Includes: minutes from Alan Lennox-Boyd, Secretary of State for the Colonies [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; papers by Henry Drummond-Wolff on the rule of reciprocity and world trade; minute from Lieutenant-Colonel David Smiley [Chief of Staff of the Muscat Armed Forces] on his success in the Jebel Akhkar, asking if the Sultan could be persuaded to return to Muscat [Masqat]; memorandum by Smiley on the political and military situation in Oman.