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8061. IOR/R/15/2/1502

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1502
Title:
‘File 16/9 II Id Calls and letters of greetings etc’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises: Eid (referred to as Id throughout) greetings sent during Id Adh-Dhuha [Eid-al-Adha] and Id Al Fitr [Eid-al-Fitr] by the Bahrain Political Agent (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch) to the various rulers in the Persian Gulf, and letters in return giving thanks and acknowledg...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1933-11 Mar 1936
Extent:
1 file (322 folios)

8062. IOR/R/15/2/1599

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1599
Title:
File 17/2 II Stores for the Agency Steam Launch etc.
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the acquisition of supplies, equipment, and replacement parts for the Bahrain Agency's launch. Most of the file is made up of bills, receipts, and acknowledgements of orders placed with suppliers; this includes correspondence related to queries regarding orders placed, or prosp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1934-17 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)

8063. IOR/R/15/2/1651

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1651
Title:
File 19/1 III Tours of Political Agent, Bahrain
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements and expenses for visits of the Political Agent and the Officiating Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain John Baron Howes) to Basra, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Dubai, Ras al Khaimah; and programmes of tours of Bahrain by the Pol...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Jun 1938-25 Sep 1950
Extent:
1 file (196 folios)

8064. IOR/R/15/2/1654

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1654
Title:
File 19/2 IV The Honourable the Political Resident's tours, etc
Scope & Content:
The file contains telegrams and correspondence regarding arrangements for official visits of the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf to Bahrain and other Persian Gulf countries between 1937 and 1944. The file contains programmes of the visits, arrangements for meetings with ruling families, ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1937-2 Dec 1944
Extent:
1 file (415 folios)

8065. IOR/R/15/2/1760

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1760
Title:
File 31/2 III Correspondence re Books and Publications
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to the purchase of books by the Political Agency at Bahrain, subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals, and the supply of empty manumission forms. The documents in the file include advertisements, orders for books and magazines, cheques, and receipts of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1937-21 Dec 1942
Extent:
1 file (284 folios)

8066. IOR/R/15/5/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/48
Title:
File 13/7 Illicit Trade of Arms and Ammunition
Scope & Content:
The file concerns incidents of arms and ammunition smuggling in Kuwait. The file contains general correspondence on arms smuggling; statements and memoranda; lists of arms and ammunition smuggled; lists of Persian firms exporting arms and ammunition; list of Persian merchants of importance in K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Dec 1890-29 Sep 1931
Extent:
1 file (184 folios)

8067. IOR/R/15/5/104

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/104
Title:
[Un-numbered file] 'Diary of Colonel Hamilton's Visit to Nejd 1918'
Scope & Content:
The file includes a printed copy (folios 16-41) of the diary of Colonel Robert Edward Hamilton's (Political Agent at Kuwait) visit to Najd in 1918 on a mission to Ibn Sa'ud. The file also includes the original typed copy (folios 43-102) of the diary. The diary describes his trip from Kuwait to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Sep 1917-28 Dec 1918
Extent:
1 volume (102 folios)

8068. IOR/R/15/5/114

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/114
Title:
‘1/1 Volume VI Kuwait Saudi Relations’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning negotiations finalising trade, Bon Voisinage and extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in an effort to lift the trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the of King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1938-16 Oct 1939
Extent:
1 volume (248 folios)

8069. IOR/R/15/5/138

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/138
Title:
File 2/4 IV TAXATION of SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. The correspondence is mainly about the taxation imposed on the gardens by the Iraqi Government. British offici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Mar 1934-1 May 1939
Extent:

1 volume (269 folios)

8070. IOR/R/15/5/140

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/140
Title:
File 2/5 I SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence related to a court suit raised in Basra Court by Rafiyaa bint Ali al-Zuhair and other members of al-Zuhair family complaining against the Ruler of Kuwait. The suit in question concerns a portion of the Shaikh’s Faddaghiya estate on Shatt al-Arab, and the Bashiya ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Sep 1930-22 Dec 1932
Extent:
1 file (156 folios)

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