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551. Mss Eur F126/4, ff 67-68

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/4, ff 67-68
Title:
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Hotel Metropolw, Schwalbach, Germany to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding additional honours that have been confirmed on Pelly, and congratulating him on them as well as discussing Pelly's recent work (in Aghanistan) and regarding Aitchison's opinion that the policy being pursued there is a bad one. The letter goes on to discuss attempts at meeting u...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Aug 1877
Extent:
2 folios

552. Mss Eur F126/4, ff 71-72

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/4, ff 71-72
Title:
Letter from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, 2 Manor Place, North, Edinburgh to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the arrival in Edinburgh; the journey from Rotterdam; and their intention of going off on travels to visit friends. The letter also informs Pelly that he expects to be in London on 10 September and will be staying in the Charing Cross Hotel and gives dining arrangements for that...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Aug 1877
Extent:
2 folios

553. Mss Eur F126/5, ff 3-6

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/5, ff 3-6
Title:
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter enclosing the 'Afghan Despatch' for Pelly's confidential information (no longer enclosed) and informing him that things have remained in a status quo since Pelly left, expressing his hopes that if things stay the same for a few more months their policy will be vindicated, and reporting th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jun 1877
Extent:
4 folios

554. Mss Eur F126/5, ff 9-10

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/5, ff 9-10
Title:
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Brief letter regarding his offence at Lord Salisbury (Robert Gascoyne-Cecil)'s 'Cabul utterances' particularly in regard to all the hard work that Pelly and Lord Lytton (Robert Bulwer-Lytton) among others had undertaken and the lack of acknowledgement or gratitude from Lord Salisbury in his stat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1877
Extent:
2 folios

555. Mss Eur F126/5, ff 11-14

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F126/5, ff 11-14
Title:
Letter from Owen Tudor Burne, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Lewis Pelly
Scope & Content:
Letter regarding the Ameer [Amir] of Cabul [Kabul], Shere Ali [Sher Ali Khan], who is refusing to give in or back down and the likelihood that a re-establishment of relations with him would now be impossible. The letter goes on to give Burne's thoughts on a united and strong Afghanistan under ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1877
Extent:
4 folios

556. 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

557. 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

558. 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

559. 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

560. 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