Letter from Lewis Pelly, Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] to John Dobrée Woollcombe
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Letter regarding the invitation to the race ball and his error in assuming the invitation to attend had come from officers as opposed to the residents of Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād].
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to James Dawson Macdonald
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Letter regarding Macdonald considering retiring; the approval of a grant from the Government towards the construction of Macdonald's church and Pelly's hopes of seeing him again before he retires.
Letter from the Race Ball Committee, Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād] to Lewis Pelly
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Note to Pelly apologising for the unavoidable delay in sending Pelly's invitation to the ball as they were not aware of his camps movements or where to send the invitiation. Enclosed are the earlier invitation and correspondence on the matter: Invitation, dated 7 September 1874, from the race b...
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India, Calcutta to Colonel Lewis Pelly, care of the Political Agent, Muscat
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Letter thanking Pelly for his letters of 17 January 1873 and 13 March 1873 regarding the negotiations in Zanzibar and expressing his hopes that if Pelly does go to Rajpootana [Rājasthān] they will be able to meet again sooner than expected.
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Military Secretary to the Viceroy, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding some papers, that were being sent separately, which the Viceroy wished Pelly to read before they met the following day. The papers relate to the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Laing Mackeson in allowing his assistant surgeon to live with him in a state of drunkenness a...
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Military Secretary to the Viceroy, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding the Viceroy's appointment of Percy William Smith to be the officiating adjutant of the Mhairwarra [Merwāra] battalion and checking whether Pelly still had any of the papers relating to Meywar [Mewār]
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Colonel John Cheape Brooke's recommendation that Captain Charles William Burton be confirmed to the post of assistant, and Government's concerns owing to his previous 'disparaging manner' and also a recent censure by Government which has lead Lord Northbrook (Viceroy of India) t...
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Foreign Department, Government of India to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Officiating Agent to the Governor General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter, dated 30 June 1873, regarding a statement which had appeared in a local newspaper that European and Native officers in the Rajputana [Rājasthān] Agency were in the habit of using local Chief's vehicles and that although the statement had proved unfounded requesting that Pelly reiterate t...