The file contains the following Foreign Office memoranda (with covering circulars) concerning revised foreign allowances: (1) Mission Fund and Consular Customs Rebate, March 1947; (2) Variability of the New Foreign Allowances, May 1947.
File 5/16 EMPLOYMENT UNDER H.M.GOVERNMENT: MINISTERIAL STAFF
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The file concerns the recruitment of staff of the Political Agency, Muscat (and the British Agency, Gwadur [Gwadar]) for service under HM Government, following the handover of responsibility for the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf from the Government of India to the Foreign Office. The ...
File 6/1 REPORTED PLOT TO GET SAIYID TURKI TO ABDICATE AND THEN RE-AMALGAMATE MUSCAT WITH ZANZIBAR IN 1880. SULTAN OF ZANZIBAR'S PRESENTS TO THE SHAIKHS OF OMAN. SUGGESTED COMPLICITY OF ZANZIBAR IN MUSCAT REBELLION OF 1895.
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The file concerns political matters concerning both Muscat and Oman (also referred to as Muskat and Maskat), and Zanzibar. The papers include: correspondence concerning reported discussions between Seyyid Toorkee [Sayyid Turkī bin Sa‘īd Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and his brother, ...
The Zanzibar files of the Political Agency, Muscat concern political affairs linking the Sultanate of Zanzibar with the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman. The main themes are political intrigues and unrest designed to bring about the deposition of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and his replacement w...
The file concerns two items of correspondence relating to Zanzibar. The first is an anonymous letter to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman (in Arabic, with English translation), dated 14 February 1901, concerning Hilal bin Amr, former Vizier to the Sultan of Zanzibar. The letter warns the Sultan tha...
File 6/1 Foreign Interests: American Mission at Muscat
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This file contains correspondence concerning matters related to the American Mission at Muscat including the movements and activities of its members and its desire to establish a hospital in Matrah [Muttrah]. Much of the correspondence is between officials at the Political Residency and the Br...
The Foreign Interests sub-sub-series contains files related to the interests and activities of foreign states in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman and the wider Gulf region. The files relate to the United States of America (IOR/R/15/6/145-147,174,179), France (IOR/R/15/6/148-151), Germany (IOR/...
File 6/1 Foreign Interests: American Mission at Muscat
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This file contains correspondence concerning the following: An application made for travel documents and permission to return to Muscat from India by Dr Sarah L Hosman of the American Mission and a nurse named May Edna Barter The enforced closure of the American Medical Mission school by the Mus...
File 6/2 Foreign Interests: Discontinuance of American Consulate at Muscat
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This file contains correspondence sent from the British Political Agency and Consulate in Muscat to the Political Residency in Bushire concerning the closure of the US Consulate in Muscat. It also contains a limited amount of correspondence on the same subject between the British Political Agenc...
File 6-B/4 Foreign Interests: Closure of French Consulate at Bushire
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This file consists of a single letter in French (with a cover note in English) sent from the Consul General of France in Bushire to the British Political Resident and Consul General in Bushire. The letter confirms the closure of the French Consulate in Bushire effective from 31 August 1934.
