| Description | Typed transcript of pages 110-202 of Belgrave's diary, covering the period between 1 June and 29 December 1932, with a period on leave from 31 July to 9 September. Topics covered include the reduction of the English population on the island to about seven (3 June), the routing of the Imperial Airways flight line via Bahrain (13 June), dinner with the Shaikh at his new house beyond the Sakhrir palace, the Shaikh's ignorance of local traditions and his anecdotes about seeing the stage magicians John Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant in London (17 July), talk of an Imperial Airways landing strip at Muharraq (18 July), news of the death of the Resident Sir Hugh Biscoe (19 July), gradual replacement of Indians in the police force (23, 26 July, 12 September), Belgrave's return flight on a seaplane from Margil, Iraq, with aerial views of Bahrain (10 September), news of Shaikh Mohamed's visit to London (13 September), dire finances of the island (14 September and the realisation that 'the only thing to save Bahrain is the oil', plus work on his history book (16 September), reading J.R. Ackerley's 'Hindoo Holiday' (23 September), laid low with fever (30 September - 5 October), arrival of the first Imperial Airways plane which got stuck in the ground (6 October), arrival of Air Commodore Courtenay (8 October), death of the Shaikh's nephew Rashid bin Mohammed from consumption (23 October), water quality (9 November), a visit to the grave of Heinemann, the young pilot killed last year (20 November), arrival of the new political agent, Percy Loch, to replace Prior (29 November), visit from the political resident Trenchard Fowle (5- 12 December), the death of Shaikh Isa, ruler of Bahrain for sixty years (9 December) and the gift of a baby bear from Prior (26 December) |