"ملف XXXV/٣ الإصلاحات الإدارية في مسقط. تعيين وزير مالية بريطاني في دولة مسقط (مستر بيرترام س. توماس) ١٩٢٤ إلى ١٩٢٨" [و‎‎٤‎١] (٢٥٢/٨١)

Muscat
8/3/25.
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My dear Thomas,
The Sultan has got a house for you situated
about 80 yards behind the Consulate and with one house between
us# I have been over the house,which is a comparatively new
one,and when cleaned up will have its possibilities in the
way of being made nice#It has two main rooms on the ground
floor with a stone flagged hall between them#A weird sort of
kitchen place at the end of the hall,and the staircase leading
upstairs# There are also one or two tiny little rooms
as sculleries etc - nasty end unpleasant in their present
state.
Downstair s#
The main rooms are
x2&JbaacX3t 23* #7“ x 17* 9 M 0 lit by circular ’’lunette 1
0 windows,
la’.s" x 17 1 •0” 0
The staircase is rather narrow and not very good#
Upstairs .
Two good rooms,and a black and white tiled centre landing
(above the hall)
18’.4” x 17*.5”
23’.10 x 17’#10”
There is also a kitchen place upstairs and two bathrooms with
tiled floors#
I am having the place cleaned and white washed throughout.
n'l
There is a lot of hori^d coloured glass in the fan lights xfe
above the doors - a regular Arab touch#
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The bathrooms have the usual Arab ”macb4conlis gallery”latrine
arrangement,and there is rio outside staircase for the sweeper#’
The house being a zenana type house,I suppose.You will have to
get that fixed up on your arrival#
There is no furniture available here,and you should buy it
at Bombay and bring it with you if possible - crockery,lamps,
everything in fact# I have tried to trace the furniture Capt#