Enclosures of letter to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India, No.17, dated 22 January 1875: Nos. 3 to 26 of Abstract of Contents, from the Officiating Under-Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Fort William [‎145v] (90/90)

Enclosure No. 25.
Telegram, No. 206P., dated 22iid January 1875.
From—Foreign Secretary, Calcutta,
To— Sir Lewis Felly , Baroda.
Y oijr telegram of twelfth. You are authorized during present crisis to
communicate with Government in manner proposed.
Enclosure No. 26.
No. 207P., dated Fort William, 22nd January 1875.
From—C. U. Aitchison , Esq., C.S.I., Secy, to the Govt, of India, Foreign Dept.,
To— C. Gonne , Esq., Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. , Political Dept.
I n reply to your letters Nos. 10A. and 276, dated, respectively, the 10th and
15th instant, I am directed by His Excellency the Viceroy and Governor-General
in Council to explain that the non-transmission to the Bombay Government
of a duplicate of Sir Lewis Felly's report on the recent attempt to poison
Colonel Phayre is due to the fact that Sir Lewis Pelly wrote the report in
question under considerable difficulties. The necessity for absolute secrecy
and the urgency of the communication made the transmission of a copy imprac
ticable. The greater part of the report was written by Sir Lewis Pelly with
his own hand. His Excellency in Council is confident that the Government
of Bombay will acknowledge the sufficiency of this explanation.
2. Sir Lewis Pelly has been authorized by telegraph to communicate with
Government during the present crisis in manner which may seem to him most
desirable, having reference to the urgency and secrecy of the matter involved.