File 6/14 I Director of Customs, Bahrain; Trust Fund with Eastern Bank Ltd Bombay
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence connected to a trust fund established for the Director of Customs in Bahrain (Claud Cranbrook Lewis de Grenier). The majority of the papers are receipts, covering letters, and letters of acknowledgement relating to payments made into the trust fund by the Gove...
File 6/20 Bahrain Country Crafts registered at Customs - Certificates Countersigned by Political Agent
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the registration of boats in Bahrain. The vast majority of the papers are covering letters that were originally sent with registration certificates by the Director of Customs to the Political Agency for counter-signing. The certificates were then retu...
File 6/28 Prohibition of vegetable (adulterated) Ghi into Bahrain - Bahrain Govt notifications
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and public notices relating to a prohibition on importing vegetable ghee and mixed vegetable-animal ghee into Bahrain. The correspondence is between the Political Agency in Bahrain, Manama Municipality, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belg...
File 6/29 Purchase of Studebaker Car for H. E. Shaikh Hamad Al Khalifah
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the purchase by Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] of a Studebaker car. The correspondence is between the Political Agency at Bahrain, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), Shaikh Hamad, a...
‘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 ...
‘File 16/37 Miscellaneous. Monthly reports of locust occurrences in Bahrain– Submission of–’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, reports and other papers relating to the occurrence of locust swarms on the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf. The file chiefly comprises copies of monthly reports of locust occurrences at Bahrain and on the Trucial Coast, submitted by the Political Agency in Bahrain, at the request...
‘File 16/48 I Corr. re: Earl Haig’s Appeal Fund (Poppy Day)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers (order forms, promotional materials, product catalogues, receipts) relating to charitable collections in Bahrain for the Haig Fund (British Legion) from 1933 to 1944. The papers cover subscriptions collected and coordinated by the Political Agency, and from 1938, ...
‘File 18/16 Construction of new office for Political Resident’s Staff’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, invoices and insurance certificates, relating to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf’s new office building at Bahrain. It includes papers relating to the following: cement required for the construction of the new office; the shipment of pai...
File VIII/6 Death of Shaikh Jabir and Accession of Shaikh Salim
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the death of the ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Jābir II al-Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ), and the succession of his brother (Shaikh Sālim bin Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ). Reports were sent by the Secretary to the ruler of Kuwait (Al-Mulla Salih) to the Political Agent, Kuwait, in...
Messrs Gray Paul and Company's claim against Muhammad Ibrahim ibn Saif
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises letters and correspondence relating to debt owed by Muhammad Ibrahim bin Saif to a number of debtees including Gray Mackenzie and Company. The discussion in the volume relates to the circumstances of the debt and bankruptcy, and the resolution of the amount to be repaid. T...
