‘File 16/1 II Correspondence with the American Mission’

Title:

‘File 16/1 II Correspondence with the American Mission’

Date:

1945/1948

Description:

Abstract: Correspondence between the Political Agency in Bahrain and the American Mission at Bahrain (including the American Mission Hospital) relating to three separate matters:an application made in May 1945 by Dr William Harold Storm of the American Mission Hospital, to travel to Hassa [al-Aḥsā’] with members of his staff, to treat members of the Amir’s family at Hassa Oasis (ff 2-4);a request, dated April 1947, for an employee of the American Mission to receive 3,000 French francs from relatives in Dakar, Senegal (ff 5-6);a request, dated April 1948, made through the Commonwealth Relations Office (and taken over by the Foreign Office) for three COI (Central Office of Information) films to be sent to the American Mission at Bahrain. The three films ( Your Children’s Ears, Your Children’s Eyesand Your Children’s Teeth) were supplied to the Mission on indefinite loan (ff 7-8).The first page of office notes (f 9) refers to correspondence not in the file: correspondence dated 1945 relating to an allowance paid to Dr (Paul Wilberforce) Harrison of the American Mission, who acts as medical attendant to the Agency.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 11; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Public information
Missionary societies
Medical treatment
Medical missionary work
Central Office of Information, United Kingdom

Geographic region:

Hassa

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000282.0x0000e5_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x0000e5_en
IOR/R/15/2/1494
IOR/R/15/2/1494

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