The file and volume consists of correspondence, memos, and file notes relating to those subjects deemed miscellaneous within the Bushire Residency records. The first covers the evolution of the forms of address used for the various rulers of the Persian Gulf region. The second concerns locust sur...
'Old System' miscellaneous compilations. The first surviving file in this sub-series was renumbered as file 14/88se R/15/1/246. Subjects include the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation of 1891; Sirrī and other Persian Gulf islands; and commercial banks on the Arab coast of the Persian G...
There is one surviving file in the ‘Interdicts’ subject category. It is a bound volume of British official correspondence about the election of the first Kuwait Legislative Council in 1938.
There are two surviving files in the ‘Arms and Ammunition’ subject category. The earlier file relates to a search for concealed firearms in Dubai by British forces in 1910 and the civil disturbance this caused. The later file contains a series of monthly administrative reports 1929-1931, compile...
There is one surviving file in the ‘Telegraph Department’ subject category. The file contains a single document from 1947, about opening a telegraph station in Kuwait.
Bushire Political Residency correspondence: subject compilations
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Subject compilations of secret and general correspondence. There were a number of holders of the office of Political Resident in the Persian Gulf during the period in question, but the following Residents: Captain James Felix Jones, Lieutenant-Colonel Lewis Pelly, Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Charl...
The Judicial records of the Political Residency Bushire include papers relating to proposals for new Orders in Council; the drafting and publication of Orders in Council; proposals for amendments to existing Orders in Council by means of King's Regulations; the drafting and publication of King's ...
This sub-sub series is composed of one file that contains correspondence between British officials regarding the status and ownership of Qais [Kish] island off of the coast of Iran. The file contains a discussion of the island's history and a copy (with English translation) of the sanad (deed) th...