Draft letter from Lewis Pelly to Messrs Remington and Company
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Draft of a letter regarding the settling of accounts and the criminal actions of the bank. This letter is incomplete and has been crossed through. A letter to Messrs Remington on the recto of folio 182 appears to be a later complete version of this letter.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, Persian Gulf to Messrs Smith, Elder and Company
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Brief letter requesting that a wooden box, which had been in their care since november 1865, be forwarded to Messrs Remington & Co, Elphinstone Circle, Bombay.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to His Excellency Charles Alison Esquire
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Letter regarding the mischief that has been caused by the Persian Foreign Office Munshee [Munshi]; issues surrounding ownership of houses and property in Bushire; a new steam yachy that Government has sent to Bushire; and other minor Bushire affairs.
Letter from Lewis Pelly to Sir Seymour Fitzgerald, Governor of Bombay
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Letter regarding Pelly's intentions to meet the Prince Governor General of Shiraz whom he considers to be about the best administrator and military leader in Persia and his hope that this meeting will resolve many of the disputes in the Persian littoral of the Gulf. The letter goes on to give P...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, on board May Frere, to Charles Alison
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Letter regarding a demand by the Persian Foreign Office that any individual who wishes to work as a servant at the Residency must have a certificate of good character signed by a competent authority and requesting that the Minister provide examples of instances where Residency servants have not ...