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The file comprises correspondence relating to licences for arms carried by the nakhudas of boats on the Arab coast of the Gulf. Correspondents in the file include the Political Agent at Bahrain, and the Rulers of Abu Dhabi, Kalba, Qatar, Ra’s al-Khaymah and Umm al-Qaywayn. The file includes: a ...
File 6/43 II Bahrain Government Hospital and Dispensary
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The file contains correspondence relating to the Bahrain Government Hospital and the dispensary. The correspondence is between The Political Agency in Bahrain, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave), Government of India (Central Revenues and India Store Departments), I...
File 14/3 II Establishments, pay and allowances etc
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The file contains correspondence and telegrams regarding staff, pay, and allowances at the Post Office in Bahrain. The file mainly concerns drinking water allowance, house rent allowance and other benefits for Post Office clerks, and includes a letter signed by all staff requesting a pay rise. ...
The file consists of papers, mostly correspondence, cost estimates, and invoices, mainly relating to cost estimates and payments, for works to be carried out to the Political Agency building and compound in Bahrain. It includes papers relating to the following: The shipping of sanitary fittings...
File B/7 Miscellaneous correspondence with Residency Agent, Sharjah, and notables and Shaikhs of Oman
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The file contains numerous courtesy letters expressing friendship, congratulations and thanks, which are exchanged mainly between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Shaikhs of Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah. The majority of courtesy letters received by the Political Agent, Bahrain are from the D...
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to ownership of Bubiyan Island [Jazīrat Būbiyān] and Warba Island [Jazīrat Warbah]. The discussion in the volume relates to: a military post on Bubiyan Island; proposal to include right of pre-emption of W...
Correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Britain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The volume is a direct chronological continuation of ‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’ (IOR/R/15/5/109), and covers the following subjects: The movements of Khalid bin Hithlain of the Al-’Ajman tri...
Correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, and efforts to negotiate the lifting of a trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). The volume is a direct ...
This volume is a continuation from IOR/R/15/5/148. It contains correspondence, memoranda and legal papers regarding law suits brought against the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] by the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh, Al Bashiyah and Al Fao properties. The papers disc...
This volume is a continuation from IOR/R/15/5/149. It contains correspondence, memoranda and legal papers regarding law suits brought against the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] by the heirs of the former owners of the Al Faddaghiyeh, Al Bashiyah and Al Fao properties. The papers disc...
