IOR/R/15/2/179

The file contains papers relating to the safe custody and transfer by the Bahrain Political Agency of secret and confidential publications and cyphers and codes. The file contains correspondence from the Political Agent, Bahrain and from other British officials, safe custody certificates, transfer certificates, and related papers. The papers include:

• papers relating to the custody of 'Field Notes on Saudi Arabia - 1935', December 1936 - September 1946, including certificates of safe custody sent to the Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq;
• papers relating to the updating of the 'Military Report on the Arabian States in the Persian Gulf', May - June 1941 and March 1942, including correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Government of India, correspondence from Major H T Hewitt, Defence Officer, Persian Gulf, containing reports on defence arrangements in Bahrein [Bahrain] and Qatar, May 1941, letter from E V Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited containing a report on the oil situation in Qatar, June 1941, letter from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain containing a report on the Bahrain naturs, May 1941, and report on the route from Sharjah to Kalba by Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent on the Trucial Coast, Sharjah, March 1942, with sketch map, folio 81;
• Foreign Office memorandum on the production of official documents, 1942.

The Arabic content of this file consists of printed text on the verso of the sketch map on folio 81. This sheet appears to have been reused for drawing the map.