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2. IOR/R/15/2/1507
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1507
- Title:
- ‘File 16/11 III Miscellaneous correspondence’
- Scope & Content:
- Routine correspondence received at and sent from the Bahrain Political Agency. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/11 II Miscellaneous correspondence’ (IOR/R/15/2/1506). The correspondence covers a diverse range of topics of a routine nature, including: passport and trave...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Arabic and English
- Date Range:
- 18 Feb 1944-11 Dec 1950
- Extent:
- 1 file (306 folios)
3. IOR/R/15/2/1492
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1492
- Title:
- File 16/00 Letters of good offices
- Scope & Content:
- The file contains correspondence regarding providing letters of good offices. These were sent between the Political Agents in Bahrain and Kuwait, the Residency Agent in Sharjah, merchants and rulers of the Gulf. The sender would raise a case to the recipient and ask for his help mostly in mediat...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- Arabic, English, and Persian
- Date Range:
- 22 Mar 1928-5 Nov 1931
- Extent:
- 1 file (136 folios)
4. IOR/R/15/2/1557
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1557
- Title:
- ‘File 16/47 Correspondence re:– Gramophone Record for Bahrain Police’
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch) and representatives in Calcutta [Kolkata] and London of His Master’s Voice Gramophone Company Limited, concerning the purchase by the Political Agent of a gramophone recording of Cock o’ the Nor...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 9 Jan 1934-22 Jun 1934
- Extent:
- 1 file (21 folios)
5. IOR/R/15/2/1556
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1556
- Title:
- ‘File 16/46 Miscellaneous. Supply of Vaccine & Medicines to Muscat’
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence relating to the delivery of medical supplies, from the Political Agency at Bahrain to the Political Agency at Muscat: in 1933, a request from the Political Agent at Muscat (Major Claude Edward Bremner) to the Political Agency in Bahrain, for a streptococcus vaccine (f 2). The requ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 24 Jul 1933-26 Feb 1935
- Extent:
- 1 file (14 folios)
6. IOR/R/15/2/1546
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1546
- Title:
- ‘File 16/38-II Miscellaneous: Notes and orders’
- Scope & Content:
- Notes and instructions written by staff at the Political Agency, including the Political Agent (abbreviated through the file as ‘P.A.’), Assistant Political Agent (‘A.P.A.’) and Head Clerk (‘H.C.’). The notes concern the internal administration of the Agency, including building maintenance, offi...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4 Jan 1937-31 Jul 1943
- Extent:
- 1 file (108 folios)
7. IOR/R/15/2/1562
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1562
- Title:
- ‘File 16/51 I Miscellaneous. Bapco Oriental Club’
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence between the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) Oriental Club and the Political Agency in Bahrain, dated 1938, concerning permission to hold a ‘mimic cinema’ in the Company club house (ff 2-4). Correspondence and papers relating to two other sports and social clubs are also include...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 4 May 1938-1 May 1948
- Extent:
- 1 file (10 folios)
8. IOR/R/15/2/1579
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1579
- Title:
- ‘File 16/67 Publicity Dodge Truck’
- Scope & Content:
- Two items of correspondence with file notes, concerning the use of a Dodge truck belonging to the Public Relations Office in the Persian Gulf. The first letter states that the truck be used exclusively by the cinema operator and for broadcasting (folio 2). The second letter prohibits the truck’s ...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 24 Apr 1945-14 Oct 1946
- Extent:
- 1 file (4 folios)
9. IOR/R/15/2/1582
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1582
- Title:
- ‘File 16/70 Photographs of Ex-Political Agents & Ex. Asst. Political Agents. Bahrain.’
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence of a demi-official nature, concerning the Political Agent at Bahrain’s (Cornelius James Pelly) attempts to acquire photographs of his predecessors (and former Assistant Political Agents), so that they might be hung along a staircase in the Political Agency. Some of the replies fro...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 10 Jun 1945-6 Jan 1946
- Extent:
- 1 file (19 folios)
10. IOR/R/15/2/1511
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1511
- Title:
- ‘Miscellaneous 16/14 Correspondence regarding supplying of diaries etc’
- Scope & Content:
- Correspondence dated 1926, exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett) and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Beville Prideaux), regarding the distribution of the Bahrain Political Agency’s diaries. The correspondence...
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- 21 Sep 1926-3 Jan 1929
- Extent:
- 1 file (8 folios)






