Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Lewis Pelly, HBM's Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to Captain Henry W Warner
Date:
1865/1865
Description:
Abstract: Letter instructing Captain Warner to hand over mail on arrival at Bushire to the Uncovenanted Assistant Resident (James Charles Edwards) and to remain there until 5 March 1865 when he should travel to Bahrain and communicate with Ajair [Al Uqayr] to see if any letters have arrived there from Pelly in the interior of Nejd [Najd], and then await Pelly's arrval at Bahrein before sending a craft to Ajair creek on 18 March 1865 to collect him.The letter goes on to provide details of arrangements for caring for his horses, and to thank him for loaning him Lieutenant Edwin Dawes for his journey and for the instruments which will enable him to take observations and bearings en route to Riyadh.Physical description: 2 folios