Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
Mss Eur F126/70, ff 9v-10
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The record is made up of 2 folios. It was created in 29 Jul 1874. 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 vacant Governorship of Mayo College and recommending William Muir Sr for the position but also suggesting Major Charles Bean Euan Smith and Oliver Beauchamp Coventry St. John, who was ultimately appointed to the post, as well as proposing that the position should be an officiating appointment initially in case the college failed.
The letter also discusses the Central India Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. passing on officers to Rajpootana [Rājasthān] and Pelly's opinion that the Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. is treating the area as a 'penal settlement'.
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- Mss Eur F126/70, ff 9v-10
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- 29 Jul 1874 (CE, Gregorian)
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- Letter from Lewis Pelly, Mount Aboo [Ābu] to Charles Umpherston Aitchison
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- 9v:10v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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