Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bombay to Earl Canning, Viceroy of India
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Letter regarding the travelling expenses incurred by Pelly from Tehran to Herat, and from there through Afghanistan to Beloochistan [Baluchistan] and Kurrachee [Karachi] which amounted to £265 for the period September to December 1860. The letter goes on to give breakdowns of how this money was...
Letter from Hugh Rees James, Commissioner at Peshawar to Major Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding Pelly's arrival at Herat and his letter to Sirdar Mohamed Ameer Khan [Muhammad Amir Khan] at Candahar [Kandahar], a copy of which had been communication to Government. The letter goes on to relay the Ameer's uneasiness at Pelly's desire to travel to Candahar via Cabul [Kabul] o...
Private letter from Lewis Pelly, Mustoong [Mastung], Beloochistan [Baluchistan] to Earl Canning, Viceroy of India
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Private letter reporting on his interesting but watchful journey from Herat to Khelat [Kalāt] and describing the relaxed manner in which he travelled that had enabled him to experience the real state of the country than if he had been travelling in a more formal or official manner. The letter ...
Letter No.9 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison
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Letter following on from report numbers three to seven already submitted by Lewis Pelly and providing further information on the surviving Persian Troops from their defeat to the Turcomans at Merv. The information regarding the Persian Troops, and also the present condition of the Persian Front...
Letter No.10 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison
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Letter reporting on an incident which had occured on Pelly's arrival which he had not felt necessary to report previously as it was a personal matter, but which certain individuals had since attempted to use as a way of prejudicing the Herat minister against Pelly. The incident in question occu...
Letter No.13 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison
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Neat copy of the letter submitting remarks on the Bokhara [Bukhara] Territory. The remarks include assertions by the son of Shah Rookh [Shah Rukh] over his father's title of Sahib-i-Ikhtyar and position of influence with the Ameer [Amir] of Bokhara and local intelligence that he had never held ...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Herat to The Earl Canning, Viceroy of India
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Neat copy of a letter to Thomas George Canning, Earl Canning, Viceroy of India in which he has enclosed a letter from Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan, Governor of Herat, for His Lordship's attention. The letter itself contains Pelly's remarks on 'the political condition and prospects of that portion ...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Herat to The Earl Canning, Viceroy of India
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Neat copy of a letter to Thomas George Canning, Earl Canning, Viceroy of India reporting on his efforts to ascertain 'the real effect which has been produced by the visit of the Russian Officers to Herat'. The letter reports on the rumoured political advances and lavish expenditure made by the...
Copies of entries from Lewis Pelly's journal of his Afghanistan trip
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Copies of the entries from Lewis Pelly's Afghanistan journal covering the period 31 October 1860 to 16 November 1860 from his arrival at Herat until his arrival at Candahar [Kandahar]. Full copies of Pelly's journal can be seen in other files within this series, particularly Mss Eur F126/30 whic...
Letter No.4 from Lewis Pelly, Herat to His Excellency Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran
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Letter reporting on Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan's concerns that Dost Mahomed Khan intends to take Mermenah [Maīmanah] and to invade Herat territory, that he receives secret information through one of his wives who is the daughter of Dost Mahomed Khan, and that he believes the Indian Government to b...