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Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly [86r] (1/4)
The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 2 Sep 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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Letter regarding the proposed school of arts in Ajmere [Ajmer] and explaining that although Lord Northbrook is in favour of increasing such schools he cannot sanction the expenditure and informing Pelly that a letter to Leslie Saunders will be sent stating this too.
The letter goes on to discuss with a matter with Doctor Frederick William Alexander De Fabeck (Surgeon Major with the Deoli Irregular Force) and enclosing a confidential memo that Lord Northbrook had sent to Pelly's predecessor (Colonel John Cheape Brooke) on the matter (memo no longer enclosed).
An addendum to the letter assures Pelly that decisions regarding his Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. would not be taken by Lord Northbrook without his prior consultation.
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- Mss Eur F126/71, ff 86-87
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- Letter from Evelyn Baring, Private Secretary's Office, Government House, Simla to Colonel Lewis Pelly
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- 86r:87v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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