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‘No. I/34. Launch establishment’ [‎38r] (75/212)

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The record is made up of 1 file (105 folios). It was created in 19 Feb 1926-23 Sep 1944. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the 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. .

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BY AIR MfcIL .
No.
POLITICAL AGENCY An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. ,
KOWaIT.
Dated the 30th. June 1936.
Dear Mr. Bayer, fry
I have just reoclved your letter of the 22 nd.
June. Please thank your mother Ibr her kind remarks
and reassure her again that every thing we can do here
for her son is being done. He is I am glad to say
very much better and oan now sit up and back again in
bed without aid and also lift and lower the arm and leg
/
which were paralysed.
He is still in bed and does not walk yet, but
I hope will do so quite soon.
I quite agree with you that it would be best
xOr him to go to Cochin and your care, so does the doctor
here, and I am sending him on the steamer tS.S.Baroda
tish India ^teaiiiship Line leaving here on or about
the 8 th. July, reaching Bombay on or about the 22nd.July
whence he will take Padrass Express for Arkonum and
Cochin.
I suggest that you meet your brother at Bombay
so that there is no inconvenience in train. I shall send
with him his servant who has through out his illness,
behaved very attentively to him, a Kuwaiti called Abbas,
and shall pay for his return fare from Cochin before he
starts out.
Your brother is luckily friendly with the Agent
of the Steamship line here, Ifir. Fernandez, who will be
able to make special arrangements for him anl see him on
board here. I shall also specially recommend the

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Correspondence concerning employees of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. motor launch. The bulk of the file’s correspondence concerns Cyril Bayer, Inspector in general charge of the launch, and relates to his role, his failing health, subsequent retirement to India, financial provision for him in retirement, and death in 1938. The file includes:

  • a copy of an office order entitled ‘Care of “Agency Launch” and “Sailing Boats”’, outlining Bayer’s duties as Inspector for the launch (ff 13-14);
  • notices dated 1943 relating to the status and movements of the Kuwait launch, the Hugh Biscoe (ff 81-83);
  • a list of motor launch equipment transferred between launch nakhudas (f 97).

Principal correspondents in the file include: 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. at Kuwait; the Inspector of the Kuwait Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. launch (Cyril Bayer); Cyril Bayer’s brother, Maurice P Bayer.

Several of the file’s papers are in Arabic.

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1 file (105 folios)
Arrangement

The file’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The file notes at the end of the file (ff 102-106) mirror the chronological arrangement.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 106; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-106; these numbers are also written in pencil, and, where circled, are crossed through.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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