Drafts and copies of letters from Lewis Pelly to the Viceroy, Lord Canning, and the British Minister at Tehran, Charles Alison, about his journey through Persia and Afghanistan
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Drafts and copies of letters from Lewis Pelly to the Viceroy, Lord Canning, and the British Minister at Tehran, Charles Alison, about his journey through Persia and Afghanistan
- Date:
- 1860/1864
- Description:
- Abstract: Drafts and copies of the reports, despatches and letters that Lewis Pelly submitted to His Excellency Earl Canning, Viceroy of India and Charles Alison, British Minister at Tehran during his special duty in Afghanistan.These drafts include Pelly's daily despatches from his stay at Herat, which are numbered 1-16, and include the special reports he was asked to compile on subjects ranging from the situation with the Persian Army following their battle with the Turcoman's at Merv; the state of affairs in Bokhara [Bukhara]; the movements and intentions of the Russian Mission to Herat; and the commercial and political state of affairs in Herat. Also included are copies of correspondence between the Viceroy and Sirdar Sultan Ahmed Khan, Governor of Herat, in which the Sultan expresses his desire to establish more friendly relations with the British Government.The later correspondence dates from 1861 and relates to Pelly's salary for the special duty, the travelling expenses incurred by him, and recommendations for gifts for local rulers that assisted Pelly en-route.The final item includes copies of Pelly's daily journal entries, the full versions of which can be found at Mss Eur F126/30 and Mss Eur F126/31, along with an additional entry dated 10 September 1864 in which Pelly explains why there were no journal entries for his visit to Candahar [Kandahar] and his onward journey back to India, and provides details of them.Physical description: Foliation: The file has been foliated using a pencil number enclosed in a circle in the top right hand corner of the recto of each folio, some of the folios have been renumbered and those numbers no longer in use have been crossed through.There are also former foliation and pagination sequences both using an uncircled pencil number in the top right hand corner, the former foliation sequence is numbered 1-49 and covers folios 49-94; the former pagination sequence is numbered 147-189 and covers folios 120-141.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Governor of Herat
- Rights:
- رخصة حكومة مفتوحة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000001524.0x0003ac_ar
81055/vdc_100000001524.0x0003ac_en
Mss Eur F126/33
Mss Eur F126/33