Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, most likely to the Political Department Bombay
Mss Eur F126/55, ff 1-12
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The record is made up of 12 folios. It was created in 1865-1866. 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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Pencil draft of a letter most likely to the Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay regarding Pelly's recent visit to the Wahabee Ameer [Wahhabi Amir] in his capital Riyath [Riyadh] and appending a sketch map of the route taken from Kowait [Kuwait].
The letter goes on to describe the sketch map and features shown on it including principal towns, characteristics of the countryside and the work he undertook in determining fixed points of longitude and latitude en route.
Also referred to in the letter is the work undertaken to collect specimens of the rocks and flora and the use of solar observation and the polar star to determine additional longitude and latitudes.
Folios two to twelve are blank.
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- 12 folios
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- 56 imagesRef: Mss Eur F126/55
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- English in Latin script
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- Letter
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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 F126/55, ff 1-12
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- 1865-1866 (CE, Gregorian)
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- KoweitBaroda StateIranPersian GulfRajputanaRiyadhRussiaSindMuscatZanzibarAl-Hasa
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- Government of Bombay, Chief SecretaryAmir 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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- Mss Eur F126/55, ff 1-12
- Title
- Draft letter from Lewis Pelly, most likely to the Political Department Bombay
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- front, front-i, 2r:12v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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