Letter from Lewis Pelly, Muskat to Arnold Burrows Kemball
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Letter regarding a French colleague of Kemball's who passed through Bushire; some horses that Kemball is having sent to Bombay; and Pelly's difficulties with the Muskat and Wahabee [Wahhabi] dispute.
Letter regarding some Buglas which Warner had towed and which had been anchored in an unsafe location and now required moving to the Bugla anchorage near the fort.
Brief note regarding doubts which have arisen over a tribes involvement in injuries on British subjects and recommending not destroying their fort because of these doubts.
Letter requesting a telegram regarding how his reply to the Governor-General was received and requesting information on the assistants and gun-boats being sent to the Gulf. The letter also discusses horses for the Rajah; Bahrain affairs regarding the sale of a Buglah and Colonel Disbrowe's lett...
Letter regarding the lack of government relations with Muskat and the expectation that Colonel Dibsrowe will return there and therefore that relations will resume.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Sir Roderick Murchison
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Letter regarding speciments that have been collected from the Persian shore of the Gulf and are being sent to him and a list of rocks collected from Cape Mussundom [Musandam]. The letter also discusses the report on Pelly's travels to the Wahabee [Wahhabi] capital and his discoveries about Pal...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Austin Layard
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Letter enclosing further information on the results of Pelly's enquiries into the statements made by William Gifford Palgrave. The letter also gives an update on the cotton crisis and regarding the importance of the progress of Russia in Central Asia. The letter concludes by informing Layard t...
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire, to Captain Arthur William Stiffe
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Letter regarding Captain Robinson's assistance in attempting to get gun-boats and coal to the Gulf and reporting his hopes that mail steamers will soon be able to return to Muskat. The letter goes on to report on progress in building a telegraph house and expressing Pelly's regrets that it was ...
Letter regarding Russian movements at Bokhara [Bukhara]; correspondence relating to Muskat [Muscat] affairs and the printing of Pelly's Afghanistan journal.
Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bassidore to an undisclosed recipient
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Letter instructing the recipient to retain the detachment of sepoys at Bushire and informing him that Pelly's Derzee is en-route to Bushire to collect warm clothes and other essential items and send them by steamer to Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas]. The letter also requests that if Captain Oliver ...