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61. IOR/R/15/5/156

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/156
Title:
[Unnumbered file] Papers in Arabic
Scope & Content:
The file includes three land deeds of the date gardens, all dated 12 February 1909. The first two deeds are between the Shaikh of Kuwait Mubarak al-Sabah and Abdul Wahhab al-Qirtass, on behalf of certain members of al-Zuhair family in Basra Iraq. The third deed is between Shaikh Mubarak and Shafi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
12 Feb 1909
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

62. IOR/R/15/5/208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/208
Title:
File 4/22 I Construction of a Port in Kuwait Bay under Iraqi Control; Extension of the Iraqi Railway; Umm Qasr
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in Kuwait, Iraq, Britain and India concerning the political implications and practical logistics regarding a proposal to construct a port under Iraqi control in Kuwaiti territory (and a related proposal to link the port to Basra by rail...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1938-26 Oct 1941
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

63. IOR/R/15/5/134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/134
Title:
File 2/2 VII Contraband Questions with Iraq. (Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Director of Customs and Excise, Basra and the Political Agent, Kuwait, related to a case of a Kuwaiti nakhuda who had been fined by the customs office for smuggling goods from Kuwait. In turn, the Political Agent, Kuwait, passed the case to the Shaikh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1942-1 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

64. IOR/R/15/5/277

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/277
Title:
File 6/3 Survey of Kuwait and Neutral Zone by the Royal Air Force (also by American Navy)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Kuwait, and British Authorities in London and Iraq regarding the aerial survey of the Neutral Zone that lies between the Kuwaiti-Iraqi and Saudi Arabian borders. Several papers discuss concerns held by Saudi authorities that aerial ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Mar 1930-9 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (161 folios)

65. IOR/R/15/5/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/300
Title:
‘File 7/3 Representations by Foreign Powers on behalf of their Subjects’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with representations made to the Kuwait Political Agency by foreign powers, requesting that the British investigate complaints made by their subjects against the ruling authorities of Kuwait; it should be noted that the nationality of complainants is sometimes disputed. The...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1934-21 Apr 1943
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)

66. IOR/R/15/5/314

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/314
Title:
File 13/4 II 'American Mission in Arabia (Includes Acquisition of Land)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to the American Mission. It includes correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the following: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Dr C S G Mylrea of the American Mission, Kuwait, and Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
15 Apr 1930-17 Sep 1938
Extent:
1 file (54 folios)

67. IOR/R/15/5/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/128
Title:
File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship g...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934
Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

68. IOR/R/15/5/132

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/132
Title:
File 2/2 V Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials suggested a mixed commission representing both the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Iraqi Government, and authorized the investigation all the frontier incidents by land and by sea that had occurred between the two st...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1935-11 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 volume (255 folios)

69. IOR/R/15/5/113

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/113
Title:
‘1/1 Volume V Koweit Saudi Relations’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers concerning negotiations over the drafting of trade, Bon Voisinage and extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in an effort to lift the trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1936-20 Oct 1938
Extent:
1 volume (320 folios)

70. IOR/R/15/5/131

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/131
Title:
File 2/2 IV Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials stood as mediators between the Iraqi Government and the Shaikh of Kuwait to try and solve the smuggling issue. They discussed possible ways to persuade the Shaikh of Kuwait to agree to a friendly arrangement f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 May 1935-13 Jun 1936
Extent:
1 volume (267 folios)