Abstract: The file contains correspondence about the visits of members of the Al Khalifah to Amara in Iraq for hunting purposes. Discussion focuses on the difficulties created when requests for travel documents did not go through the proper channels.Correspondents include: Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent, Bahrain; Rupert Hay, Political Resident, Persian Gulf; Consul General, Basra.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 15; 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 also present in parallel between ff 2-13; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: This file consists of two letters exchanged between the Political Agency in Muscat and the Political Residency in Bushire regarding allegations that the British Agent at Gwadur had granted Indian visas to Persian subjects with passports not endorsed by the Persian authorities and issued Certificates of Identity to Baluchi-Persian subjects who had claimed British nationality without sufficient evidence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 6; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: The file comprises correspondence exchanged between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior), the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman), the British Government’s representative at Jedda, and officials at the Government of India and India Office in London, in tracking a journey made by Harry St John Bridger Philby from Saudi Arabia, via Dhahran, Bahrain and Karachi, to Bombay. The correspondence focuses on when might be an appropriate moment to apprehend Philby, so that he may be deported back to Britain. Proposals to apprehend Philby, who is believed to be carrying letters and articles of an anti-British bent in his luggage, in Bahrain, are abandoned due to uncertainty over whether the Persian Gulf Defence Regulation contained sufficient legal power to enable the deportation (f 11). Correspondence from the Foreign Department of the Government of India reports Philby’s detention upon his arrival at Karachi (f 16). Included in the file is a notice from J W Stafford, Chief Passport Officer in the Passport Office of the Foreign Office, dated 27 June 1940, which contains details of Philby’s appearance, his background, and instruction to impound his passport (f 20).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 22; 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 also present in parallel between ff 2-20; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to Suleiman al Baruni and his relatives.The discussion in the file concerns:Baruni's travel to Iraq and Muscathis membership of the Ibadhi sect and the esteem he was held in by both the Sultan of Muscat and Oman and the Imam of Omanhis appointment as Minister in the government of the Sultanate of Muscat and Omanarrangements for travel of members of his familyThe principal correspondents in the volume are: the Political Agent, Muscat; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; HM High Commissioner for Iraq; and officials of the Government of the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 202; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: Papers relating to twenty Somalis who arrived in Bahrain from Qatar in February 1949, claiming to be survivors of a shipwrecking off the coast of Muscat. The papers include:an account by the survivors of their shipwrecking and journey to Bahrain (f 5, f 9);correspondence exchanged between the Bahrain Political Agency and Persian Gulf Political Residency concerning the provision of maintenance for the Somalis, and possible repatriation to British Somaliland [Somalia];correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Cornelius James Pelly) and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (Charles Dalrymple Belgrave) on the increasing numbers of Somalis in Manama, and speculation that the Somalis who arrived in Bahrain had in fact travelled to Qatar to seek work at the oil company in Qatar (Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited);papers exchanged between the Bahrain Political Agency and the Secretariat of Hargeisa [Hargeysa] in the Somaliland Protectorate, for a passport application submitted by a Somali. The papers include a bond and affidavit, both bearing British Somaliland stamps (f 21, f 23).Some of the correspondence in the file is in Arabic with English translation.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 33; 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 2-18; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file concerns relations between the governments of the United Kingdom and Persia (also referred to as Iran), specifically in terms of relations between Persia and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf that were under British protection.The file mainly contains correspondence from British Government officials, notably the Foreign Office, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; and HM Minister at Tehran.The papers cover: passport and visa regulations governing entry into Persia for citizens of Arab states on the littoral of the Persian Gulf; the treatment of subjects of those states (including the Kingdom of the Hedjaz [Hejaz], 1923) as British-protected persons in the matter of passports; the Persian claim to the Arab states on the littoral of the Persian Gulf, especially Bahrein [Bahrain]; the British response to an attempt by the Shaikh of Debai (Said bin Maktum) [Sa‘id bin Maktūm Āl Maktūm, Ruler of Dubai] to impose restrictions on the use of Persian dress by Persian citizens in Dubai (folios 281-288); 'interference' (boarding, searches) with Arab sailing vessels by ships of the Persian Navy; and the response of the Royal Navy to Persian interference in Arab shipping. The Arab states concerned are principally Bahrain, Koweit [Kuwait], the Trucial Coast, and Muscat and Oman.The French language content of the papers consists of a single item of diplomatic correspondence (folio 297).The file also contains copies of earlier papers dated 1892-1900, and 1914-15; there are no papers dated 1919-22.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 395; 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 2-393; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: The file concerns the refusal of the Government of Persia (later referrred to as Iran) to issue visas for travel to Persia to holders of British passports bearing endorsements for Koweit [Kuwait] and Bahrain. The issue arose because of Persia's claim to sovereignty over Bahrain. This refusal by the Iranian authorities was later exetended (1938) to British passports bearing endorsements for the Trucial Coast and Muscat. The file also contains papers dated 1947 concerning the issue by the Political Agent, Bahrain of visas for Eritrea.The principal correspondents are the Foreign Office, and HM Minister, Tehran (later HM Ambassador to Iran).The Persian language content of the file consists of a single form.The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: this file consists of two physical parts. The foliation sequence commences at the first folio of part one (ff 1-129) and terminates at the last folio of part two (ff 130-255); 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 1-255; these numbers are printed, and are not circled. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers of the parts.
