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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/50

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/50
Title:
File 1855/1904 Pt 6-8 'Koweit'
Scope & Content:
The volume contains parts 6, 7, and 8 of the subject 'Koweit' [Kuwait]: Part 6 (IOR/L/PS/10/50/1) concerns the status of citizens of Kuwait in Persia. Part 7 (IOR/L/PS/10/50/2) concerns the proposal that vessels from Kuwait should adopt a distinctive flag, and the likely reaction this would brin...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and French
Date Range:
1904-1908
Extent:
1 volume (324 folios)

4. 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)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/112

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/112
Title:
File 619/1907 Pt 3 'Arms Traffic:- Koweit Trade.'
Scope & Content:
The volume discusses the work of British political and naval authorities in the Persian Gulf in suppressing the trafficking arms and ammunition, particularly from Muscat to Koweit [Kuwait]. Included are reports of searches undertaken on vessels suspected of trafficking of arms, including invento...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
28 Apr 1900-15 Jun 1914
Extent:
1 volume (358 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/130
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 1 ‘Diplomatic & Consular Expenditure.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers concerning expenditure by the Government of India and the Foreign Office on diplomatic and consular services, mostly relating to Persia [Iran]. It also includes some correspondence relating to expenditure at the Koweit [Kuwait] Political Agency from 1904-1905 (the year i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1908-28 Feb 1911
Extent:

1 volume (322 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/131/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/131/1
Title:
File 266/1908 Pt 2 ‘Diplomatic + Consular Expenditure.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers (correspondence and financial statements) concerning diplomatic and consular expenditure, mostly relating to Persia. It includes: statements sent to the Secretary of State for India by the Government of India Foreign Department, comparing the expenditure incurred by th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Mar 1909-21 Apr 1914
Extent:

1 item (203 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/262

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/262
Title:
File 1247/1912 Pts 1-2 'KOWEIT & MOHAMMERAH ANGLO-TURKISH AGREEMENT'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises two parts discussing the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 1913 and especially the negotiations with the Shaikh of Koweit [Kuwait] and Shaikh of Mahommera [Khorramshahr] with respect to their boundaries with Turkey. The volume comprises parts 1 and 2 of 2. Each part includes a div...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1896-25 Sep 1913
Extent:
1 volume (210 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/271, f 60

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/271, f 60
Title:
'MAP TO SHOW THE LIMITS OF KOWEIT AND ADJACENT COUNTRY'
Scope & Content:
The map, illustrating Koweit [Kuwait] and surrounding territory, accompanies Foreign Office Confidential document 10135, dated January 1913 (folios 57-62), Annex 4: Koweit.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1912
Extent:
1 map

10. IOR/L/PS/10/607/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/607/3
Title:
File 2960/1916 Pt 3 'Exchange compensation allowances to Government servants at Koweit, Muscat, Bahrain, Gwadur, Debai'
Scope & Content:
This part contains: correspondence (and a list of the correspondence) between the India Office and the Government of India, regarding the payment of dollar exchange compensation allowance for Government employees at Bahrain and Koweit [Kuwait], and for postal staff at Dubai, Gwadur [Gwadar] and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 May 1919-18 May 1927
Extent:
1 item (72 folios)