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...
Letter regarding Pelly's recent three month cruise in the Gulf to settle the Arab coast troubles and the settling of Muscat affairs. The letter also mentions Pelly's money in the Bank of Bombay his hopes (which he does not expect to be fulfilled) that he will be reimbursed.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to James Ferguson, 20 Longhorn Place, London
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Brief letter regarding a ground plan, elevations and coloured sketch of the Achamænican tomb which Pelly discovered in Autumn 1844 and which were being sent to Feguson in the outgoing mail.