Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Alfred Cotton Way
Mss Eur F126/43, ff 99v-100
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 6 Jun 1868. 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 regarding the recent hot weather; the Bunder Abbass [Bandar Abbas] affair and the murder of a Puttawalla (Persian messenger or courier).
The letter also informs Way of the Bombay Government's request that Pelly visit the Persian Governor-General at Shiraz; their approval of Pelly's recommendation to blockade the port at Aboothabee [Abu Dhabi] and asking Way to inform the native agent Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government. at Shargah [Sharjah] to remain there and attempt to intercept slavers vessels.
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- 2 folios
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- English in Latin script
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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 F126/43, ff 99v-100
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- 6 Jun 1868 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Mss Eur F126/43, ff 99v-100
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- Letter from Lewis Pelly, Bushire to Alfred Cotton Way
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- 99v:100r
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