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51. IOR/R/15/5/15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/15
Title:
File No. 6/3- Vol. II Confidential Books and Maps
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and telegraphs consisting of requests for books, maps, memoranda, administration reports and military surveys of the Persian Gulf, particularly pertaining to Kuwait and Iraq. The file also includes requests and receipts for secret and confidential documents circ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1919-16 Aug 1929
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

52. IOR/R/15/5/27

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/27
Title:
File 10/4 British relations with Bin Saud
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to Ibn Sa'ud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] relationship with the British Government and the Ottoman Empire (and to a lesser extent, Kuwait) including the impact of the First World War. In addition to internal correspondence bet...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
18 Mar 1911-1 Oct 1920
Extent:
1 file (508 folios)

53. IOR/R/15/5/58

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/58
Title:
File 21/2 'Coal Depot at Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence, together with several cost estimates and a few maps, relating to the planning and construction of a new British coal depot at Bandar Shweikh [Shwaykh] in Kuwait. The main correspondents are the Political Agent, Kuwait and the Political Resident in the Persian Gul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1905-12 Jul 1917
Extent:
1 file (193 folios)

54. IOR/R/15/5/52

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/52
Title:
File XVI/4. Establishment of a Quarantine Station at Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between the Political Agency in Kuwait and the Political Residency in Bushire related to the establishment of a quarantine station at Kuwait after an outbreak of plague in Bahrain. In particular, the file contains correspondence on some disagreements with the rul...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Apr 1907-25 Apr 1912
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)

55. IOR/R/15/5/55

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/55
Title:
File XX/4 Naval and Military Intelligence Queries.
Scope & Content:
The file contains information provided by the Political Agent, Kuwait in response to military and naval intelligence queries from the Government of India; Army Headquarters India; the Intelligence Officer, Bushire; the Commander in Chief, East Indies Squadron, and other military and naval offici...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Nov 1906-10 Feb 1916
Extent:
1 file (105 folios)

56. 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)

57. 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)

58. IOR/R/15/5/75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/75
Title:
File 27/12 III Data for the Trade Report for 1921/22
Scope & Content:
This file consists entirely of data (in the form of handwritten notes and tables) that has been used to compile the tables of statistics that appear in the 1921-1922 trade report for Kuwait, which is included in the previous volume in this sub-sub-series (IOR/R/15/5/74). The file contains brief...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921?-1922?
Extent:
1 file (50 folios)

59. 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)

60. IOR/R/15/5/84

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/84
Title:
File XXVIII/9 Visits of Foreign Men-of-War to Koweit.
Scope & Content:
This file contains details of a call made by the commander of the French naval vessel La Surprise to the Political Agent and Ruler of Kuwait.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Apr 1908-20 Jun 1924
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)