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21. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 170-171

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 170-171
Title:
Letter from Philip Sandys Melvill, Baroda to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding an application with annexes from Gujariand Vithal who is requesting a Jaghir to be granted by the Baroda State and a larger grant of land than has been given to him following his service to the British Government. The letter also reports on the rewards that have already been gr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Jun 1876
Extent:
2 folios

22. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 235-236

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 235-236
Title:
Letter from Edith, Countess of Lytton, Simla to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter thanking Pelly for the photographs of himself and his wife, Lady Amy Henrietta (née Lowder) and congratulating them on their recent wedding. The letter also informs Pelly of her own recent illness.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Aug 1878
Extent:

2 folios

23. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 237-238

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 237-238
Title:
Letter from Joseph West Ridgeway, India to Colonel Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the Aboo [Abu] school; Lord Northbrook's appointment; the Cabul [Kabul] survey; the Chief Commissionership of Assam; and a recent event at Agra.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Aug 1878
Extent:

2 folios

24. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 255-256

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 255-256
Title:
Letter from N [Lord Northbrook?] to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding a forthcoming event which Ellward is now unable to attend but Horace G Walpole is able to come to and asking Pelly to be there at 7.30. A postscript marked private and confidential tells Pelly to read an article in the following day's copy of Times which has been signed 'N'.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878?
Extent:

2 folios

25. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 82-83

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 82-83
Title:
Letter from Adelbert Cecil Talbot, Foreign Office, Calcutta to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter thanking Pelly for his kindness in recommending him for the position at the Foreign Office working alongside Charles Umpherston Aitchison. The letter goes on to give news from Rajpootana [Rājasthān] including Frederick Augustus Hugh Elliott who had commenced his leave by breaking his leg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Jan 1875
Extent:
2 folios

26. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 88-89

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 88-89
Title:
Letter from Edwin Arnold, Daily Telegraph, Fleet Street, London to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter recommending that Pelly keep himself well informed of goings on in order to command his own future and returning some extracts which Pelly had sent him.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1875
Extent:
2 folios

27. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 160-161

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 160-161
Title:
Incomplete letter from William Lockyer Merewether, Ware Priory to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding reports in the newspapers that Punjab and Sind are to be united and that Pelly is to be the Governor. The letter goes on to state that he hopes Pelly is happy back in India and that he will let him know how his health is; and expresses the hope that this new position would mean ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Apr 1876
Extent:
4 folios

28. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 172-179

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 172-179
Title:
Letter from Sir Philip Rose, Rayners, Penn, Buckinghamshire to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Sir Philip having learned from the Prime Minister (Benjamin Disraeli) that Lord Lytton (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton) had secured Pelly's services and discussing recent accounts of Lord Lytton 's health. The letter gives news of Sir Philip's daughter Louisa Frances an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Aug 1876
Extent:
8 folios

29. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 180-184

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 180-184
Title:
Letter from George Edwin Seward, Dorcton House, Madras to Sir Lewis Pelly, India
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Pelly's recent illness; rumours that he may be considering a position on the Council of India; his possible return to India with Lord Lytton and general political musings. The letter also encloses a press cutting (folio 84) from an Indian newspaper (possibly the Bombay Times) w...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Dec 1876
Extent:
5 folios

30. Mss Eur F126/7, ff 207-209

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/7, ff 207-209
Title:
Letter from William Howell Beynon, Frenches, Redhill, Surrey to Sir Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Beynon's intention of travelling to India via ship to aid his recovering health and giving news from Jeypoor [Jaipur] including of Alfred Comyn Lyall's move to Simla to take up an appointment there.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Oct 1877
Extent:
3 folios