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421. Mss Eur F126/37, ff 43-53

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Mss Eur F126/37, ff 43-53
Title:
Printed letter No.73 of 1864 from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, H.B.M's Political Resident Persian Gulf, Bushire to Charles Gonne, Acting Secretary to Government at Bombay
Scope & Content:
Report by Pelly of his travels from Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] to Cape Jashk [Jask], via Minow [Minab], to view the shorelines and local inhabitants along the route of the proposed extension of the telegraph. Pelly believed he was the first European to traverse this route and therefore his r...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1864
Extent:
11 folios

422. Mss Eur F126/37, ff 54-59

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Mss Eur F126/37, ff 54-59
Title:
Printed letter No.1294/344 of 1872 from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, H.B.M.'s Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to the Secretary of Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter encloses a translation and account of the Tenets of the Ibadhi Sect of 'Oman' taken from a manuscript Arabic work entitled 'The Keshf-ul-Ghummeh of the Sheikh Sirhân bin Mohammed-el-Alawi, a native of 'Oman'. The translation and notation was undertaken by Lieutenant-Colonel Edward C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Aug 1872
Extent:
6 folios

423. Mss Eur F126/37, ff 60-65

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Mss Eur F126/37, ff 60-65
Title:
Printed letter No.1294/344 of 1872 from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly,H.B.M.'s Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire to the Secretary of Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
The letter encloses is a translation and account of the Tenets of the Ibadhi Sect of 'Oman' taken from a manuscript Arabic work entitled 'The Keshf-ul-Ghummeh of the Sheikh Sirhân bin Mohammed-el-Alawi, a native of 'Oman'. The translation and notation was undertaken by Lieutenant-Colonel Edwar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
09 Aug 1872
Extent:
6 folios

424. Mss Eur F126/38, ff 61v-62

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Mss Eur F126/38, ff 61v-62
Title:
Letter No. 3102 of 1865 from Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to Lewis Pelly, Political Resident Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a copy of letter No. 196 of 1865 to the Government of India giving the recommendations which Pelly made regarding the situation in Omman [Oman]: Letter No. 196 of 1865 from Charles Gonne to the Secretary for Government of India in the Foreign Department, Fort William 19 December...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Dec 1865
Extent:
2 folios

425. Mss Eur F126/38, ff 75-76

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Mss Eur F126/38, ff 75-76
Title:
Letter No. 2891 of 1865 from Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a copy of letter No. 940 from the Government of India containing instructions with regards to Maskat [Muscat] and a telegram from Sir Charles Wood, the Secretary of State for India. The letter from the Government confirms the possibility of supplying arms and munitions for the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1865
Extent:

2 folios

426. Mss Eur F126/38, ff 76v-77

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Mss Eur F126/38, ff 76v-77
Title:
Letter No. 1011 from Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing a copy of letter No. 314 which is to be forwarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Pelly: Letter No. 314 from William Muir, Secretary to the Government of India, Fort William to the Secretary to the Government of Bombay, 24 March 1866 regarding Lewis Pelly's orders to travel to Maskat [Mus...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1866
Extent:

2 folios

427. Mss Eur F126/38, ff 77v-79

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Mss Eur F126/38, ff 77v-79
Title:
Letter No. 34 of 1866 from Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Her British Majesty's Political Agent, Persian Gulf, Bushire to Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the placing of gun-boats at the disposal of the Resident for the protection of the telegraph stations; the detachment of 30 marines protecting the telegraph station at Masendum [Musandam] which had been quartered on a boat so as to maintain the agreement regarding no troops bein...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1866
Extent:

2 folios

428. Mss Eur F126/38, ff 124v-126

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Mss Eur F126/38, ff 124v-126
Title:
Letter from Lewis Pelly, On board Sind off Lingah [Bander-e-Lengeh], Persian Gulf, to Gerald Fitzgerald
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding Pelly's visit to the telegraph stations, awaiting the arrival of Mr [William] Mackinnon who is touring the Gulf on behalf of the British India Steam Navigation Company; the treaties signed with Bahrain, Guttur [Qatar] and Abuthabee [Abu Dhabi] and of their being no sign of them ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Dec 1868
Extent:

3 folios

429. Mss Eur F126/39, ff 61-62

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Mss Eur F126/39, ff 61-62
Title:
Copy of letter No. 10/7 of 1873 from Colonel Lewis Pelly, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, on Special Duty,East Coast African Special Mission, at Bombay to His Excellency Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere, HM's Special Envoy to Zanzibar and Muscat
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing an authenticated translated section of a letter from the Chief of Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] acknowledging his engagement against the importation of slaves. The letter also reports that the Sultan of Muscat Seyyid Torkee [Turki bin Said Al-Said] had issued a proclamation and fully ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1873
Extent:
2 folios

430. Mss Eur F126/40, f 11

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/40, f 11
Title:
Letter No.347 from William Muir, Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department Political, Simla to The Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding information supplied by Lewis Pelly on the practicality of the proposed extension of the Mekran line of Telegraph. The verso of the folio records that copies of the letter were made by Patrick Ryan, Assistant Secretary for the Secretary to Government and James Charles Edwards, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1865
Extent:
1 folio