File 16/57 I Routine correspondence with British agencies and consulates other than Bushire
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain, and other British offices in the Persian Gulf, including those at Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, and Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The routine correspondence covers: the ordering, exchange and de...
‘File 16/57 II Routine correspondence with Agencies and Consulates other than Bushire.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers of a routine nature, exchanged between the Political Agency in Bahrain, and other British offices in the Persian Gulf, including those at Kuwait, Muscat, Sharjah, and Bandar Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The file is a direct chronological continuation of File 16/57 I R...
‘16/58 Contributions for the sufferers of Bombay fire’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence received by the Political Agency relating to a donation of five hundred Indian rupees from the Bahrain merchant Rao Sahib Jashanmal, and the institution of a relief fund in Bombay [Mumbai], for the benefit of people suffering in the wake of the Bombay dockyard explosion and subseq...
‘16/59 Correspondence regarding Government of India Gazette.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence relating to the reorganisation and distribution of the Gazette of India. The file contains a circular letter from the Assistant Secretary to the Government of India, dated 18 April 1944, detailing sections of the Gazette and its sale and annual subscription prices (folio 3). The fi...
‘File 16/60 Correspondence regarding Local Clubs in Bahrain Is.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence from clubs, or concerning clubs in Bahrain: letters from representatives of the Bahrain Cricket Club, concerning requests to stage theatrical plays to support the club’s fundraising activities, and notification of the construction of a new club house. Papers include synopses for t...
Letters and other papers relating to complaints made to the Political Agency in Bahrain: complaints from individuals over ration cards issued by the Manama Municipality, and missing ration cards or numbers; commercial and contractual complaints between employees and employers, in relation to wo...
‘File No. 16/62 Shortage of meat and vegetables etc supplies in the Bazzar’
Scope & Content:
A single piece of correspondence, a letter from D Ham, Manager of the Bahrain branch of Eastern Bank Limited, to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 14 August 1944 (folio 2). Ham writes that his staff complain of having been unable to obtain meat in the bazaar for a fortnight, and asks if essen...
Cinema screening programmes and schedules for various organisations and institutions in Bahrain: cinema programmes for the Public Relations Office in the Persian Gulf’s cinema, dating from November 1944 until December 1946. The programmes are lists, indicating the date and time of screenings, ve...
‘File 16/64 Correspondence regarding indents placed on companies in India by the Executive Engineer, Persian Gulf Division’
Scope & Content:
Two items of correspondence addressed to the Executive Engineer of the Independent Persian Gulf Sub Division at Bushire, from the shipping agent Mackinnon Mackenzie & Company, who write in their capacity as agents for Jenson & Nicholson (India) Limited. Both letters, which bear Jenson &am...
‘File 16/65 Correspondence with the Imperial Bank of Iran, Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence with the Imperial Bank of Iran, with which the Political Agency held a number of accounts, as listed on folio 2. The correspondence is of a routine nature: branch opening hours; the opening of a Dubai branch of the bank; the issue of bank drafts ‘at par’ (face value) for official ...
