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 20-21
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 21 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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Letter in response to No. 3933 of 1864 (folio nineteen) reporting on the differences, as Pelly sees them, between the Sultan of Muskat [Muscat] (Thuwaini bin Said) and the Sultan of the Wahabees [Wahhabi] (Faisal ibn Turki Al-Sa'ud].
The letter also outlines what Pelly believes to be the full story behind the dispute between the two peoples and the potential impact he believes the various outcomes and actions could have on the whole of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. region.
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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 20-21
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- 21 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 20-21, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023366358.0x000006> [accessed 29 March 2024]
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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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- 20r:21v
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