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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/170-178
Title:: File 3: Kuwait/Iran Relations
Scope & Content:: The Kuwait/Iran relations sub-sub-series concerns Kuwait's and Britain's relations with Persia (also referred to as Iran in some of the correspondence). Three of the files relate to cases of Kuwaiti sailing boats being seized, and in some cases detained, by the Persian authorities. Other matter...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, and Farsi
Date Range:: 1928-1949
Extent:: 9 files and volumes (1308 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/179-235
Title:: File 4: Kuwait State
Scope & Content:: The Kuwait State files contain correspondence regarding a number of different topics that are related to the development of the state of Kuwait, the running of its government, political reform and Kuwait's relations with its neighbours and Britain. These files largely contain correspondence bet...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:: 1921-1949
Extent:: 57 files (6,644 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/273-292
Title:: File 6: Aviation
Scope & Content:: This series contains files relating to the establishment, legal regulation and logistical operation of both military and civilian aircraft, air routes and air facilities in and around Kuwait and the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1929-1949
Extent:: 20 files (3,297 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/293-307
Title:: File 7: Judicial
Scope & Content:: The Judicial Files relate to the judicial functions of the Kuwait Political Agency over British Protected Persons, as defined by the Kuwait Order in Council. IOR/R/15/1/294-297 are concerned with the drafting of the original (1925) Order in Council, and subsequent reissues in 1935 and 1949; thes...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 23 Feb 1919-14 Dec 1949
Extent:: 15 files (1175 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/311 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 9: Slave Trade
Scope & Content:: The Slave Trade sub-sub-series consists of one file containing correspondence relating to the slave trade in the Persian Gulf, and particularly in Kuwait. Much of the correspondence deals with requests for information about the Persian Gulf slave trade from the League of Nations' Advisory Commit...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 28 Apr 1929-27 Dec 1949
Extent:: 1 file (194 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/312 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 10: Destruction of Documents
Scope & Content:: The Destruction of Documents sub-sub-series consists of one file, which lists a number of intelligence summaries, diaries and reports that were destroyed at the Kuwait Political Agency in February 1941, apparently as a matter of procedure. The file also includes a copy of a procedure, dated 19 D...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 May 1941-19 Dec 1945
Extent:: 1 file (6 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/313-319
Title:: File 13: Foreigners
Scope & Content:: The sub-sub-series contains papers, mainly correspondence, of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to foreigners in Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. It includes files relating the following subjects: the American Mission and American missionaries in Kuwait (IOR/R/15/5/313 and IOR/R/15/5/314) forei...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1904-1949
Extent:: 7 files (489 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/320 (Sub-sub-series)
Title:: File 1: Agency Staff [policy]
Scope & Content:: The Agency Staff [policy] sub-sub-series consists of one surviving file. The file contains employee details about locally recruited clerical staff working mainly in the British Political Agency in Kuwait.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1948-1949
Extent:: 1 file (25 folios)

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