Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Captain Henry W Warner
Mss Eur F126/56, ff 13-14
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 17 Feb 1865. It was written in English. The original is part of the 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. .
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Letter instructing Captain Warner to hand over mail on arrival at Bushire to the Uncovenanted Assistant Resident (James Charles Edwards) and to remain there until 5 March 1865 when he should travel to Bahrain and communicate with Ajair [Al Uqayr] to see if any letters have arrived there from Pelly in the interior of Nejd [Najd], and then await Pelly's arrval at Bahrein before sending a craft to Ajair creek on 18 March 1865 to collect him.
The letter goes on to provide details of arrangements for caring for his horses, and to thank him for loaning him Lieutenant Edwin Dawes for his journey and for the instruments which will enable him to take observations and bearings en route to Riyadh.
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- 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.
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- Mss Eur F126/56, ff 13-14
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- 17 Feb 1865 (CE, Gregorian)
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- KoweitBaroda StateIranPersian GulfRajputanaRiyadhRussiaSindMuscatZanzibarAl-Hasa
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- Berenice, Steam Sloop, Chief OfficerAssistant to the Political Resident in the Persian GulfAmir Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Āl Sa'ūdSir Lewis Pelly, KnightWilliam Henry ColvillSir Henry Bartle Edward FrereSir Frederic John Goldsmid, KnightSir William Henry Rodes Green, KnightSir Robert Phayre, KnightThomas George Baring, 1st Earl of NorthbrookSir William Lockyer Merewether, KnightWilliam Gifford PalgraveSir Charles Umpherston Aitchison, KnightWahabi (Tribe)
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- Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Captain Henry W Warner
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