Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Koweit [Kuwait], to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
Mss Eur F126/55, ff 22-23
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in Jan 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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Draft letter to the Political Department, Bombay in continuation of his letter of 21 January 1865 (folios twenty to twenty-one). giving further information on the particulars of the dispute between Muscat and the Wahabees [Wahhabi] and confirming the information he has already provided in the previous letter.
Pelly also queries the instructions issued to him by Government which appear to disagree with the treaties signed by the Sultan of Muscat in 1798 and 1864 and informing the Government that peace has been restored following the Sultan of Muscat's decision to pay off the Wahabee's.
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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 22-23
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- Jan 1865 (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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Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Koweit [Kuwait], to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, Mss Eur F126/55, ff 22-23, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023366358.0x000005> [accessed 14 May 2024]
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- Mss Eur F126/55, ff 22-23
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- Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, at Koweit [Kuwait], to The Secretary to Government, Political Department, Bombay
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- 22r:23v
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