| Description | Typed transcript of pages 1-36 of Belgrave's diary, covering the period between his arrival in Bahrain on 31 March 1926 until 7 June 1926. Topics covered include his initial impressions of the island and its people - such as the Political Agent Major Clive Daly, local American missionaries, Director of Customs Claude de Grenier, the ruler of Bahrain Sheikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, his brother Abdulla and their elderly father Sir Isa bin Khalifa, Australian oil engineer Major Holmes, - his first experience of the local courts in the company of Daly (5 April), the end of Ramadan (13 April), taking Arabic lessons, attitudes to local food and drink, the arrival of their wedding presents (3 May), dinner with pearl merchant Haj Abdel Rahman al Zayani (3 June) and the departure of Mrs Daly (7 June). |