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Mss Eur F126/43, ff 73-76
- Record Id:
- 041-002560011
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002311283
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100022533226.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100024195009.0x000071
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F126/43, ff 73-76
- Title:
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Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Messrs Remington and Company
- Scope & Content:
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Letter regarding the thirty six shares they have purchased on Pelly's behalf in the New Bank of Bombay, the money paid into the bank by Narayn Wussadeojee as a deposit for the new shares and enclosing a note for 4,000 rupees to cover the full cost of the shares.
The letter also refers to enclosed notes of payment and cheques from the Back Bay and Colaba Island Railway Company, Messrs Smith, Elder & Co, and the Bombay Bank for sums of money to be paid into his account in the New Bank of Bombay.
The letter goes on to detail the remaining money to be paid for the thirty six shares, encloses the application completed and signed for their purchase. and enquires why there is no catagory for individuals such as himself who are shareholders and in the employ of the Indian Civil Service but who are not residents in India or 'in Europe' at that time.
The letter also informs the company he is awaiting confirmation that the ten shares in the Elphinstone Land Reclamation Company have been transferred and that the dividend in his shares of the British Victoria Land Company have been realized.
A postscript to the letter includes a full memorandum of his accounts, notes on monies transmitted to them by other individuals and a copy of Pellys note to Messrs Smith, Elder & Co, dated 4 September 1867 requesting that they pay Messrs Remington 100 pounds.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002311283
036-002311322
040-002311330
041-002560011 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F126 : Papers of Sir Lewis Pelly
Mss Eur F126/36-47 : Correspondence and Papers relating to Lewis Pelly's role as Political Resident in the Persian Gulf
Mss Eur F126/43 : Letter book of copy letters from Pelly to colleagues in Bombay and the Gulf.
Mss Eur F126/43, ff 73-76 : Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Messrs Remington and Company - Hierarchy:
- 032-002311283[0004]/036-002311322[0008]/040-002311330[0113]/041-002560011
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F126
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
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2 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000001524.0x0003b6
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1867
- End Date:
- 1867
- Date Range:
- 4 Sep 1867
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Several paragraphs of this letter have been crossed through in both pencil and pen and alterations to sentances have been written above them in pencil.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