Abstract: This file contains correspondence regarding a request by a Mr V Subbiah (various spellings throughout) for a British visa to go to France from Pondicherry. Related matters of discussion include the following: request and complaints from V Subbiah regarding his British visa application; an enquiry about Subbiah's nationality; the integrity and validity of Subbiah's French passport; Subbiah's political opinions on the British Government of India; Subbiah's election as a representative of the French Establishment in India.The file features the following principal correspondents: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Commonwealth Relations Office, the Foreign Office; the British Consulate General, Pondicherry.The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: The file's contents are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
Abstract: The file contains papers regarding Leonid Tour-Pavlikovsky,a Russian citizen travelling under a false Romanian passport with the nameGeorge Woodward.Much of the file consists of the subject’s statement toBombay police explaining how and why he obtained the passport and detailing hissubsequent travels.The remainder of the file includes a requestfrom Herbert Aubrey Francis Metcalfe, Foreign Secretary in the Government ofIndia, for verification of the subject’s movements in Persia, and replies fromthe British Consulate, Shiraz, and Vice-Consulate, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr].Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description (used for referencing) commences at f 30, and terminates at f 44, as it is part of a larger physical volume; these numbers are written in pencil, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 83 of 1847, dated 30 September 1847. The enclosure is dated 7 August 1847.The primary document is a letter from Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], to the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, for the information of the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department. Kemball reports that, according to a letter from Lord Cowley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], to Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, HM Consul and the Honourable Company’s Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, the Ottoman Porte [Government of the Ottoman Empire] has issued instructions to the Governor of Baghdad to suspend the operation of the new passport code regulations, as far as British subjects are concerned, for one year. An extract of Lord Cowley’s letter is enclosed.Physical description: 1 item (4 folios)
Abstract: This item comprises copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 87 of 1847, dated 13 October 1847. The enclosure is dated 26 August 1847.The primary document is a despatch from Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball, Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq] (acting for Henry Creswicke Rawlinson who had taken a leave of absence), forwarding for the information of the Secretary to the Government of India and the Secretary to the Government, Bombay, copies of his despatches to Lord Cowley, HM Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople [Istanbul], with relevant enclosures, on the ‘affairs of the Baghdad Pachalic [Pashalik]’.The documents notably cover the following matters:British attempts to verify the authenticity of the communication from the Mootsellim [Mutasallim] of Bussorah [Governor of Basra] to Sheikh Mahomed ben Khaleefa [Shaikh Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain] inviting him to place himself under the protection of the Turkish [Ottoman] flag, including a corroborative document forwarded to Rawlinson by Major Samuel Hennell, Resident in the Persian GulfReactions of the independent Arab rulers of the Gulf regarding the appearance of an Ottoman brig of war [in the Gulf] and the alleged the claims by the Turkish officers on board of the intention to replace British influence in the Gulf with Turkish influence. Included are reports by John Croft Hawkins, Commodore Commandant Indian Navy, Squadron in the Persian Gulf, on the HC [Honourable Company] steam frigate
