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him to sign the same at the "bottom of the sheet if he agrees
to accept this payment for such option, ani return me one
copy by post and let him keep the other and please explain
to him that what you are now paying for is not for the red
ozide itself out for his undertaking that if my representative
says, in November, that I shell want the oxide, then, I can
have it, if I pay him for it, what was arranged, in 1923,on
the same matter between himself and Mes s rs.Strick •
If business results from these negotiations,it will
be necessary for me, always to have in the Persian Gulf,an
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Agent who will attend to the business for me*
I shall instruct my representative to ask you if
you would wish to act thus as my Agent and to arrange with
you as to what terms and conditions should be come to between
us - he will also arrange the payment to be made to you for
acting for me now, upon the business which I am now asking
you to undertake for me.
In regard to the expenses which you will be
incurring in connection with your journey to Sharjah and
the payment to bo now made to the Sheik, it is many years
since I was in the Persian Gulf and I do not know the present
condition of affairs there. Will you please telegraph to me,
what you estimate it will cost, and I will arrange a
telegraphic transfer of funds to you, through the Eastern
Bank at Bahrein, so that there may be no delay in proceeding
with the business.
Please telegraph me to; Bayldon, Henley-on-Thames,
and when writing use the Air Mail to save delay, and please
see that the matter is talked of as little as possible, as I
should prefer it net to be generally known that negotiations
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were in progress.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Yasuf Kanoo r C.I.E. (Sd.) j R.C.Bayldon.
Bahrein.