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1. IOR/R/15/2/588-600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/588-600
Title:
File 19 Travellers and Tourists
Scope & Content:
The confidential subject series, entitled Travellers and Tourists, comprises files pertaining to the visits of a variety of travellers and dignitaries – both British and foreign – to the Gulf region, or to specific places along the Arab coast of the Gulf, usually Bahrain. Most of the files are de...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1931-1950
Extent:
13 files (466 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/596

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/596
Title:
‘19/9 Mlle. CORBIAU’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns finding a temporary home in Bahrain for a female Belgian artist named Mademoiselle Corbiau who wishes to visit there to earn money by painting portraits. The correspondents in the file include: Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concession Limited, Bahrain; Cornelius James Pelly,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Jul 1945-19 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/600
Title:
‘NAWAB OF BHOPAL'S VISIT THROUGH BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent at Bahrain, and Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Crawshaw Galloway, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bahrain, concerning a stopover by the Nawab of Bhopal, Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Hamidullah Khan, in Bahrain in Septe...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Sep 1948-8 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/589

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/589
Title:
‘19/2 Gerhard Augustus Frederick Briesewick - A German Student’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the activities of a German named Gerhard Augusta Frederick Briesenick believed to be a student of Berlin University, travelling to India via the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. The file contains correspondence between Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 May 1933-8 Jun 1933
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/588

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/588
Title:
‘19/1 VISIT OF SCHOOL TEACHERS AND PUPILS TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns educational visits to Bahrain, including a visit of six Iraqi teachers to Bahrain in 1933 (ff 2-9); a visit of Kuwait teachers and twenty-seven schoolboys and their possible interest in visiting the California-Arabian Standard Oil (CASCO) camp at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in February...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1933-1 Apr 1941
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/593

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/593
Title:
‘19/5 SHUNKICHI NOMURA - JAPANESE OIL BROKER’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns a Japanese oil broker named Shunkichi Nomura; his intention to travel from Kabul to Iraq; the possibility he may be acting for the Japanese Government; and his eventual abandonment of plans to travel to Iraq. The file contains correspondence between Captain Everard Huddleston G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Aug 1933-25 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (7 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/595

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/595
Title:
‘19/8 PRINCE AHMAD TAWHID AND JAMAL PASHA’
Scope & Content:
This file contains one letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain, to Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, dated 1 November 1931. The letter concerns the visit to Bahrain in 1931 of His Highness Prince Ahma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1931
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/594
Title:
'19/6 MRS. HOWARD CHITTER'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to the attempted visit to Bahrain and Kuwait by Winifred Howard-Clitty, a writer of children’s books, in the winter of 1933/34. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieu...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Nov 1933-3 May 1934
Extent:
1 file (70 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/598

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/598
Title:
‘19/11 MR. FELIX VALYI. MR FELIX VAYLI’
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence from the British Consulate General at Bushire and the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning the activities of Felix Valyi, a Hungarian Orientalist. In particular, are details of his plan for a 'world university' in Greece and a 'Council of Higher Learning in the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1946-16 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/2/597

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/597
Title:
‘19/10 VISITS OF FOREIGN NOTABILITIES TO BAHRAIN’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and papers relating to visits to the Persian Gulf by foreign dignitaries. Correspondents in the file include the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and the Political Agents at Bahrain and Kuwait. The file includes: correspondence relating to the visit to B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Dec 1935-30 Oct 1948
Extent:
1 file (90 folios)