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91. IOR/R/15/2/502

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/502
Title:
File 12/15 Political Agent's tour
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and telegrams sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain, Hugh Weightman, mostly from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Political agent at Sharjah, regarding arrangements and programmes for his official visits to the Trucial Coast and Qa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jan 1937-1 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (233 folios)

92. IOR/R/15/2/538

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/538
Title:
File 14/3 Foreign Interests - American (General)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to American influence and activities in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency at Bushire (later at Bahrain), and the India Office. The file opens with a copy (folio 3) of correspo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1944-17 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (13 folios)

93. IOR/R/15/2/539

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/539
Title:
File 14/4 Visits of Japanese representatives and agents
Scope & Content:
The file contains notes, memoranda, and correspondence relating to the visits and treatment of Japanese and Italian subjects and agents in the Persian Gulf. The correspondence is mostly between the Political Agency at Bahrain, the Political Residency at Bushire, the British Ministry at Jeddah, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1936-4 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 file (41 folios)

94. IOR/R/15/2/543-550

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/543-550
Title:
File 15 Miscellaneous Reports
Scope & Content:
The files in this sub-sub series are categorised as miscellaneous reports; they cover diverse topics such as the ownership of islands in the Gulf as well as the leading personalities and tribes of Abu Dhabi, Buraimi and British Somaliland. The files include discussion of: the geographical charac...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1930-1949
Extent:
8 files (566 folios)

95. IOR/R/15/2/563

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/563
Title:
FILE NO. 17/14 - Vol-I POSTS AND TELEGRAPHS. WIRELESS STATIONS IN SAUDI ARABIA AND TELEGRAPH COMMUNICATIONS WITH ARABIAN MAINLAND.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises correspondence relating to an agreement reached in 1935 between the Saudi Arab Government and Cable and Wireless for the provision of external wireless telegraph communications from Saudi Arabia, including a proposed service between Hasa and Bahrain. A copy of the agreement ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jan 1932-23 Nov 1940
Extent:
1 volume (182 folios)

96. IOR/R/15/2/566

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/566
Title:
File No. 17/17 Direct Wireless Communication by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company With America.
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman, Reginald George Evelin Alban), Officer in Charge of the Bahrain Branch of Cable and Wireless (Cecil Edward Gahan), Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (SNOPG) (Cosmo Moray Graham), Political Resident ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Sep 1940-4 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (45 folios)

97. IOR/R/15/2/628

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/628
Title:
File 23/2 Major Head:- Intelligence. Subject:- Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
The file contains intelligence reports relating to Bin Saud [Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, submitted by Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo [Yūsuf bin Aḥmad Kanoo], Bahrein [Bahrain] to the Political Agent, Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch)....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1933-22 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (147 folios)

98. IOR/R/15/2/629

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/629
Title:
File 23/2 A Saudi-Yemen Situation Reports issued by Minister, Jeddah.
Scope & Content:
The file consists of situation reports from His Majesty's Minister at Jedda [Jeddah] (Sir Andrew Ryan) on the progress of hostilities between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, between March and July 1934. The reports are in the form of copies of telegrams (including one from the Political Agent, Kuwait) to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Mar 1934-7 Jul 1934
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

99. IOR/R/15/2/639

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/639
Title:
‘File 25/3 Agreement between UK and Italy’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a printed copy of a booklet containing two agreements: I. Agreement between the United Kingdom and Italy, consisting of a Protocol with Annexes and Exchanges of Notes; and II. Bon Voisinage Agreement and Exchanges of Notes between the United Kingdom and Italy, agreed in Rome on...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
30 Apr 1938
Extent:
1 file (23 folios)

100. IOR/R/15/2/768

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/768
Title:
File 29/18 II Tea and coffee: Bahrain, Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar
Scope & Content:
This is a correspondence file about the operation and impact of the quota system and export licensing restrictions that were imposed by the Government of India, on the supply of Indian tea (and to a lesser extent the supply of coffee) to Bahrain and also to Eastern Saudi Arabia and Qatar, during...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
28 Mar 1944-24 Mar 1946
Extent:
1 file (223 folios)