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IOR/R/15/2/1759
- Record Id:
- 040-000230103
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x0001ee
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028309950.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/1759
- Title:
- File 31/2 SUPPLY
- Scope & Content:
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The file contains correspondence related to the purchase of books by the Political Agency at Bahrain, subscriptions to newspapers and periodicals. The documents in the file are advertisements, orders for books and periodicals, cheques, and receipts of payment.
The principal correspondents are: The Times; The Times Book Club; F P Baker & Co Limited; Durrant's Press Cuttings; Luzac & Company and various printers and booksellers in the United Kingdom; and the Political Agent at Bahrain.
The documents in the file date from 19 December 1934 to 17 May 1937. The file contained notes from a later file on 'Supply of Books and Periodicals' (after folio 10); these notes, which refer to documents from 22 July 1945 to 7 December 1950, have been removed and re-housed at the end of IOR/R/15/2/1761.
There are some documents in Arabic within the file: a letter in Arabic and English, to the Lebanese newspaper Al Nida; receipts from a book shop in Bahrain.
- 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
037-000229279
038-000230101
040-000230103 - 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/15/2/963-1823 : Bahrain Agency, English Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/1758-1763 : File 31 Books and Publications
IOR/R/15/2/1759 : File 31/2 SUPPLY - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0008]/037-000229279[0027]/038-000230101[0002]/040-000230103
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (353 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x0001ee
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1934
- End Date:
- 1950
- Date Range:
- 19 Dec 1934-7 Dec 1950
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- The foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 355 (anomalies: 98a, 176a, 203a, 213a, 224a). These numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top write corner of the recto side of each folio.
- Former External References:
- English Office Files: 31/2
- Arrangement:
- The papers in the file are arranged chronologically. There are file notes at the end of the file, on folios 324-354. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)