IOR/L/PS/12/122

The file contains correspondence, notes, supply notes, and an air consignment note, relating to the supply of maps to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf.

It includes correspondence between Trenchard Craven William Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and John Gilbert Laithwaite, India Office, and between Laithwaite and Arthur Robert Hinks and others at the Royal Geographical Society, regarding Fowle’s requests to be sent copies of the map in Bertram Thomas’s ‘Arabia Felix’, and the map in Philby’s ‘Rub al Khali’. It also includes correspondence between Fowle and M J Clauson, India Office, and between Clauson and Hinks, concerning Fowle’s request for three additional copies of Bertram Thomas’s map to be sent to himself at the Residency, Bushire, and to the Political Agents at Bahrain and Muscat. This correspondence is dated 27 November 1934 to 28 December 1936.

Correspondence and other papers dated 27 May 1940 to 9 May 1946, relate to the supply of a complete set of the charts of the Persian Gulf, up to and including the Shatt al Arab, and copies of replacements of charts which may be issued from time to time, to Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf. These papers include a telegram from Prior to the Secretary of State for India, and correspondence between J P Gibson, India Office, and the Superintendent of the Admiralty Charts Supplies Division.

The file does not contain any papers for the period between 29 December 1936 to 26 May 1940.