'Cyphers and Secret Documents: Safe Custody Reports and Handing Over Certificates for Secret Documents'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'Cyphers and Secret Documents: Safe Custody Reports and Handing Over Certificates for Secret Documents'
- Date:
- 1936/1946
- Description:
- The file contains papers relating to the safe custody and transfer by the Bahrain Political Agency of secret and confidential publications and cyphers and codes. The file contains correspondence from the Political Agent, 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', May - June 1941 and March 1942, including correspondence between the Political Agent, Bahrain and the Government of India, correspondence from Major H T Hewitt, Defence Officer, Persian Gulf, 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 on the Trucial Coast, 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 of the sketch map on folio 81. This sheet appears to have been reused for drawing the map.1 file (260 folios)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.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 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.
- Language:
- English
Arabic - Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Confidential communications
- Extent:
- 1 file (260 folios)
- Rights:
- Open Government Licence
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000392_ar
81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000392_en
IOR/R/15/2/179 - Is part of:
- British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers