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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1492
Title:: File 16/00 Letters of good offices
Scope & Content:: The file contains correspondence regarding providing letters of good offices. These were sent between the Political Agents in Bahrain and Kuwait, the Residency Agent in Sharjah, merchants and rulers of the Gulf. The sender would raise a case to the recipient and ask for his help mostly in mediat...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 22 Mar 1928-5 Nov 1931
Extent:: 1 file (136 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1492-1594
Title:: File 16: Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:: The bulk of the surviving Miscellaneous subject files is made up of routine correspondence, exchanged with a number of organisations, many of which are of a governmental or commercial nature: the American Mission in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1493-1494); the Bahrain office of the shipping agent Mesopot...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1917-1954
Extent:: 102 files (13,197 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1518
Title:: ‘File 16/23 [I] Miscellaneous. Payment of Military pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and other correspondence regarding.’
Scope & Content:: Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments from the Bahrain Treasury, including to former employees of the State Police in Bahrain. The principal correspondents include: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior; Lieutenant-Colonel Pe...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 10 Aug 1927-15 Dec 1934
Extent:: 1 file (187 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1519
Title:: ‘Miscellaneous:– Payments of Military Pensions from the Bahrain Treasury and their Correspondence regarding’
Scope & Content:: Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch; Captain Tom Hickinbotham; Hugh Weightman); the Controller (or Deputy Control...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: Jan 1935-11 Apr 1940
Extent:: 1 file (239 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1520
Title:: ‘16/23-III Miscellaneous – Payments of Military Pension from the Bahrain Treasury and other Correspondence regarding’
Scope & Content:: Memoranda, statements, forms and other papers relating to military pension payments made from the Bahrain Treasury. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent in Bahrain; the Controller (or Deputy Controller) of Military Pension Accounts [CMPA] in the Lahore Cantonment. The file is a ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English, Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, and Tamil
Date Range:: 13 Aug 1938-19 Mar 1945
Extent:: 1 file (366 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1555
Title:: ‘File 16/45 Case of certain thefts from the Political Agency, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:: Correspondence, statements and other papers relating to incidents of theft occurring at the Political Agency: in June 1933, the theft of money from drawers in an Agency office (ff 2-9); in March 1934, another incident of money stolen from Agency cash boxes (ff 10-11); in August 1937, an incident...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 10 Jun 1933-25 Nov 1947
Extent:: 1 file (29 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1595-1630
Title:: File 17: Government Property
Scope & Content:: This sub-sub-series largely relates to the acquisition of stationery, tools, materials, supplies, and motor vehicles for the Political Agency, Bahrain. The files concerning stationery document the purchase of items such as rubber stamps, notepaper, envelopes, and court fee stamps. Other files co...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, Farsi, and Persian
Date Range:: 1926-1950
Extent:: 36 files (6567 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1626
Title:: File 17/25 Stationery purchased from firms
Scope & Content:: This file consists largely of correspondence concerning stationery supplied to the Political Agency, Bahrain. Items ordered include rubber stamps, notepaper, envelopes, and printed forms. Much of the correspondence relates to the details of orders and the granting of export permits (from the Gov...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English and Persian
Date Range:: 7 Feb 1942-8 Oct 1945
Extent:: 1 file (185 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1663
Title:: File 20/1- Vol: III Ceremonial and Celebrations: New Year's and King's Birthday's Celebrations.
Scope & Content:: The file contains papers regarding the celebration of the King's Birthday and Christmas and New Year’s Day between 1935-1939. Christmas and New Year’s Day were announced as an official holiday at the Agency in Bahrain. The King's Birthday was celebrated in June each year, but was not an official...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 31 Oct 1935-4 Jun 1939
Extent:: 1 file (283 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/2/1663-1675
Title:: File 20: Ceremonials and Celebrations
Scope & Content:: There are thirteen surviving files containing correspondence dating mainly from 1914 to 1950, about Celebrations and Ceremonials. Files IOR/R/15/2/1663-1665 contain correspondence regarding the celebrations arranged every year by the Political Agency, Bahrain, for both the King’s Birthday and Ne...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:: 1914-1950
Extent:: 13 files (1,556 folios)

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