File XVII/2 Government Property, Christian Cemeteries
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the maintenance and condition of the three Christian (or European) cemeteries in Muscat. The majority of the correspondence in the file is internal correspondence between British officials, but the file also contains correspondence between the Politic...
This volume contains correspondence and documents regarding the creation and management of a garden attached to the Political Agency in Muscat. Most of the correspondence in the volume is between officials of the Political Agency in Muscat and various horticultural suppliers and specialists in...
File 17/3 Government Property: Plans of Agency Building
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence, primarily between the Political Agency in Muscat and the Executive Engineer (Persian Gulf, Bushire), regarding the Political Agency building in Muscat, including its fire precautions and the installation of electric lights and fans. The file also contains blu...
This file contains correspondence regarding the construction, furnishing and subsequent maintenance and repairs of a 'political bungalow' for the use of British officials to stay in while visiting Gwadur [Gwadar]. A plan of the bungalow produced prior to construction is contained on folio 41. I...
File 17/7 Boat for the use of the Political Agent, Muscat
Scope & Content:
This volume contains correspondence and documents, primarily invoices and receipts, concerning the supply of sailing vessels and related parts to the Political Agency in Muscat. Much of this correspondence relates to the purchase of a Montagu whaler boat (generally referred to in the papers erro...
File 17/13 Acquisition of Gwadar Political Bungalow by Air Ministry for Imperial Airways
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the acquisition of a bungalow in Gwadur [Gwadar] by Imperial Airways. Prior to its purchase the bungalow was used primarily by British political officers passing through Gwadur. The correspondence also discusses the furnishing...
This file contains correspondence between officials of the British Agency in Gwadur [Gwadar], the Political Agency in Muscat and the Indo-European Telegraph Department regarding the allocation of funds for the maintenance of the Christian Cemetery in Gwadur.
File XVII/19 Government Property; Christian Cemetery at Gwadur
Scope & Content:
This file contains a letter sent to the Political Residency in Bushire regarding the 'deplorable state of neglect' of the Christian cemetery in Gwadur [Gwadar] and an estimate of costs for the construction of a wall around the cemetery that was sent by the British Agency in Gwadur to the Politica...
File 17/16 Fish Industry in Muscat (Dr. Bertram's Visit to Muscat)
Scope & Content:
This file consists of the following: A copy of a report entitled 'Fishery Development at the Head of the Persian Gulf with Special Reference to the Needs of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Abadan. by G C L Bertram MA PhD, Middle East Supply Centre, 25th August, 1944' (folios 3-19) Correspondence rega...
File 18/8 Sanitation of Muscat proposed drainage of malarial pond behind Muscat
Scope & Content:
This file contains a series of short letters from the Political Agent in Muscat eliciting the opinion of the Executive Engineer at the British Residency at Bushire regarding the treatment or drainage of the malarial swamp near Muscat town.
