‘File 22/7 Fujairah’

Title:

‘File 22/7 Fujairah’

Date:

1951/1951

Description:

Abstract: The file comprises correspondence relating to the Sheikh of Fujairah’s [Muḥammad bin Ḥamad Āl Sharqi] desire to enter into a treaty agreement with the British Government, thus putting his territory on a footing similar to those of the other Trucial Coast states. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast (sometimes referred to as the British Agency at Sharjah: H D Michell; Arthur John Wilton); the Political Agent at Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly); and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel William Rupert Hay).The file includes: correspondence between the Political Officer on the Trucial Coast and the Political Agent at Bahrain, relating to the Sheikh’s repeated requests for a treaty with and recognition from the British Government (ff 20-22); the Political Resident’s referral of the matter to Geoffrey Warren Furlonge of the Foreign Office in London (f 18), and Furlonge’s reply that the British Government would be willing to conclude an agreement with the Sheikh of Fujairah, provided the Sultan of Muscat was informed out of courtesy (ff 16-17); further correspondence relating to: the Political Officer’s attempt to make contact with the Sheikh of Fujairah, who, it transpires, cannot be reached by sea without ‘a walk through five or six miles through hostile or at least potentially hostile (Kalba) territory’ (f 2), and an offer received by the Sheikh of Fujairah from the Peter Pan Philatelic Company, to set up postal services in his territory (f 5).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 23; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-22; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Treaties
Independence

Geographic region:

Trucial Coast
Fujairah

Rights:

رخصة حكومة مفتوحة

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0001a6_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0001a6_en
IOR/R/15/2/943
IOR/R/15/2/943

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