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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/1-1442 Name Emir of Kuwait, 1718- Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/233

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/233
Title:
PZ 4841/1937 'Persian Gulf: Haji Williamson & Major Holmes'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the past conduct and future employment of Major Frank Holmes and William Richard ‘Haji’ Williamson in the Persian Gulf. Most of the correspondence is between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Secretary of State for India, and concerns ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 May 1937-4 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (68 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/278
Title:
PZ 467/1939 'Proposed visit of Iraqi Boy Scouts to Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of three telegrams: two from the Political Resident, Bushire, and one from the British Embassy in Baghdad. The Political Resident wrote to HM Ambassador, Baghdad, and copied his correspondence to the Political Agent in Kuwait, the Secretary of State for India and the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1939-7 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/295
Title:
PZ 4121/1939 'Visit of one Niall Rankin to Kuwait: question of unfulfilled promise to send film of visit to Shaikh'
Scope & Content:
This file contains drafted, handwritten letters with annotations, as well as formal correspondence, sent between British officials in the Persian Gulf relating to the visit of Niall Rankin to Kuwait and his unfulfilled promise to send a copy of his film, much of which was set in Kuwait, to the S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1939-21 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/516

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/516
Title:
Ext 2823/41 'Bahrain. Report of ban on export of gold & silver coinage. and subsequent smuggling.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding the imposition of an export licence system on the trade of gold and silver in the Persian Gulf region, at first to understand the flow of trade, and then to restrict it, lest gold find its way through Turkey into enemy-occupied destinations. Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-10 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)