File 6/2 II Aviation - Foreign Aircraft. (Iraqi Airways, Iranian Airways, etc. Including recommendation for I.A.T.A. approval)
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This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait and various agents for regional and international airlines pertaining to permission to establish routes to Kuwait. Papers towards the end of the file include correspondence with the UK Civil Aviation authorities and British ...
'File XXII/5 Houses and Landed Property Deeds in connection with the purchase by Govt. of the premises adjoining the British Consulate at Muscat in August. 1901 (near British Consular Escort Lines).’
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The volume contains conveyances and sale deeds of properties in Muscat, which were purchased by the British Consulate at Muscat, on behalf of the British Government. It also contains sale deeds between foreigners in Muscat that have been approved by the British Consulate Court at Muscat.
File XXXIII/4 H. H. Saiyid Faisal's proposal to abdicate and take British Protection from Saiyid Taimur 1903.
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The file contains a letter sent by the Consul and Political Agent, Muscat to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department, Simla in which he reports on his interview with the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and the latter’s proposal to abdicate in favour of his son Saiyid Taimur bin Fai...
'File 23/II-B-Vol II ABDICATION of SULTAN SAIYID TAIMUR & ACCESSION of SAIYID SAID Nov. 1931- Dec. 1932.’
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The volume contains correspondence in the form of letters and reports related to the abdication of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Taymūr bin Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īdi and the succession of his son, Sa‘id bin Taymūr in 1932. The correspondence is concerned with the financial difficulty the abd...
File 4/6 Formal calls between Commanders of H.M. Ships, Sheikhs of Bahrein, Kuwait, Qatar and Trucial Coast.
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The file concerns all aspects of ceremonial at the Political Agency, Muscat, particularly in terms of relations between British officials and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. The papers include: Government of India regulations concerning the cost of firing salutes, 1938; rules governing ceremonia...
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Charles Crommelin, President and Governor at Bombay
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The letter is a follow up to the previous one of the 20 July 1765 [IOR/R/15/1/1, ff 74v-75] and contains the news that Carem Khaun [Karim Khan] is heading to Schirass for the summer, and the unconfirmed reports that the Sally has been taken by the Chaub [Banu Ka‘b] and a fleet of Company ships h...
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussorah [Basra]
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The letter gives the author's reasons for his recent lack of communication (a lack of boats due to Dutch ship carrying sugar), and for charging the Company for his meals (which he considers normal practice for a new settlement). He informs that the linguist has not returned from Ispahaun [Isfaha...
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Charles Crommelin, President and Governor at Bombay
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The letter gives an account of the Company's involvement in an attack with Carem Khaun [Karim Khan] on Meer Mahanna [Mīr Muhanna] at Bunderick [Bandar Rig]. It discusses the possibility of the Khan ever ridding the country of Mīr Muhanna and Shaik Soliman [Sheikh Soliman, of the Banu Ka'b tribe]...
Letter from Benjamin Jervis, East India Company Resident at Bushere [Bushire], to Peter Elwin Wrench, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra]
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The letter discusses the rise in the price of tin because of the Dutch loss at Carrack [Kharg Island] and the expected arrival of Sadoo Khaun [Sadiq Khan] from Schirass.
Letter from William Bowyear, East India Company Resident at Bushire, and his assistant John Sebastian Natter, to Henry Moore, East India Company Agent at Bussora [Basra]
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* The letter is dated 12 April 1768, but this is almost certainly a mistake and should read 12 April 1767. The letter is an attack on the conduct of former Resident, Benjamin Jervis, accusing him of granting the title of ambassador to an Englishman in Schirass [Shiraz], Edward Hercules, despite...
