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'Testimonials to work of Lewis Pelly' [‎108r] (3/48)

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The record is made up of 24 folios. It was created in 11 Feb 1857-26 Aug 1873. 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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No. 40 of 1857.
Revenue Department.
From
Brigadier-General JOHN JACOB, C .B
Acting Commissioner in Sind
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To
The Right Honorable LORD ELFH1NSTONE, GX. ..
Governor and President in Council, Bombay.
My Lord,
In reporting, for the information of your Lordship in Conneil, .ha, CapUn> Pelly, wno
has been appointed to my personal staff in Persia, was this day relieved from the dm.es ot
Assistant Commissioner in Sind hy Mr. Ellis, I should he doing great mjnst.ce to ( aptam
Pelly were I not speeially to bring to the notiee of your Lordslup in Conned, the verj gr< a
merit displayed hy him during the whole period of his Civil employ m tins prov.nee.
2 I have already speeially reported to yonr Lordship in Conneil the very valuable
services performed by Captain Pelly in the Jagheer Department; his sueeessful labors m wlneb
considering the amonnt of work, accuracy of performance, valuable resnlt, and the short
period in which it has been accomplished, appear to me to be unsurpassable.
3 During the whole period wherein I have acted as Commissioner in Sind, Captain
Pellv has not only conducted and brought to a satisfactory close the Provmcal Jag .eor
'■■V but has served as my Assistant in the General and Kevenne Department; am i is
Zy llj now io record and to bring to the notice of yonr Lordship in Council that his services
•ftie Departments have been of .he greatest possible aid to me in carrying en the onerous
duties of the high office for a time entrusted to my hands.
4 I be. leave respectfully to call the attention of your Lordship in Council t„ the
fact that Captain Pellv has throughout the past year performed, in the most admn a .h manne,,
I alltTwork iich might justly have been thought sufficient to occupy the whole time

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Volume of printed and handwritten testimonials covering the period 1857 to 1873. The cover of the volume has a number of annotations in Pelly's handwriting including recording that this is his own copy of his testimonials dated 13 August 1873 and querying where certain recognitions are.

Some of the printed testimonials are copies of the volume of handwritten testimonials also included in the file.

The volume has been arranged according to positions held:

Assistant Commissionership in Sind (ff. 107-109):

Jagheer Commission (f. 110) - there are no testimonials under this heading.

Teheran [Tehran] Mission (ff. 111-113):

Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (ff. 116-125):

Handwritten testimonies - Sir Bartle Frere's Special Mission to Zanzibar and Muscat 1872 to 1873 (ff. 126-130):

  • Letter No. 1271P from Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Secretary to the Government of India, Simla, to Colonel Lewis Pelly, 13 June 1873.
  • Letter from Granville (2nd Earl Granville, Foreign Secretary), Foreign Office, to Colonel Lewis Pelly, 9 July 1873.
  • Extract from a letter from Sir Bartle Frere to Earl Granville, 30 June 1873.
  • Letter No. 5289 of 1873 from Charles Gonne, Secretary to Government, Bombay to Colonel Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo, 26 August 1873.
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24 folios
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Binding: The volume was originally tied together with red and yellow thread, which has been removed for conservation purposes and placed at the back of the volume in a plastic sleeve. The plastic sleeve may cause a loss of sharpness to the digital image of the binding.

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