Queen, and the Agent at Shargah [Sharjah], regarding: the brig’s movements; the concerns expressed by Shaikh Mucktoom [Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāsah of Dubai]; and the alleged ‘exultation’ of Sultan Ben Suggur [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Ruler of Sharjah and Ra’s al-Khaymah, Al Jazirah Al Hamra and Ar Rams, variously] at the potential loss of British influence (ff 263-268)Reports that Nejib Pasha [Muḥammad Najīb Pāshā, Governor of Baghdad] plans to survey ‘the old and ruined canals’ of Abooghraib [Abu Ghraib], Scindreeah [Sindria?] and Mahmoodiah [Mahmudiyah?], in order to repair them and bring the adjoining land back into cultivation and improve irrigationThe disturbed state of the country in Moosul [Mosul] due ‘principally to the internal dissensions in the large tribe of the Shammar [Šammar] Arabs’ (f 269)The question of whether British and Russian subjects travelling in the Turkish [Ottoman] dominions will be subject to new passport regulation fees, and Kemball’s scepticism, in communications with Colonel Justin Sheil, HM Minister at Tehran, regarding Nejib Pasha’s intention to exempt ‘native Englishmen’, taking into consideration the passport fees recently levied on Rawlinson and his party for the latter’s leave of absenceKemball’s scepticism, communicated to Sheil, regarding Nejib Pasha’s intentions of fulfilling instructions from the Turkish Government for the removal of a Turkish guard vessel from her anchorage off the mouth of the Haffer [Haffar] Canal to a station higher up the stream, and intention to escalate his dissatisfaction to the Porte via HM Minister at Constantinople (ff 272-273).Physical description: 1 item (20 folios)
Abstract: This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 100 of 1847, dated 30 November 1847. The enclosures are numbered 3-16 and are dated 6 October to 26 November 1847.The enclosures consist of resolutions of the Government of Bombay on despatches from the Secret Committee, and letters from the Chief Secretary of the Government of Bombay, Arthur Malet, forwarding copies of despatches from the Secret Committee and copies of other letters, to the following recipients: the Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General, Henry Miers Elliot; the Resident in the Persian Gulf, Major Samuel Hennell; the Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia [Ottoman Iraq], Lieutenant Arnold Burrowes Kemball; and HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Persia [Iran], Lieutenant-Colonel Justin Sheil.Enclosure Nos. 3-5 listed in the abstract of contents are not included in this item (a note dated 30 October 1906 states that they are missing). They are listed as being: a resolution on a despatch from the Secret Committee; a letter from Malet to the Political Superintendent of Sawunt Warree [Savantvadi or Sawantwadi], requesting his opinion on the subject of extending to the refugee 'insurgents' now in Goa territory the clemency applied for on their behalf by the Government of Portugal; and a letter from Malet to Elliot, forwarding copies of the despatch from the Secret Committee and the letter to the Political Superintendent of Sawunt Warree.Enclosure Nos. 6-16 relate to the following:The Secret Committee informing the Government of Bombay that the Sublime Porte [the Government of the Ottoman Empire] has abandoned all intention of enforcing the ‘objectionable’ passport regulations recently promulgated in the Pachalic of Bagdad [Pashalik of Baghdad] towards British ‘Mahomedan’ [Muslim] subjects arriving at Bagdad, and the Government of Bombay requesting the Acting Political Agent in Turkish Arabia to state whether or not it is the intention of the Turkish Government to enforce these regulations in the case of ‘Hindoo’ [Hindu] or other British subjects who are not ‘Mahomedan’ travelling from India to Turkish ArabiaThe Secret Committee stating that it is their intention to pass no decision upon the proposed change to the future administration of Aden until they hear further from ‘His Lordship’ [the Governor-General of India?] on the subjectA conference between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Sheik of Bahrein [Shaikh of Bahrain], Mahomed bin Khuleefa [Muḥammad bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah], in May 1847, regarding the latter’s fear of an attack from a number of disaffected subjects who had settled on the Island of Kenn [Kish] on the Persian Coast, and Major Hennell soliciting authority, in case of necessity, to intimate to the Uttoobee [Banī ʿUtbah] settlers in Kenn that any attack made by them from that island upon the islands of Bahrein would be resisted by the British Naval Force in the Persian Gulf.Physical description: 1 item (20 folios)