IOR/R/15/2/1546

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, office supplies, repairs to Agency equipment, management of Agency staff, office practice, and management of the Agency’s (and Political Agent’s) workload. Many of the notes are circulated to other Agency departments, and bear abbreviations and signatures for the English Office (‘E.O.’), Confidential Office (‘C.O.’), Vernacular Office (‘V.O.’) and Indian Assistant’s Office (‘I.A.’).

The file also contains papers and statements relating to the theft, in 1937, of clothing belonging to the Political Agent’s servant (ff 65-69; also covered in ‘File 16/45 Cases of certain thefts from the Political Agency, Bahrain’ (IOR/R/15/2/1555)), and a fire in the Confidential Office, also in 1937 (ff 71-76).