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Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/176
Title:: File 3/6 Iranian Fisheries.
Scope & Content:: This file documents concerns held by the British that pearl fisheries – both within and beyond the territorial waters of the Arab rulers – might be exploited by foreign parties. Much of the correspondence speculates on the extent of Persia's interest in the pearl fisheries that are not within th...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 8 Oct 1936-18 Apr 1942
Extent:: 1 file (85 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/177
Title:: File 3/7 PIRACY in the Persian Gulf.
Scope & Content:: This file relates to several cases of robbery, which have reportedly been committed by Persian subjects (referred to in the file as pirates) in the Shatt-al-Arab, against Kuwaiti sailing boats, including those belonging to the Kuwait Water Supply Company. The file includes copies of correspond...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 11 Dec 1943-19 Feb 1947
Extent:: 1 file (86 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/178
Title:: File 3/8 Affairs of Sh. Khaz`als sons.
Scope & Content:: This file relates to the heirs of Shaikh Khaz‘al [Khaz‘al bin Jabir bin Merdaw Āl Ka‘bī], the late Arab Shaikh of Mohommerah [Khorramshahr], and their requests for British assistance. The first few items of correspondence concern Shaikh Khaz‘al's eldest son, Shaikh Chassib bin Khaz‘al [Shaikh C...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 15 Mar 1942-17 Aug 1948
Extent:: 1 file (252 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/179
Title:: File 4/1 General Information regarding Kuwait and Hinterland
Scope & Content:: This file contains a number of reports concerning different aspects of life in Kuwait, including its geography, history, flora and fauna, weather, political administration and leading personalities. Unless otherwise stated, the reports' author is Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 1933-1948
Extent:: 1 file (235 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/180
Title:: File 4/2 Ibn Sabah Family Tree and Kuwait Succession
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence between British officials that is all loosely related to the succession of the rulers of Kuwait and related matters of protocol. The file also contains a hand-written note of a declaration made by the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 23 Feb 1921-10 Dec 1949
Extent:: 1 file (30 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/182
Title:: File 4/4 Kuwait State: Education of Shaikh of Kuwait's son, Muhammad
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning plans for Muhammad Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, a son of the Ruler of Kuwait, Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, to study English in Britain. This correspondence is primarily between officials at the Political Residency in Bushire, the P...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 5 Sep 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:: 1 file (60 folios)

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)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/184
Title:: File 4/6 I Kuwait-Iraq Frontier
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the delineation of the borders between Kuwait and its neighbours, Iraq and Saudi Arabia (occasionally referred to as Nejd in the file). The primary correspondents in the file are officials from the British High Commission in Iraq, the Political Agenc...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 30 Jan 1931-7 Oct 1939
Extent:: 1 file (371 folios)

Reference (shelfmark):: IOR/R/15/5/185
Title:: File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier
Scope & Content:: This file contains correspondence regarding the demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait frontier including issues related to a disagreement between the governments of Iraq and Kuwait regarding the location of a specific border marker, smuggling between the two countries and the development of Umm al-Qasr...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: Arabic and English
Date Range:: 21 Nov 1939-7 Nov 1949
Extent:: 1 file (218 folios)

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