Extracts from Letters acknowledging Pelly's Services to Government which he used as Letters of Testimonial

Content

The file consists of individual extracts from letters, telegrams and reports in which Lewis Pelly's work and services to Government have been praised or highly thought of and which he brought together to be used as testimonials to show the quality of his work for the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. .

Also enclosed with the file are two booklets of testimonials, one handwritten and one printed which include copies of some of the loose testimonials within the file.

Extent and format

1 file, 39 items (130 folios)

It is grouped into

Letter No. 3468 of 1862 from W Wedderburn, Acting Secretary to Government, Bombay to Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, Acting Political Resident, Bushire

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Letter No. 151P from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Fort William [Calcutta] to William Wedderburn, Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay

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Letter No. 3243 of 1870 from William Wedderburn, Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Lewis Pelly, The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf

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Letter No. 1296A from William Wedderburn, Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay, to Lewis Pelly, The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf

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Letter No. 2901 from Charles Gonne, Acting Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to Lewis Pelly, The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf

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Letter No. 1228 from Walter Scott Seton Karr, Secretary to the Government of India, Simla to Charles Gonne, Secretary to the Government of Bombay

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Letter No. 41 of 1869 from Lewis Pelly, Political Resident, Persian Gulf to an undisclosed recipient

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Letter No. 3011 from Charles Gonne, Acting Chief Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay Castle to Lewis Pelly, The Political Resident, Persian Gulf

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Telegram from The Viceroy, Calcutta to Colonel Pelly, Augaum [Henjam], Persian Gulf

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Telegram from The Foreign Secretary, Calcutta to Colonel Pelly, Augaum [Henjam]

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Letter No. 2228 of 1863 from Henry Lacon Anderson, Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay to Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, Acting Political Resident Persian Gulf, Bushire

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Letter No. 1062 from the Officiating Under Secretary to the Government of India to Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly

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Letter No. 1066A from the Officiating Under Secretary to the Government of India to Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly

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Service Message from the Foreign Secretary, Simlah [Simla] to Colonel Pelly, Shiraz

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Telegram from the Foreign Secretary, Simlah [Simla] to Colonel Pelly

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Extract of letter No. 94 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India to Colonel Lewis Pelly

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Telegram from the Foreign Secretary to Colonel Pelly

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Letter No.16, Political from Lord Cranborne, India Office to The Governor in Council, Bombay

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Excerpts of letter No.821, Political from the Secretary to the Government of Bombay

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Excerpts of despatch No.31 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India

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Telegram from Sir Bartle Frere, Bombay to Colonel Pelly, Bushire

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Telegram from Sir Bartle Frere to Colonel Pelly, Bushire

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Extract of letter No. 905 from the Acting Secretary to Government of Bombay

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Extract of letter No. 347 from the Secretary to the Government of India

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Extract of despatch No. 31 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India

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Resolution No. 2069 from the Government of Bombay

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Extract of letter No. 3986 from the Acting Secretary to Government of Bombay

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Extract of letter No. 72 from the Secretary to the Government in India

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Extract of letter No. 31 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India

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Extract of letter No. 1364 from The Secretary to the Government of Bombay

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Extract of letter No. 41 from The Officiating Secretary to Government of Bombay

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Extract of despatch No. 14 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India

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Extract of letter No. 859 from The Officiating Secretary to Government of Bombay

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Extract of letter No. 1572 from The Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay

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Extract of letter No. 2228 from The Chief Secretary to the Government of Bombay

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Extract of despatch No. 5 of 1864 from Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India

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Letter from Lord John Russell, Foreign Office to Captain Pelly

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Letters of acknowledgment of services rendered to Government

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'Testimonials to work of Lewis Pelly'

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Ref: Mss Eur F126/13, ff 107-130

Physical characteristics

Foliation: The file has been foliated in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio with a pencil number enclosed in a circle.

Some of the loose folios have original foliation, consisting of a larger pencil number on the left hand side of the front of the folio, to indicate the order in which the testimonials were arranged. This foliation sequence is incomplete and does not cover all the loose folios in the file.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Mss Eur F126/13

History of this record

Date(s)

8 Aug 1856-26 Aug 1873 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Testimonials

People & organisations

Secretary of State for India, United KingdomGovernment of Bombay, Chief Secretary

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