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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Agent, Kuwait, 1904-1961

131. IOR/R/15/2/636

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/636
Title:
‘File 24/6 KUWAIT PASSPORTS IN BOOK FORM’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two documents only, a short letter of enquiry and a short interim letter of reply, dated 28 December 1936 and 26 January 1937 respectively. The Political Agent, Kuwait, mentions that the Kuwait authorities are planning to introduce a passport system. He asks the Political Agent,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Dec 1936-26 Jan 1937
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

132. IOR/R/15/2/731

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/731
Title:
‘File 28/37 Dhow launches &c. for war purposes’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence relating to miscellaneous calls and requests for dhows and other watercraft, to perform various tasks related to wartime measures, including: transport of war equipment; use as floating craft platforms for wireless observation equipment; to assist in importing p...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Apr 1942-17 Oct 1943
Extent:
1 file (49 folios)

133. IOR/R/15/2/765

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/765
Title:
‘File 28/79 Discovery of wireless set at Jazirat Shaikh Shuaib’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the discovery of a wireless set, with parachute attached, at Kuwait, and four similar devices found near Lingah [Bandar-e Lengeh], reported by the Political Agent at Kuwait [Gordon Noel Jackson] and the British Consular Agent at Lingah respectively, i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1945-24 Apr 1945
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

134. IOR/R/15/2/783

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/783
Title:
File 29/23 i Contravention of Food Regulations and smuggling of quota goods
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about investigations conducted by the Political Agent, Bahrain into the maritime smuggling of rice, sugar, tea, matches, cotton piece goods and other essential commodities in short supply during the Second World War (1939-1945). Supply and trade in these goods be...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1944-16 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (227 folios)

135. IOR/R/15/2/785

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/785
Title:
‘File 29/25 DATES QUOTA – 1944-’45 FOR BAHRAIN AND TRUCIAL COAST’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence about a British Ministry of Food scheme in 1944 for ensuring a controlled supply of Iraqi dates at reasonable prices to the Persian Gulf shaikhdoms during the Second World War (1939-1945), because local date crops were insufficient and imported dates were subject...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 May 1944-24 Jan 1950
Extent:
1 file (92 folios)

136. IOR/R/15/2/870

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/870
Title:
File 38/15 Oil concessions in Arabia and the Gulf (Muscat)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the oil concession in Muscat, Oman, and Dhofar. The principal correspondents are: the Political Resident at Bushire (later Bahrain) [Persian Gulf Political Residency]; the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Agent at Kuwait; the Political Agent ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1933-1 Jan 1949
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

137. IOR/R/15/2/878

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/878
Title:
File 39/7 (10/9) Kuwait Oil Concession
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between Kuwait Oil Company, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Agent at Kuwait. The correspondence discusses the discovery of oil in Kuwait; because of the scarcity of oil found in the well at Bahra it was ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1936-16 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

138. IOR/R/15/2/881

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/881
Title:
File 39/11 (12/13) Magnetic observations in Bahrain by Kuwait Oil Company
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, primarily between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Kuwait and the Political Agent at Bahrain, regarding terrestrial magnetic observations as part of a seismic survey carried out in various stations of the Persian Gulf by Kuwait ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1936-26 Apr 1937
Extent:
1 file (33 folios)

139. IOR/R/15/2/883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/883
Title:
File 39/13 (10/13) Visit of APOC officials to Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Kuwait and the Political Resident at Bahrain, concerning visits of Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives to Bahrain. The file also include a letter from J MacPherson, Vice-Presid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1945-31 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

140. IOR/R/15/2/919

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/919
Title:
File No. 1/7 RECESS CORRESPONDENCE
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from the Political Agent at Bahrain regarding periods of time spent on recess away from Bahrain. Information contained within the correspondence includes itineraries, forwarding addresses, details of cyphers and codes taken on recess, and details of intended conversations with ind...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1937-24 Aug 1946
Extent:
1 file (83 folios)