanzibar and Muscat
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing an authenticated translated section of a letter from the Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] acknowledging his engagement against the importation of slaves. The letter also reports that the Sultan of Muscat Seyyid Torkee [Turki bin Said Al-Said] had issued a proclamation and fully ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1873
Extent:
2 folios

1395. Mss Eur F126/40, f 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/40, f 11
Title:
Letter No.347 from William Muir, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department Political, Simla to The Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding information supplied by Lewis Pelly on the practicality of the proposed extension of the Mekran line of Telegraph. The verso of the folio records that copies of the letter were made by Patrick Ryan, Assistant Secretary for the Secretary to Government and James Charles Edwards, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 folio

1396. Mss Eur F126/40, ff 1-4

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/40, ff 1-4
Title:
Copies of letter Numbers 277, 279 and 623 of 1864 from Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Disbrowe, Political Agent, Muscat to Charles Gonne, Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence regarding the situation in Muscat: No. 277 of 1864, 3 December 1864 regarding His Highness the Sultan of Muscat who is engaged in an expedition against Ges bin Azar [Azzan bin Qais] of Rostock [Rustaq] and reporting that the alleged cause of the expedition is in owing to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1864
Extent:
4 folios

1397. Mss Eur F126/40, ff 30-37

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/40, ff 30-37
Title:
Letter No. 111 of 1868 from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Kurrachee [Karachi] to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the recent affairs of Bahrain, Guttur [Qatar] and Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and their breaches of the peace at sea. The letter goes on to give details of a dispute between Persia and Muscat which had given rise to the Arab tribes and boats looking to plunder Persian ports and thei...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1868
Extent:
8 folios

1398. Mss Eur F126/40, ff 58-61

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/40, ff 58-61
Title:
Letter No.498P from Charles E R Girdlestone, Officiating Junior Under Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Fort William to Charles Gonne, Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a copy of a memorandum relating to the claims of the Turkish Government to the sovereignty of the island of Bahrein [Bahrain]. The memorandum details the history of the island of Bahrein from the sixteenth century onwards, including British recognition of the independence of Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1870
Extent:
4 folios

1399. Mss Eur F126/42, ff 24-25

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/42, ff 24-25
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Messrs Coyle and Company, 31 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the settlement of an account for the purchase of alcohol; the minister to the Sultan of Muscat being interested in becoming a customer and the possibility of developing some trade on a small scale in the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Sep 1868
Extent:
2 folios

1400. Mss Eur F126/43, f 183

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/43, f 183
Title:
Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, Political Resident Persian Gulf, Bushire to Messrs Coyle and Company, 31 Lower Ormond Quay, Dublin
Scope & Content:
Letter placing an order for the purchase of alcohol for consumption at the Residency, including Whisky, Brandy, Champagne, Wine and Ale. The letter also gives the price per ounce of each item and the quantities ordered.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1868
Extent:

1 folio