BEGUM OF BHOPAL (1 0f 4 )

Two 1879 Letters signed by Lord Lytton (Viceroy 1876-1880) addressed to Her Highness Nawab Kudsia Begam on the Conclusion of the Afghan War; A manuscript letter written in palace script on both sides of a single sheet of parchment, embossed in gold with the Viceroy's royal coat of arms, addressed to Her Highness Nawab Kudsia Begam, M.C.I. Dated Simla 30th July 1879 and signed Lytton. The letter thanks the Begum for her congratulations on "the termination of hostilities with the Amir of Afghanistan" and promises to convey them to the Queen. This letter is folded at foot and fore-edge to fit the binding and is accompanied by another letter using the same wording and also signed Lytton but addressed to Her Highness Nawab Shah Jahan Begam, G.C.S.l., together with true copies in Persian on gold leaf decorated paper, certified and signed by the Secretary to the Government of India.

Sewn into a simple binding, the card covers with decorative local printed paper. The binding also includes an official copy on a folio sheet embossed with the small arms of the Govt of India, of a letter to the 1st Asst Agent to the Governor General for Central India [D W K Barr] from the Under Secretary to the Govt of India [Thomas Hope] thanking the Begum for her offer of sending the Bhopal Battalion for "employment in Afghanistan", together with a copy of Barr's letter to Hope and approximately 20 other related letters and documents in Persian, some bearing the inked seal of the AGG for Central India and with gold leaf decoration all housed in a half cloth with marbled papered boards folder.

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