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Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison [37r] (4/6)
The record is made up of 4 folios. It was created in 26 Aug 1874. 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 notes on the Ajmere [Ajmer] police and the small cause courts at Ajmere and Pelly's need on several occasions to express his 'emphatic' official displeasure with Leslie Saunders as well as describing his issues and reasons for disliking the man and his work.
The letter goes on to discuss the Jagheer question and government having authorised a measurement of areas and the matte of Saunders having assembled of a committee and printed proceedings without reference to or the knowledge of the chief commissioner.
The letter also addresses Saunders requesting information in secret on the workings of Pelly's office during his absence and his introduction of a system of précis on all questions filed.
The letter has been crossed through and is incomplete.
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- Mss Eur F126/70, ff 35v-38
- Title
- Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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- 36r:37v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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