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032-000209245 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Postal services

1. IOR/R/15/2/1423

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1423
Title:
File 14/8 Introduction of trans-desert mail service
Scope & Content:
The file contains the copy of a letter forwarded by the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf to the Political Agent at Bahrain. The letter, written by the Secretary General Post Office to the Foreign Office, in London, concerns the introduction of a trans-desert mail service between Damascus a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Sep 1933-24 Oct 1933
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1429

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1429
Title:
File 14/14 Postal franking machine for BAPCO
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) requesting to purchase a franking machine to cater for their needs for stamps. The request is granted by the Political Agent at Bahrain.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1946-13 Feb 1947
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/5/94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/94
Title:
'File 1/C Volume I. Miscellaneous'.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, receipts and notes on various topics concerning the Kuwait Political Agency, January 1921 to August 1921. An index of topics contained in the volume is listed on folio 6. Topics discussed in the volume include: The presentat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1919-30 Aug 1921
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/709

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/709
Title:
‘File 28/18 Sabotage smuggling etc of mail’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and notes relating to the possible sabotage and smuggling of mail: a telegram from the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (SNOPG), dated 18 November 1940, reporting a suspected case of sabotage in which a leaking jar of acid was found in a mail bag (f 2); a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1940-22 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1412

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1412
Title:
File 14/1 V Conveyance of mails at Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence with Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo, regarding the contract for conveyance of mail at Bahrain, and the cost of the service. The file also contains copies of agreements between the Political Agency and Yusuf bin Ahmed Kanoo (folios 4-7, 20-24, 37-40).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Aug 1945-1 Sep 1947
Extent:
1 file (56 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1427

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1427
Title:
File 14/12 Correspondence with Residency Bushire and other places regarding way bills
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Residency Agent at Sharjah and the Political Agent at Bahrain. The correspondence is forwarding waybills for mail bags and letters (not included), and also includes orders for stamps.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1944-10 Aug 1944
Extent:
1 file (11 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1430

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1430
Title:
File 14/15 Money order and cash-on-delivery services between UK and the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters from the Foreign Office, forwarded by the Political Residency at Bahrain to the Political Agent at Bahrain, regarding the introduction of money order and cash-on-delivery services between UK and the Gulf. This was allowed for the purpose of helping the Oil Companies and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jul 1950
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1524

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1524
Title:
‘File 16/27 Miscellaneous. Miscellaneous Assistance to Government Officials’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency, and dealing with a miscellaneous range of day-to-day matters: arrangements amongst British officials and shipping agents in the Persian Gulf for the delivery, forwarding and receipt of letters, packages, furniture, motor vehicles, and other i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Nov 1920-13 Nov 1954
Extent:
1 file (283 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1531

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1531
Title:
‘File 16/32-II Miscellaneous. Correspondence with the Residency, Bushire.’
Scope & Content:
Copies of correspondence exchanged between British offices in the Persian Gulf, chiefly the Persian Gulf Political Residency or British Consulate in Bushire, and the Political Agency in Bahrain. The papers deal with matters of a routine nature, including: the order of goods from suppliers and me...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 May 1938-26 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (271 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/6/409

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/409
Title:
File 12/3 II RAS-AL-HADD MAIL SERVICE PROPOSAL
Scope & Content:
The file concerns proposals for the improvement of the mail service in Muscat and Oman. Muscat was said in 1944 to have been 'ill supplied with mail facilities for many months, resulting in serious delays in delivery of official mail and excessive expenditure on telegrams' (folio 45). The commer...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1943-16 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (88 folios)