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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Shuwaikh , Asia, Kuwait Level [40] File

1. IOR/R/15/1/638

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/638
Title:
File 86/1 I (D 73) Eastern and General Syndicate - Proposed Oil Concession in Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume covers the proposal by the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited for oil concessions in Kuwait (also spelled Koweit) which were to be negotiated on the Syndicate's behalf by Major Frank Holmes. Included within the volume are copies of the draft agreements and correspondence between t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1925-1 Jun 1931
Extent:
1 volume (244 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/642

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/642
Title:
File 86/1 VI (D 97) Kuwait Oil
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the volume relates to three main areas of discussion: The Kuwait Oil Company's negotiations with the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, for the granting of an oil concession in Kuwait. Included within the volume are copies of both the draft concession agreement, in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1934-30 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/643

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/643
Title:
File 86/1 VII (D 101) Kuwait Oil
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait (Harold Richard Dickson); Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); Officials in the India and Foreign Offices (including Sir Louis Kershaw, John Gil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1934-30 Jun 1934
Extent:
1 volume (249 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/644

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/644
Title:
86/1 VIII Kuwait Oil D 106
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the volume is primarily concerned with the ongoing negotiations between the Kuwait Oil Company (led by Frank Holmes and Archibald Chisholm) and the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, which were suspended in June 1934 following disagreements between the partie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1934-31 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 volume (346 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/646

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/646
Title:
86/1 X Kuwait Oil (D 131)
Scope & Content:
The file primarily contains correspondence between the Shaikh of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ), the Political Agent at Kuwait (Harold Dickson and Gerald Simpson DeGaury), the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle and Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (John C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
24 Apr 1935-13 May 1937
Extent:
1 file (240 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/647

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/647
Title:
'D.158. 86/1 - xi KUWAIT OIL'
Scope & Content:
The file primarily focuses on the progress being made by the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) in drilling for oil in Kuwait, including establishing drills at new sites and the discovery of oil at the Burgan site in February 1938. Later correspondence relates to various topics, as follows: the work and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 May 1937-30 Sep 1941
Extent:
1 file (209 folios)