The file is comprised of twenty-six manumission application cases numbered 31 to 56, cases 13 to 30 being contained in the Bahrain Agency file 'File A/11 II Slave cases Trucial Coast' (IOR/R/15/2/1852). The file contains a total of eighty-nine individual manumission applications, made to the Res...
The file is comprised of twenty-four manumission application cases numbered 58 to 80, and is a continuation of the Bahrain Agency file 'File A/11 IV Slave cases Trucial Coast' (IOR/R/15/2/1853). The file contains a total of ninety-three individual manumission applications, made to the Residency ...
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to slaves' manumission applications heard at Sharjah. For each case, there is the initial correspondence, including the slave's manumission statement, sent from the Residency Agent at Sharjah ('Abd al-Razzaq Razuqi), followed by return c...
The file contains correspondence related to two slavery related incidents raised with the Political Agency in Bahrain. The first case (folios 1-22) involves two male ex-slaves who were apprehended by the Iranian police while travelling by boat to Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām] to recover their belong...
The file contains correspondence and other papers related to over thirty manumission applications heard at the Political Agency in Bahrain. The manumission statements for each slave are included in the file, along with related follow-up correspondence exchanged between the Bahrain Agency and oth...
'File No. B/1 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Shaikh and Notables of Qatar.’
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The file contains correspondence in the form of petitions and letters mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Ruler of Qatar. The two exchanged petitions on behalf of locals from Bahrain and Qatar respectively. The petitions were mainly regarding claims of debts, properties, stolen b...
'File No. B/2 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Amirs and Notables of Najd, Hasa and Qatif. & Ibn Saud’
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The file contains correspondence in the form of letters that are related to the arrangement of visits between the Political Agent, Bahrain and some of the Emirs and notables from Saudi Arabia. Letters of thanks were exchanged after the visits took place. The Political Agent, Bahrain and the Sa...
File B/3 Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Shaikh, the Notables and the Political Agent, Kuwait
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The file contains correspondence relating to several complaint cases investigated by the Political Agent, Bahrain. They include: the desertion of his wife by a Kuwaiti subject in 1930; the recovery of money owing to a divorced wife by her ex-husband in 1931; the alleged seizure of goods from the...
File No. B/5 V. O. Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Sultan of Muscat.
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The file contains two letters from the Political Agent, Bahrain, (Geoffrey Prior) to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (Sa‘id bin Taymur al-Bu Sa‘idi). The first letter is to congratulate the Sultan on his accession to the throne, and the second is to inform him about the handing over of the Politica...
‘File B/6 Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Political Agent, Muscat’
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The file contains correspondence relating to the settlement of various civil claims referred to the Political Agent and Consul at Muscat, chiefly by Omani subjects in disputes over money with relatives or associates currently living and working in Bahrain and Sharjah. There are also attempts by t...
