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1. IOR/R/15/2/1492

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1492
Title:
File 16/00 Letters of good offices
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding providing letters of good offices. These were sent between the Political Agents in Bahrain and Kuwait, the Residency Agent in Sharjah, merchants and rulers of the Gulf. The sender would raise a case to the recipient and ask for his help mostly in mediat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
22 Mar 1928-5 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 file (136 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1556
Title:
‘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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Jul 1933-26 Feb 1935
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/1546

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1546
Title:
‘File 16/38-II Miscellaneous: Notes and orders’
Scope & Content:
Notes and instructions written by staff at the Political Agency, including the Political Agent (abbreviated through the file as ‘P.A.’), Assistant Political Agent (‘A.P.A.’) and Head Clerk (‘H.C.’). The notes concern the internal administration of the Agency, including building maintenance, offi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Jan 1937-31 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (108 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/1562

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1562
Title:
‘File 16/51 I Miscellaneous. Bapco Oriental Club’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) Oriental Club and the Political Agency in Bahrain, dated 1938, concerning permission to hold a ‘mimic cinema’ in the Company club house (ff 2-4). Correspondence and papers relating to two other sports and social clubs are also include...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1938-1 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1579

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1579
Title:
‘File 16/67 Publicity Dodge Truck’
Scope & Content:
Two items of correspondence with file notes, concerning the use of a Dodge truck belonging to the Public Relations Office in the Persian Gulf. The first letter states that the truck be used exclusively by the cinema operator and for broadcasting (folio 2). The second letter prohibits the truck’s ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1945-14 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/1582

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1582
Title:
‘File 16/70 Photographs of Ex-Political Agents & Ex. Asst. Political Agents. Bahrain.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence of a demi-official nature, concerning the Political Agent at Bahrain’s (Cornelius James Pelly) attempts to acquire photographs of his predecessors (and former Assistant Political Agents), so that they might be hung along a staircase in the Political Agency. Some of the replies fro...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1945-6 Jan 1946
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/1511

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1511
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/14 Correspondence regarding supplying of diaries etc’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence dated 1926, exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett) and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Beville Prideaux), regarding the distribution of the Bahrain Political Agency’s diaries. The correspondence...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1926-3 Jan 1929
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/1529

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1529
Title:
‘File 16/31 Miscellaneous. Eastern Bank New Building– – Correspondence regarding:’
Scope & Content:
Two pieces of demi-official correspondence, the first from H Bardon, Manager of The Eastern Bank Limited, Bahrain, dated 30 July 1931, and addressed to the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior). The letter, along with Prior’s reply which is also dated 30 July 1931, relates t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jul 1931
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/1503

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1503
Title:
‘Miscellaneous 16/10 Eastern Bank Ltd: Correspondence with ––’
Scope & Content:
Routine correspondence exchanged between the Bahrain Political Agency and successive managers of the Eastern Bank Limited in Bahrain (H Barden, D Ham, M Gunn, C W F Skrimshire). Correspondence received from the Eastern Bank includes: notices of credits to the Agency current account; notices of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 May 1926-31 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 file (259 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/1506

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1506
Title:
‘File 16/11 II Miscellaneous correspondence’
Scope & Content:
Routine correspondence received at and sent from the Bahrain Political Agency. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent; representatives of the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave; Claud Cranbrook Lewis DeGrenier). Most of the correspondence relates to a miscellany of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
4 Nov 1931-28 Jan 1944
Extent:
1 file (388 folios)