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11. IOR/R/15/2/593

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/593
Title:
‘19/5 SHUNKICHI NOMURA - JAPANESE OIL BROKER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a Japanese oil broker named Shunkichi Nomura; his intention to travel from Kabul to Iraq; the possibility he may be acting for the Japanese Government; and his eventual abandonment of plans to travel to Iraq. The file contains correspondence between Captain Everard Huddleston G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1933-25 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

12. IOR/R/15/2/594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/594
Title:
'19/6 MRS. HOWARD CHITTER'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the attempted visit to Bahrain and Kuwait by Winifred Howard-Clitty, a writer of children’s books, in the winter of 1933/34. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1933-3 May 1934
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

13. IOR/R/15/2/595

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/595
Title:
‘19/8 PRINCE AHMAD TAWHID AND JAMAL PASHA’
Scope & Content:
This file contains one letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain, to Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, dated 1 November 1931. The letter concerns the visit to Bahrain in 1931 of His Highness Prince Ahma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

14. IOR/R/15/2/596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/596
Title:
‘19/9 Mlle. CORBIAU’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns finding a temporary home in Bahrain for a female Belgian artist named Mademoiselle Corbiau who wishes to visit there to earn money by painting portraits. The correspondents in the file include: Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concession Limited, Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1945-19 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

15. IOR/R/15/2/597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/597
Title:
‘19/10 VISITS OF FOREIGN NOTABILITIES TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to visits to the Persian Gulf by foreign dignitaries. Correspondents in the file include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agents at Bahrain and Kuwait. The file includes: correspondence relating to the visit to B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1935-30 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)

16. IOR/R/15/2/598

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/598
Title:
‘19/11 MR. FELIX VALYI. MR FELIX VAYLI’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence from the British Consulate General at Bushire and the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the activities of Felix Valyi, a Hungarian Orientalist. In particular, are details of his plan for a 'world university' in Greece and a 'Council of Higher Learning in the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1946-16 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

17. IOR/R/15/2/599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/599
Title:
‘WILFRED THESIGER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the movements of Wilfred Thesiger at the end of his second crossing of the Empty Quarter [al-Rub‘ al-Khālī]. Correspondence in the file is between the Political Officer, Sharjah; the Political Agent, Bahrain; the Political Resident, Bahrain; the Political Agent, Muscat; the Re...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1948-27 May 1950
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

18. IOR/R/15/2/600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/600
Title:
‘NAWAB OF BHOPAL'S VISIT THROUGH BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent at Bahrain, and Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, concerning a stopover by the Nawab of Bhopal, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Hamidullah Khan, in Bahrain in Septe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1948-8 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

19. Mss Eur D922/1

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D922/1
Title:
An Account of a Journey in Kashmir by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer and Letters from Emily Overend Lorimer to her Parents sent from Bahrain and Kerman
Scope & Content:
This file consists of two separate physical files as follows: 1) An account of a journey in Kashmir in 1898-99 written by David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer of the Indian Army. His account is entitled 'Three Months of Privilege Leave'. It contains his observations on the languages, peoples, trans...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Persian
Date Range:
1898-1914
Extent:

2 files (630 folios)

20. Mss Eur D922/2

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D922/2
Title:
'En route from Bandar Abbas to Kerman. The Village of Kishku'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a letter that was sent from Emily Overend Lorimer to her parents, Thomas George Overend and Hannah Overend (née Kingsbury). The letter describes the overland journey from Bandar Abbas to Kerman that Emily and her husband, David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer (referred to as 'Loc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1912-5 Jan 1913
Extent:

1 file (33 folios)