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Mss Eur F126/70

Record Id:

040-002311361

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002311283

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001524.0x000339

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100023034580.0x000002

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Mss Eur F126/70

Title:

Letter book of private letters from Lewis Pelly to various persons.

Scope & Content:

The letter book consists of correspondence primarily between Lewis Pelly, Agent to the Governor General in Rajputana [Rājasthān], and the individuals who reported to him including his assistants Henry Byam Abbott, Charles Allan Baylay and William Howell Beynon; the Political Agents for Jaipur, Mewar, Bhartpur, Naseerabad and Haraoti; Leslie Seymour Saunders the Commissioner at Ajmer; William Carnell, James Dawson Macdonald and John Dobrée Woolcombe the Commandants of the irregular forces in Rajputana; and Charles Umpherston Aitchison as Foreign Secretary to the Government of India.

The correspondence relates primarily to administrative affairs within Rajputana focusing on the settlement of boundary disputes and the ill-health and subsequent death of Shambhu Singh, Maharana of Mewar.

Other correspondents include William Wilson Hunter who was at the time travelling across India compiling his Imperial Gazetteer (published in 1881) and Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant-Duff, formerly under-secretary of state for India who was visiting the country.

There are also a number of letters between Pelly and the New Bank of Bombay regarding Pelly's finances, money transfers and accounts with various merchant companies.

Most of the correspondence in the volume has been entered on Lewis Pelly's behalf by other individuals, primarily Charlotte Beynon, wife of William Howell Beynon, assistant to Pelly, as he was suffering from eyesight problems that prevented him from writing and copying his own correspondence.

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Private Papers
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002311283
036-002311359
040-002311361

Is part of:

Mss Eur F126 : Papers of Sir Lewis Pelly
Mss Eur F126/69-77 : Rajputana [Rājasthān] Agency Papers

Mss Eur F126/70 : Letter book of private letters from Lewis Pelly to various persons.

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002311283[0008]/036-002311359[0002]/040-002311361

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume, 179 items (96 folios)

Digitised Content:

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000001524.0x000339

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1874

End Date:

1874

Date Range:

16 Jul 1874-22 Oct 1874

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

The volume has been foliated in the front top right hand corner of each folio with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.

Arrangement:

The majority of the entries in the volume are arranged chronologically, although a small number have been entered in out of sequence.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Assistant to the Governor-General's Agent, Rajputana, Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara, 1833-c 1940
Government of India, Foreign Secretary, 1843-1937
Maharana of Mewar, 0734-
Political Agent, Beawur, Late 19th century
Political Agent, Bikaner, Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Political Agent, Eastern Rajputana States, Late 19th century
Political Agent, Erinpura, Late 19th century
Political Agent, Haraoti, Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Political Agent, Haroli and Deoli, Late 19th century
Political Agent, Nasirabad, Late 19th century-Early 20th century
Resident, Jaipur, 1821-1947
Singh, Shambhu, Maharana of Mewar, 1847-1874

Subjects:

Boundaries