IOR/R/15/2/1506

Routine correspondence received at and sent from the Bahrain Political Agency. The principal correspondents are: the Political Agent; representatives of the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave; Claud Cranbrook Lewis DeGrenier).

Most of the correspondence relates to a miscellany of trivial matters, ranging from the forwarding of mail, lost swimming caps, an urgent need for cooks, and broken-down refrigerators. Matters of greater import include:

• applications and references from a number of individuals, who write to the Political Agent in search of employment;
• correspondence relating to the sale of unwanted items, including an oil barge from Henjam [Jazīreh-ye Hengām], items belonging to the former Vice-Consul at Ahwaz [Ahvāz], a motor launch belonging to the Vice Consulate at Khorramshahr, and motor cars belonging to Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban;
• correspondence from manufacturing and trading companies in Britain (Moore, Eady & Murcott Goode Limited; Hanger, Watson and Harris Limited) and India (Cine Agency India) relating to imports into Bahrain;
• in 1932, arrangements to send a horse, a gift for King Bin Sa’ud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd), from Bahrain to Kuwait by sea (ff 35-39);
• also in 1932, information relating to the changes of names of various towns and cities in Iran (ff 94-95);
• a request from the New Zealand philatelist Raymond James George Collins, for the return of ‘flown covers’ (stamped envelopes sent to Bahrain, ff 141-142);
• correspondence regarding recommended grasses for growing to prevent the advance of sand dunes, and a letter written by DeGrenier, containing recommendations for the import of various seeds and plants to Bahrain, to assist in improving Bahrain’s climate (ff 228-230);
• the dispatch by launch of three crates containing whisky, gin and beer, from Bahrain to the Political Agency in Kuwait, and the subsequent loss of the launch and its cargo at sea (ff 318-325).