This volume relates to the trade reports of various British agencies and consulates in the Persian Gulf. The first folio of the volume contains a list of contents that is not entirely accurate. The volume does begin with a report entitled 'Report on the Trade of Oman, Bahrein [sic], and Arab Por...
The file contains correspondence relating to the estates of two British subjects who died in Kuwait: Ibrahim Khan, servant of Lieutenant F H Townshend, and Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear, Political Agent, Kuwait. The file includes: correspondence between Lieutenant Townshend, Royal Engi...
The volume contains memoranda, confidential papers, personal letters and testimonies related to alleged smuggling of food and goods from Kuwait to Iraq. The correspondence includes two unsuccessful proposals for conferences to be held between Iraqi and Kuwaiti officials to discuss the limits of ...
The file contains correspondence by the Political Resident, Bushire, to the Political Agent, Kuwait, asking him to remind the Shaikh of Kuwait to prepare a report related to the Istihlak (consumption) tax he paid on the produce of his date gardens in Iraq in 1938 and 1939. The Shaikh wrote back p...
The file includes three land deeds of the date gardens, all dated 12 February 1909. The first two deeds are between the Shaikh of Kuwait Mubarak al-Sabah and Abdul Wahhab al-Qirtass, on behalf of certain members of al-Zuhair family in Basra Iraq. The third deed is between Shaikh Mubarak and Shafi...
The file contains correspondence in the form of telegrams and letters that are related to the following: the use and control of the airfields in the Persian Gulf; the Royal Air Force (RAF) obtaining permission from the Sultan of Muscat and Oman for the use of certain areas in Salalah, Dhofar and...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to slavery in the Gulf. The file contains the 'Note on certain enquiries made by the Committee [League of Nations Advisory Committee of Experts] relative to certain states in the Persian Gulf.' Included i...
This file is comprised of correspondence concerning British and American proposals relating to the continental shelf of the Gulf and offshore oil. The file includes correspondence (ff 11-17) from the British Embassy, Washington to the Foreign Office, London, discussing the issues of sovereignty...
ARAB COAST 14/194 Deposition of Shaikh Saqar bin Khalid and Succession of Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar as Shaikh of Sharjah. 1924.
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the deposition of Shaikh Saqar bin Khalid and succession of Shaikh Sultan bin Saqar as Shaikh of Sharjah. The Political Resident Persian Gulf brokered an agreement over this succession which included the place of residence for the former ruler and payments. Includes ge...
File 35/34 I Muskat: Grievances of the Banians about notification issued by the Sultan fixing 19 maund as the weight of a rice bag
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning complaints from Banians about notification issued by Sultan fixing the weight of rice bags in the unit of measurement of weight known as a maund. Correspondence discusses the difference between a Muskat maund and a Bengal maund and issues relating to the sale of rice by...
