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71. IOR/R/15/5/94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/94
Title:
'File 1/C Volume I. Miscellaneous'.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, receipts and notes on various topics concerning the Kuwait Political Agency, January 1921 to August 1921. An index of topics contained in the volume is listed on folio 6. Topics discussed in the volume include: The presentat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1919-30 Aug 1921
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

72. IOR/R/15/5/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/57
Title:
File XX/9 THE AJMAN.
Scope & Content:
The file contains a set of manuscript notes by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox) on the Ajman [‘Ajmān] tribe. The notes include genealogical charts ('pedigrees'); estimates of numbers of fighting men; references to allowances received by shaikhs; and a table giving the di...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

73. IOR/R/15/5/181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/181
Title:
File 4/3 I Purchase of Saluting Gun, Aircraft, etc, by the Shaikh of Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the supply of arms and ammunition to the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. Contrary to the file's title, the majority of this correspondence concerns the Shaikh's purchase of several Lewis Machine Guns (and am...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1929-4 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (221 folios)

74. IOR/R/15/5/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/183
Title:
File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence. Specifically, the majorit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 May 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (183 folios)

75. IOR/R/15/5/187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/187
Title:
File 4/7 II Shaikh of Kuwait's Visit to Arab States, Europe , Etc
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding proposed and actual trips abroad that were made by the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. This includes details of plans that were made for trips to Egypt, India, Iraq and England that do not appear to have ultimately materialised, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1937-31 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (171 folios)

76. IOR/R/15/5/21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/21
Title:
File 9/4 ‘Political Agency Koweit. IX/4. Civil Cases from 1909’
Scope & Content:
The file contains case correspondence, including several witness statements and a record of hearing proceedings held at the British Political Agency in Kuwait. These case papers relate to the investigation and resolution of 27 individual claims that were submitted to the Political Agent, Kuwait ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, and Tamil
Date Range:
29 Sep 1908-18 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 file (299 folios)

77. IOR/R/15/5/275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/275
Title:
File 6/2 I Foreign Aircraft (K.L.M. Line)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the passage of foreign aircraft through the Persian Gulf's various principalities. Most of the papers relate to Italian, Dutch or French passenger aircraft en route to South and East Asia, as well as new routes by Iraqi and Syrian Airways within the Mid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1932-11 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (192 folios)

78. IOR/R/15/5/214

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/214
Title:
File 4/26 Izzat Jaffer
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the activities and standing of Izzat Jaafar ['Izzat Jafar], the Secretary of the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. Much of the correspondence concerns allegations that Jafar was an agent of the Italian Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1 Apr 1940-24 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)

79. IOR/R/15/5/18, f 148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/18, f 148
Title:
Pedigree of the Subah Family.
Scope & Content:
A pedigree of the Al-Subah ruling family of Kuwait. It starts with Shaikh Subah, and then gives details of six further generations of male members of the family, with occasional notes on age, date of death, work, and place of residence.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Apr 1908
Extent:
1 item (1 folio)

80. IOR/R/15/5/4

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/4
Title:
‘No. I/34. Launch establishment’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence concerning employees of the Kuwait Political Agency motor launch. The bulk of the file’s correspondence concerns Cyril Bayer, Inspector in general charge of the launch, and relates to his role, his failing health, subsequent retirement to India, financial provision for him in reti...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
19 Feb 1926-23 Sep 1944
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)