'Cyphers and Secret Documents: Safe Custody Reports and Handing Over Certificates for Secret Documents'

Content

The file contains papers relating to the safe custody and transfer by the Bahrain Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of secret and confidential publications and cyphers and codes. The file contains correspondence from the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and from other British officials, safe custody certificates, transfer certificates, and related papers. The papers include:

• papers relating to the custody of ' Field Notes on Saudi Arabia - 1935', December 1936 - September 1946, including certificates of safe custody sent to the Air Officer Commanding, British Forces in Iraq;
• papers relating to the updating of the 'Military Report on the Arabian States in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ', May - June 1941 and March 1942, including correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and the Government of India, correspondence from Major H T Hewitt, Defence Officer, Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , containing reports on defence arrangements in Bahrein [Bahrain] and Qatar, May 1941, letter from E V Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited containing a report on the oil situation in Qatar, June 1941, letter from Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain containing a report on the Bahrain naturs, May 1941, and report on the route from Sharjah to Kalba by Cornelius James Pelly, Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. on the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Sharjah, March 1942, with sketch map, folio 81;
• Foreign Office memorandum on the production of official documents, 1942.

The Arabic content of this file consists of printed text on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. of the sketch map on folio 81. This sheet appears to have been reused for drawing the map.

Extent and format

1 file (260 folios)

It is grouped into

Sketch map of Trucial Oman

2 images

Ref: IOR/R/15/2/179, f 81

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Serial numbers written in blue and red crayon (blue for sent correspondence, red for received correspondence) are present throughout the file. They refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 258 on the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are enclosed in a circle, and can be found in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. Foliation anomalies: ff. 1, 1A; ff. 3, 3A; ff. 53, 53A; ff. 185, 185A. A second incomplete foliation sequence numbered 53-250 is also present between ff. 52-245. The numbers are written in pencil, but are not circled, and appear in the same position as the main sequence.

Written in

English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/2/179

Former external reference(s)

Confidential Files: 2/10 I

History of this record

Date(s)

30 Dec 1936-24 Sep 1946 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Confidential communications

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