Letter from Joseph West Ridgeway to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding an accident that Pelly had, his thoughts on Aboo [Ābu], the business with Frederick Laing Mackeson and who might get his appointment, and giving news of friends and colleagues including John Underwood Champain and Albert James Leppoc Cappel who are off to Vienna to attend a tele...
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Simla to Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding a Demi-Official letter that had been sent to him and giving news of his daughters and friends and informing Pelly that he had been dragged into playing Badminton.
Letter from Colonel William Earle, Agra to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding a proposal by General John Dobrée Woollcombe for a siege train at Nusseerabad [Nasīrābād], and giving the Viceroy's opinion that the likelihood of siege guns being required in Rajpootana [Rājasthān] was scarce and that should such a situation occur they could be acquired from el...
Letter from William Lee Warner, Agra to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter asking Pelly to inform Lieutenant Charles Edward Yate that the position for which he had applied had not yet been created but that he would be put forward for it should it be created and asking Pelly to remind him of the appropriate protocol for applying for such positions.
Letter from Colonel William Earle to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter informing Pelly that he had not been mentioned in the Bhurtpore [Bharatpur] programme as it had been assumed he would be accompanying the Viceroy throughout the day and informing him of someone else who had been omitted and requesting that Captain Arthur William Roberts be informed of the...
Letter from William Lee Warner, Parell to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter informing Pelly that there are no official Government records against Reverend Joseph Higgins and referring to reports on the Archdeacon's reactions to him and matters being referred to Government on the bishop's return.
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Letter regarding correspondence between Colonel John Cheape Brooke and the Government of India regarding the appointment of Mr Keane as manager of certain wards estates in Rajputana [Rājasthān], his subsequent removal from that post and the censure of Captain Herbert Mills Repton over the matter...
Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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Brief letter informing Pelly that Lord Northbrook (Viceroy of India) had approved James Charles Edwards' appointment at Bushire and asking if he should gazetted as Second Assistant.
Letter from Philip Durham Henderson, Foreign Department, Government of India, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Officiating Agent to the Governor General for Rajpootana [Rājasthān]
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Letter enclosing original Demi-Official correspondence with Colonel John Cheape Brooke regarding Ghulam Ahmed Khan (also known as Alladiya Khan) of Tonk, along with the translated substance of a petition and informing Pelly that Charles Umpherston Aitchison required him to ask Captain James Cava...