Abstract of a khureeta [kharīṭa] from Khowas Parbuhseye, concubine of the late Maharajah Sirdar Sing [Sardar Singh] of Bikaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel John Cheape Brooke
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Letter discussing the inheritance her son had received from his late father Maharajah Sardar Singh and a decision to remove some of the lands and power from him.
Letter from Philip Durham Henderson, Government of India, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Officiating Agent to the Governor General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter informing Pelly that the Rajpootana [Rājasthān] Chief's will be permitted to leave Agra as soon as the Durbar is over and that he should hint to them that the earlier they depart the better.
Letter from Philip Durham Henderson, Government of India, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Officiating Agent to the Governor General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter, dated 5 November 1873, informing Pelly that one of his letters was received unsigned and requesting that he remedy this. The letter also contains a pencil note by Pelly on the verso of folio 121, dated 9 November, requesting a second draft of the letter for him to sign.
Letter from Captain Charles William Burton, Bickaneer [Bīkāner] to Colonel John Cheape Brooke
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Letter, dated 18 June 1873, informing Colonel Brooke that the Fakeer Ameer Ally Sow [Amir Ali Sow] had died. The reverse of folio five contains a note from Lewis Pelly to Henry Byam Abbott, dated 21 July 1873, asking about letters received from Government concerning the Fakeer. Folios 6-7 ar...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, , Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Captain Charles Shuttleworth, Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād]
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Letter regarding the Oilman's stores and liquor and whether there is sufficient at Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] should Pelly run short before his stores arrive.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Camp Agra to Leslie Saunders, Commissioner at Ajmere [Ajmer]
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Letter regarding his understanding that Mrs Edith Saunders had not wished to come to Agra as Mrs Agnes Robertson would not be there, but that should she wish to come he would arrange to put them up at the Camp to the best of his ability.
Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, Government of India to Colonel Craven Hildesley Dickens
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Draft letter in pencil regarding the possibility of acquiring the services of Mr Gordon for the Mayo College and Pelly's work in putting affairs in hand there.
Copy of a letter from Lewis Pelly, Jeypore [Jaipur] to Captain Henry Byam Abbott
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Letter regarding the available appointment in Ulwa [Alwar] and Abbott's interest in it, and discussing the system of grading for officers in the political department.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to James Dawson Macdonald
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Letter regarding a Coat of Arms which Macdonald's men, the Deolee [Deoli] Irregular Force, have given to Pelly and apologising for not acknowledging the gift sooner as he had been away in England.