‘File 16/41 Miscellaneous. Horses belonging to late Sir Hugh Biscoe – Correspondence ref:’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning two horses given to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe) by the King of Nejd and Hejaz, Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] in 1932. The majority of the correspondence takes place between staff a...
‘File 16/42 Visitors and guests of the Political Agent, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, some of a demi-official nature, relating to visitors and guests at the Political Agency at Bahrain. Most of the correspondence is routine, and relates to enquires and arrangements for the arrival and departure of visitors, and in some cases the provision of accommodation and faci...
‘File 16/42 II Visitors and guests of the Political Agent, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to arrangements for visits to Bahrain, or passages through Bahrain, by various individuals, including: Harbans Lal Jerath, Director of Posts and Telegraphs at Karachi, on an official visit in late 1946 and early 1947. Details of the visit, including a tou...
‘File 16/43-I Miscellaneous. (i) Holidays observed by the Political Agency, Bahrain. (ii) Notes re: Daily Working Hours’
Scope & Content:
Notices, office notes and some correspondence relating to the public holidays observed by, and working hours of, the Political Agency. The notices in the file, signed by or on behalf of the Political Agent, were circulated to Bahrain Government representatives, administrative officials, and vari...
‘File 16/43 II Holidays observed by the Political Agency and Notices re: Daily working hours’
Scope & Content:
Notices and correspondence relating to the public holidays observed by, and working hours of, the Political Agency. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/43-I Miscellaneous. (i) Holidays observed by the Political Agency, Bahrain. (ii) Notes re: Daily Working Hours’ (IOR/R/1...
‘File 16/44 Holidays observed by the Bahrain Government and other local offices. and their working hours and other changes in their personnel’
Scope & Content:
Notices and memoranda from various institutions and commercial concerns in Bahrain, informing the Political Agency of office closures (in observance of Christian, Islamic, Jewish and Hindu festivals, bank holidays, and other occasions such as the King’s birthday) or changes to working hours. Not...
‘File 16/45 Case of certain thefts from the Political Agency, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, statements and other papers relating to incidents of theft occurring at the Political Agency: in June 1933, the theft of money from drawers in an Agency office (ff 2-9); in March 1934, another incident of money stolen from Agency cash boxes (ff 10-11); in August 1937, an incident...
‘File 16/46 Miscellaneous. Supply of Vaccine & Medicines to Muscat’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the delivery of medical supplies, from the Political Agency at Bahrain to the Political Agency at Muscat: in 1933, a request from the Political Agent at Muscat (Major Claude Edward Bremner) to the Political Agency in Bahrain, for a streptococcus vaccine (f 2). The requ...
‘File 16/47 Correspondence re:– Gramophone Record for Bahrain Police’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch) and representatives in Calcutta [Kolkata] and London of His Master’s Voice Gramophone Company Limited, concerning the purchase by the Political Agent of a gramophone recording of Cock o’ the Nor...
‘File 16/48 I Corr. re: Earl Haig’s Appeal Fund (Poppy Day)’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers (order forms, promotional materials, product catalogues, receipts) relating to charitable collections in Bahrain for the Haig Fund (British Legion) from 1933 to 1944. The papers cover subscriptions collected and coordinated by the Political Agency, and from 1938, ...
