IOR/R/15/2/1524

Correspondence sent to and from the Political Agency, and dealing with a miscellaneous range of day-to-day matters:

• arrangements amongst British officials and shipping agents in the Persian Gulf for the delivery, forwarding and receipt of letters, packages, furniture, motor vehicles, and other items, sent by post and steamer;
• arrangements for the financial settlement of bills;
• electrical supply and electricity running costs at the Political Agency in the early 1920s;
• an enquiry, dated 1932, from the Department of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Tanganyika Territory, relating to the transportation of livestock by dhow from Zanzibar to the Persian Gulf;
• in 1937, arrangements for the printing and distribution from Bahrain of new Bills of Health (also called Sanitary Certificates) for issue to vessels calling at Muscat;
• correspondence relating to Wilfred Patrick Thesiger’s exploration of the Empty Quarter, including a letter from Thesiger to the Political Agent at Bahrain, dated 6 May 1949, stating that he would like to give the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, Shaikh Zeid bin Sultan [Zayed bin Sulṭān Āl Nahyān], a rifle, as a token of his appreciation (f 199);
• correspondence dated 1950, relating to a Palestinian teacher applying for work with the Muscat Government, having formerly been employed by the Government of Bahrain.