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1. 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)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1494

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1494
Title:
‘File 16/1 II Correspondence with the American Mission’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the American Mission at Bahrain (including the American Mission Hospital) relating to three separate matters: an application made in May 1945 by Dr William Harold Storm of the American Mission Hospital, to travel to Hassa [al-Aḥsā’] with...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1945-10 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1495

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1495
Title:
‘File 16/2 Correspondence between the Hon. the P.R. and H.E. the H.C. for Iraq and King Ibn Saud’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between British Government officials, and between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) and the King of Nejd and Hejaz (Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]), concerning territorial transgressions and treaties associated with th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1929-4 Mar 1930
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1496

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1496
Title:
‘File 16/3 Miscellaneous. Memorials and messages submitted to the Government of India and his Majesty’
Scope & Content:
Copies of revised and reissued Government memoranda and official notifications, outlining procedures to be followed in the submission, receipt and transmission of memorials and petitions to the King and to the Governor General in Council. The instructions are distributed by the Government of Ind...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Dec 1917-22 Jul 1946
Extent:
1 file (52 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1497

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1497
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/4 Correspondence with – the Mespers, Bahrain, etc.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agency at Bahrain and various steamship operators at Bahrain, as follows: until 1937, representatives of the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited (MPC hereafter; briefly referred to as the Mesopotamia Iran Corporation in early 1937 and referred to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1926-18 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (268 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1498

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1498
Title:
‘File 16/5 Bahrain Agency: fortnightly political diaries’
Scope & Content:
Reports, submitted by the Political Agent (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) or the Indian Assistant at the Political Agency in the Political Agent’s absence, detailing proceedings at Bahrain and elsewhere. The reports are organised under various headings, as follows: arrivals and departures of sh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jan 1930-10 Jan 1931
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1499
Title:
‘File 16/6 Diary weekly Kuwait’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly reports (as opposed to weekly reports, as stated on its cover) from the Political Agency in Kuwait. The reports are signed by the Political Agent (Major James Carmichael More; Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson), or, in his absence,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1926-31 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1500

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1500
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/7 Pension to Abdur Rehman – Civil’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to pension payments made by the Pensions Department of the Iraq Government, to Abdul Rahman bin Hassan, a resident of Hassa [Al-Aḥsā’]. The file’s principal correspondents are: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett); representatives of the Pe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 May 1926-29 May 1930
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1501

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1501
Title:
‘16/8 Miscellaneous:- Surveyor required for Khassab to take temperature readings under British Residency Bushire’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning a request from the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf, made to the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) via the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Reginald George Evelin William Alban), for a surveyor, who is required to take temperatur...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1927-17 May 1928
Extent:
1 file (37 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1502

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1502
Title:
‘File 16/9 II Id Calls and letters of greetings etc’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises: Eid (referred to as Id throughout) greetings sent during Id Adh-Dhuha [Eid-al-Adha] and Id Al Fitr [Eid-al-Fitr] by the Bahrain Political Agent (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch) to the various rulers in the Persian Gulf, and letters in return giving thanks and acknowledg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1933-11 Mar 1936
Extent:
1 file (322 folios)