Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Sir Bartle Frere
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Letter regarding an article in the Edinburgh Review which contains a personal attack on Pelly and asking for Sir Bartle's thoughts on it. The letter also discusses recent observations on Central Asia and in particular the movements of Turkey, Russia and Persia; The good progress of Captains Geo...
Letter regarding the agent Abdool Rahman's statements before officers onboard the ship Penguin with regards to Muscat and his support of Syed Torkee [Turki bin Said]'s intentions to attack it. The letter goes on to discuss Pelly's journey to Shiraz; whether Way would prefer to go to Bushire or...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Shiraz to [Messrs Remington and Company]
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Letter regarding Pelly's ten shares in the Colaba Land Reclamation company, which is now the Elphinstone Land Reclamation Company and whether they have signed new articles of association on his behalf in relation to these shares
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Messrs Remington and Company
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Letter regarding the thirty six shares they have purchased on Pelly's behalf in the New Bank of Bombay, the money paid into the bank by Narayn Wussadeojee as a deposit for the new shares and enclosing a note for 4,000 rupees to cover the full cost of the shares. The letter also refers to enclo...
Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to an undisclosed recipient
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Letter regarding a prospectus which has been issued by the New Bank of Bombay and which lists shareholders eligible to purchase shares in the New Bank under the headings 'Europe, Persons resident up country, Residents in Bombay' and Pelly's objections that he has a right to buy shares as a share...
Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, Muscat, to Charles Alison
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Letter containing further reports on the 'squabbles' between the Moonshee's [Munshi's] and the Persian Foreign Office and of Pelly's ongoing difficulties with the Persian authorities and the Persian Foreign Agent in Tehran.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Alfred Cotton Way
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List thanking Way for his clear report regarding the Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] Chief (Zayid bin Khalifah) and discussing affairs in Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] including the Persian Government's appointment of the Naib ul Agalla as Governor, their desire for the British to protect the Gulf coast t...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Charles Alison
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Letter describing the maritime truce in the Gulf which Pelly arbitrates as Resident and explaining that the arab tribes of the littoral are bound by it and not Persia or Muscat. The letter details the Sultan of Muscat's desire to continue leasing Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas], that the Sultan wi...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Alfred Cotton Way
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Letter regarding the recent hot weather; the Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] affair and the murder of a Puttawalla (Persian messenger or courier). The letter also informs Way of the Bombay Government's request that Pelly visit the Persian Governor-General at Shiraz; their approval of Pelly's reco...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Charles Alison
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Letter regarding the increase in complaints that Pelly has to deal with which are being created by the opening up of trade throughout the Gulf and discussing a complaint from Mr Mackenzie (of Gray, Mackenzie & Co) regarding restrictions being placed at Shiraz on the purchase of goods for shi...