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221. IOR/R/15/2/1283

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1283
Title:
File 6/64 Visit of H. E. Shaikh Hamad bin 'Isa al Khalifah C. S. I. to Kuwait, correspondence regarding
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the visit to Kuwait by Shaikh Hamad bin 'Isa al Khalifah [Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah] between 10 and 13 December. The correspondence is between the Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (sometimes aboard HMS Shoreham), the Political Agent, Ba...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Nov 1933-15 Dec 1933
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

222. IOR/R/15/2/1495

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1495
Title:
‘File 16/2 Correspondence between the Hon. the P.R. and H.E. the H.C. for Iraq and King Ibn Saud’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence between British Government officials, and between the Political Agent at Bahrain (Captain Charles Geoffrey Prior) and the King of Nejd and Hejaz (Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]), concerning territorial transgressions and treaties associated with th...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Dec 1929-4 Mar 1930
Extent:
1 file (38 folios)

223. IOR/R/15/2/1499

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1499
Title:
‘File 16/6 Diary weekly Kuwait’
Scope & Content:
Fortnightly reports (as opposed to weekly reports, as stated on its cover) from the Political Agency in Kuwait. The reports are signed by the Political Agent (Major James Carmichael More; Major Cyril Charles Johnson Barrett; Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson), or, in his absence,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1926-31 Dec 1930
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

224. IOR/R/15/2/1748

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1748
Title:
File 29/7 I Consular: Passport and Visa Regulations (governing Bahrain, Muscat, Kuwait and other Shaikhdoms)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence and documents related to passport and visa regulations in the various Shaikhdoms of the Gulf, primarily in Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat. The majority of the correspondence is between Charles Belgrave, Adviser to the Government of Bahrain; the Political Agency in...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1929-16 Oct 1934
Extent:
1 file (292 folios)

225. IOR/R/15/2/1860

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/1860
Title:
File B/3 Miscellaneous Correspondence with the Shaikh, the Notables and the Political Agent, Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to several complaint cases investigated by the Political Agent, Bahrain. They include: the desertion of his wife by a Kuwaiti subject in 1930; the recovery of money owing to a divorced wife by her ex-husband in 1931; the alleged seizure of goods from the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
26 Apr 1930-8 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (100 folios)

226. IOR/R/15/5/14-15

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/14-15
Title:
File 6: Maps and Books
Scope & Content:
Two files consisting of various memoranda, letters, receipts and lists of maps, books, and military reports.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904-1929
Extent:
2 files (401 folios)

227. IOR/R/15/6/402

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/402
Title:
File 12/1 KUWAIT/HAIFA COMMERCIAL MOTOR ROUTE
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a single demi-official letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the India Office, dated 5 February 1937, discussing the possibility of a commercial motor route from Kuwait to Haifa.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Feb 1937-5 Feb 1937
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

228. IOR/R/15/6/436

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/436
Title:
File 14/3 Oilfields in the Gulf outside Muscat territory
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to oilfields in the Gulf excluding Muscat territory. The discussion in the file relates to: Negotiations over concessions for oil exploration in the Trucial Coast The impact of the negotiations on the behav...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jun 1936-11 Feb 1946
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)

229. IOR/R/15/6/504

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/6/504
Title:
‘Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Political Residency and Maskat Political Agency for 1904-1905’
Scope & Content:
Administration Report on the Persian Gulf Residency and Maskat [Muscat] Political Agency for 1904-1905, published by the Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India (Calcutta). The report is divided into a number of parts: 1. General Summary, prepared by Major Percy Zachariah Co...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1906
Extent:
1 volume (89 folios)

230. IOR/W/L/PS/18/B381 (i)

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/W/L/PS/18/B381 (i)
Title:
MAP TO SHOW THE LIMITS OF KOWEIT AND ADJACENT COUNTRY
Scope & Content:
The map represents Kuwait and the surrounding area. The map records cities, provinces, countries, hydrology, and reliefs. Printed by Harrison and Sons, the map indicates by hand areas around Kuwait, and it is signed by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Grey) and the Grand Vizier...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 map