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IOR/R/15/2/592
- Record Id:
- 040-000228876
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0003bf
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100024508413.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/592
- Title:
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‘19/4 LADY DOROTHY MILLS AND OTHERS’
- Scope & Content:
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This file concerns a proposed and actual visits to the Persian Gulf by the writer Lady Dorothy Mills to countries in the Middle East in 1932 for the purpose of collecting suitable material for her literary work, with permission granted to her to travel to Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait, but not the Trucial Coast (ff 7-11); and Lady Stokes, widow of Sir Wilfred Stokes, and Miss Hastings, daughter of Colonel Sir George Hastings, to Bahrain in 1937 (ff 12-14).
Correspondents in this file include: Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain; and Sir Courtenay Latimer, the British Resident at Rajkot.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000228236
037-000228401
038-000228871
040-000228876 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/2 : Political Agency, Bahrain
IOR/R/15/2/139-916 : Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/588-600 : File 19 Travellers and Tourists
IOR/R/15/2/592 : ‘19/4 LADY DOROTHY MILLS AND OTHERS’ - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0003]/037-000228401[0021]/038-000228871[0005]/040-000228876
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (15 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0003bf
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1932
- End Date:
- 1937
- Date Range:
- 29 Jan 1932-3 Mar 1937
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 7-13; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.
- Former External References:
- Confidential File: 19/4
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. File notes appear at the rear of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Mills, Dorothy Rachel Melissa, traveller and novelist, 1889-1959
Political Resident, Persian Gulf, 1822-1971
Resident for the Western India States Agency, Rajkot, 1924-1944
Stokes, Irene Theodora, née Ionides, wife of Sir Frederick William Scott Stokes, 1875-1972 - Subjects:
- Authors
Travellers
Women - Places:
- Kuwait, Middle East, Asia
Muscat, Arabian Peninsula, Asia
