File 27/12 III Data for the Trade Report for 1921/22
Scope & Content:
This file consists entirely of data (in the form of handwritten notes and tables) that has been used to compile the tables of statistics that appear in the 1921-1922 trade report for Kuwait, which is included in the previous volume in this sub-sub-series (IOR/R/15/5/74). The file contains brief...
File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for
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This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence. Specifically, the majorit...
File 4/7 II Shaikh of Kuwait's Visit to Arab States, Europe , Etc
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This file contains correspondence regarding proposed and actual trips abroad that were made by the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. This includes details of plans that were made for trips to Egypt, India, Iraq and England that do not appear to have ultimately materialised, and ...
'File 2/24 II. AVIATION. B. ROYAL AIR FORCE (3R) R.A.F. Landing Ground at Murbat’
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The file contains correspondence related to the proposal of the Headquarters of the British Forces, Aden, to send by an Admiralty tanker 900 cases of petrol and fifty drums of oil to Murbat, Oman. The Sultan of Muscat and Oman was to give permission to the Wali of Murbat to arrange for the proced...
File 6/10 Foreign Interests: Persian Government Affairs, Etc. & Miscellaneous Papers re. Persians
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This file contains two items of correspondence that were sent from the British Legation in Tehran to a number of British diplomatic posts in the Persian Gulf including the Political Agency in Muscat. One relates to the resignation of the Persian Government in September 1933, the other to Iranian ...
‘X. PASSPORTS AND PROTECTION. (2) Impounding of British passports by local Customs.’
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The file contains two copies of a letter by Ralph Ponsonby Watts, the Political Agent, Muscat to Sayyid Shihab bin Faysal Al Bu Sa‘idi, representative of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman regarding the impounding of British subjects’ passports by the Muscat State officials.
‘File B/10 V Claim against Lukoomal Devanmal at Dubai’
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The file contains correspondence relating to a debt recovery claim for rent arrears, made in 1936 by Shaikh Ma’na bin Rashid [Shaikh Mani bin Rashid Āl Maktūm] and Muhammad Saleh Kadhem [Mohamed Saleh Kazim], the owner and landlord respectively of a shop in Dubai. Their claim is against Lukoomal...
‘File B/10 IX Claim of Maginmal Likumdas of Dubai’
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The file contains two letters written in both Arabic and English, in July 1933. The first letter is a report from the Residency Agent, Sharjah to the Political Agent, Bahrain about a claim of fraud made by Maginmal Likumdas (also spelt Lakamdas) of Dubai, against a former slave called Sultan Al H...
File F/2 I Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Manamah Municipality.
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This file contains a wide variety of papers, budgetary ledgers, and letters regarding a variety of subjects. Almost all the file's contents is formed of correspondence between the assistant to the head of the Manama Municipality and the Political Agent in Bahrain. A minority of the papers involve...
The volume comprises orders made by the Political Agent at Bahrain, pertaining to the administration of the Agency, and in some cases to the administration of the Victoria Memorial Hospital. Orders are numbered, dated, and signed by the Political Agent. The volume includes: orders registering t...
