'File 14/5 Correspondence regarding Postal arrangements at Shargah and Dubai'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'File 14/5 Correspondence regarding Postal arrangements at Shargah and Dubai'
- Date:
- 1932/1940
- Description:
- Abstract: The file contains correspondence and telegrams discussing the proposal to open a Post Office in Sharjah and Dubai. The Ruler of Sharjah requests that the name of Sharjah is printed on the stamps. The file also contains agreements with Imperial Airways for the delivery of mail, and arrangements for a suitable office at Sharjah. Whilst the Ruler of Dubai is initially against the opening of a Post Office in his town, further discussions develop in 1938 for the opening of a Post Office in Dubai (sketch on folio 208).The principal correspondents are: the Ruler of Sharjah (Shaikh Sulṭān bin Saqr Āl Qāsimī); the Ruler of Dubai (Shaikh Saʻīd bin Maktūm bin Hasher Āl Maktūm); Imperial Airways; the Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited; the Superintendent of Post Offices, Lower Sind and Persian Gulf Division, at Karachi; the Director of Post and Telegraphs at Karachi; the Residency Agent at Sharjah (Khan Bahadur Isa bin Latif, and from 1936 Khan Sahib Husain bin Hasan 'Amad); the Political Agency at Kuwait; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and the Political Agent at Bahrain.There is some correspondence in Arabic, with English translation, with the Residency Agent at Sharjah, the Ruler of Sharjah and the Ruler of Dubai.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 268; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 4-235 and ff 236-267; these numbers are written in a combination of pencil and red ink, but are either partially circled or not circled.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Postal services
- Geographic region:
- Sharjah
- Rights:
- المُلكية العامة
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000099_ar
81055/vdc_100000000282.0x000099_en
IOR/R/15/2/1418
IOR/R/15/2/1418