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File 8/38 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: QWASIMI SHAIKH OF DHIBBA'S RELATIONS WITH THE STATE
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This file, continuing on from the previous file in the sequence [IOR/R/15/6/220], concerns an ongoing dispute between the Qawasim [Āl Qawāsim] and the Shihuh, two tribes residing at Diba [Dibba, transliterated in various ways throughout the file]. The correspondence, which discusses reports of...
File 8/54 MUSCAT STATE AFFAIRS: AFFAIRS OF MEMBERS OF RULING FAMILY
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This file relates to the financial affairs of the ruling family of Muscat. The correspondence mainly concerns British objections to an arrangement by which the Muscat State acts as a debt collecting agency on behalf of creditors against members of the ruling family. The system reportedly encoura...
File 9/1 I Naval & Shipping: Movements of HM Ships and Naval Officers
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Correspondence concerning the movement of ships through Muscat. The majority of the file is made up of notifications of the arrival and departure of HM ships into and out of Muscat. These papers deal with the questions of gun salutes and official visits when appropriate. Other matters covered by...
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to oil concessions in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman The discussion in the file relates to the exploration for oil by Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited in Dhofar, Buraimi and Huqf. Further ...
The correspondence book consists of translations and substances of letters, with enclosures, addressed to Captain David Wilson, British Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, Mirza Hadayat Ullah [Mīrzā Hidāyatullāh] and Captain Samuel Hennell. The dates of the letters are given using the Grego...
The file contains letters received by Captain Samuel Hennell, British Political Resident in the Persian Gulf in 1841, mainly from J P Willoughby, Secretary to the Government of Bombay. At this period, the British Residency was based temporarily on the island of Karrack. The letters to the Reside...
The volume contains copies of correspondence sent and original correspondence received by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, relating to Bahrein [Bahrain] and the Wahabees [Wahhabis]. The Political Resident in the Persian Gulf throughout the period was Captain (James) Felix Jo...
File 61/14 XI (D 58) Relations between Nejd and Iraq
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The volume contains letters, telegrams, reports and memoranda relating to affairs between Najd, Iraq, and Kuwait. The majority of the correspondence is between Harold Dickson, the Political Agent in Kuwait, Cyril Barrett, the Political Resident in Bushire, Charles Prior, the Political Agent in B...
The file primarily focuses on the progress being made by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) in drilling for oil in Kuwait, including establishing drills at new sites and the discovery of oil at the Burgan site in February 1938. Later correspondence relates to various topics, as follows: the work and t...
The correspondence in the volume relates primarily to the cessation of the operations of the Kuwait Oil Company during World War Two, and their plans for post-war development once peace is declared. These plans included the development of tanker anchorages, pipe-lines for both oil and water, the...
