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036-000544688 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Political Agent, Kuwait, 1904-1961

1. IOR/L/PS/10/738

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/738
Title:
File 1407/1918 'Kowait Trade Reports. (1911-1930)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the Kuwait trade reports for the years 1912-1930. The printed reports cover the period 1 April to 31 March and follow a similar format: a general narrative and sections on imports, exports, customs adm...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Jun 1912-12 Aug 1931
Extent:
1 volume (368 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/925

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/925
Title:
File 6499/1920 Pt 1-2 'Kuwait affairs'
Scope & Content:
This volume contains two parts: IOR/L/PS/10/925/1 and IOR/L/PS/10/925/2. IOR/L/PS/10/925/1 concerns the Kuwait-Nejd boundary dispute. Correspondence discusses the arbitration of the British Government in the matter of the border of Kuwaiti territory under the Shaikh of Kuwait [Sālim bin Mubār...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1926
Extent:
1 volume (177 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/379

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/379
Title:
File 1569/1913 Trans-Persian Railway
Scope & Content:
This volume contains multiple files with correspondence, reports, hand written memos, financial arrangements, and maps on the proposed Trans-Persian Railway. Most letters pertain to the charting of possible routes for the proposed railway in relation to British interests vis-à-vis the Russian Em...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Feb 1911-11 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (326 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/882
Title:
File 697/1920 'Koweit Order-in-Council'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the Kuwait Order in Council for each year from 1920-1928. The Order in Council refers to the legal instruments whereby His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the territories of the Shaikh of Kuwai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920-1930
Extent:
1 volume (488 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/51

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/51
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 9-10 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 9 and 10 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]: Part 9 (IOR/L/PS/10/51/1) concerns the rights of the Ruler of Kuwait to the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and Umkasr [Umm Qaşr]. Part 10 (IOR/L/PS/10/51/2) concerns the Ruler of Kuwait's relations with the Ottoman Empire, and his ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1903-1912
Extent:

1 volume (314 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/47

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/47
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 1-2 'Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/1) concerns the installation (and temporary withdrawal) of a Political Agent at Kuwait. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/47/2) concerns proposals for, and the eventual establishment of, a Post Office in Kuwait. Each...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1899-1915
Extent:
1 volume (298 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/48

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/48
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 3-4 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 3 and 4 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/48/1) concerns the grant of a lease in October 1907 by the Shaikh of Kuwait [Mubārak bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] to the British Government of land on the foreshore of Kuwait at Bunder Shweikh [Bandar Shawaykh]. Par...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1901-1918
Extent:
1 volume (270 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/49

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/49
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 5 'Koweit: Coal depot.'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains part 5 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]. The principal correspondents are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Zachariah Cox); the Political Agent at Kuwait (Major Stuart George Knox, later Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear); the Command...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Apr 1905-7 Feb 1917
Extent:
1 volume (183 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/936

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/936
Title:
File 7251/1920 Pt 1 'Arabia: General Situation; Hedjaz-Nejd relations.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the general situation in Arabia and in particular relations between Sultan of Nejd Bin Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and King Hussain [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī] of Hejaz....
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Sep 1920-7 Jul 1924
Extent:
1 volume (402 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/1003

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1003
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.'
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 May 1933-15 Aug 1935
Extent:
1 volume (488 folios)