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1. IOR/R/15/2/1492-1594

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1492-1594
Title:
File 16: Miscellaneous
Scope & Content:
The bulk of the surviving Miscellaneous subject files is made up of routine correspondence, exchanged with a number of organisations, many of which are of a governmental or commercial nature: the American Mission in Bahrain (IOR/R/15/2/1493-1494); the Bahrain office of the shipping agent Mesopot...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
1917-1954
Extent:
102 files (13,197 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/1516

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1516
Title:
File 16/20 Trucial Coast: daily news reports, Mar-Jun 1929
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1929-30 Jun 1929
Extent:
1 file

3. IOR/R/15/2/1507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1507
Title:
‘File 16/11 III Miscellaneous correspondence’
Scope & Content:
Routine correspondence received at and sent from the Bahrain Political Agency. The file is a direct chronological continuation of ‘File 16/11 II Miscellaneous correspondence’ (IOR/R/15/2/1506). The correspondence covers a diverse range of topics of a routine nature, including: passport and trave...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Feb 1944-11 Dec 1950
Extent:
1 file (306 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/R/15/2/1557

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1557
Title:
‘File 16/47 Correspondence re:– Gramophone Record for Bahrain Police’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence exchanged between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch) and representatives in Calcutta [Kolkata] and London of His Master’s Voice Gramophone Company Limited, concerning the purchase by the Political Agent of a gramophone recording of Cock o’ the Nor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1934-22 Jun 1934
Extent:
1 file (21 folios)

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. 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)

10. 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)