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61. IOR/L/PS/12/3861

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3861
Title:
Coll 30/127 'Persian Gulf. Koweit. Relations between Ibn Saud and the Sheikh of Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials, primarily at the Political Residency and the Political Agency in Kuwait, concerning relations between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. The correspondence in the file focuses on a visit made to Kuwait by the King of Saudi Arabia, 'Abd al'-Azi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jan 1936-8 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (81 folios)

62. IOR/L/PS/12/4090

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4090
Title:
Coll 34/3 'Slavery and Slave Trade: Red Sea and Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, and notes relating to slavery and slave traffic in the Red Sea and Arabian Peninsula. Principal correspondents include officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, Treasury, and Admiralty. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, come...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
6 Feb 1922-27 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (444 folios)

63. IOR/L/PS/12/4099

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4099
Title:
Coll 34/12 'Slavery and Slave Trading: Measures to prevent slavery on the Trucial Coast'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and minute papers concerning the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Trucial Coast. The papers consist of intelligence reports, parliamentary notices, memoranda, letters, and telegrams. Matters covered by the file include: Concern over a lack of application of anti-slavery legisla...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Nov 1936-20 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (235 folios)

64. IOR/L/PS/12/4109

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4109
Title:
Coll 35/6 'Arabia: Hejaz-Nejd; wireless stations; postal and telegraph communications with the outside world'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns postal communications in the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd and, later, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The file covers: Desire of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] to establish wireless stations in Hejaz and Nejd, 1926-29 Proposed wireless communicati...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Sep 1925-17 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (514 folios)

65. IOR/L/PS/12/4146

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4146
Title:
Coll 35/38 'Saudi Arabia: Saudi-Kuwait postal arrangements'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the Saudi proposal that mails from Riyadh to Bushire should be sent via Kuwait. The file contains correspondence between the British Legation at Jedda, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Saudi Arabia, and the Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1939-8 Dec 1939
Extent:
1 file (24 folios)

66. IOR/L/PS/12/4148

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4148
Title:
Coll 35/41 'Persian Gulf: radio telephone communication between Bahrain, and the mainland of Saudi Arabia (Dhahran) for the use of Californian Standard Oil Company'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns private use of radio wireless communications between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain for oil companies. The file contains: applications for permission to institute wireless communication between California Arabian Standard Oil Company in Bahrain and its representatives in Hasa [Saudi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1938-7 Dec 1946
Extent:
1 file (487 folios)

67. IOR/L/PS/12/4340

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4340
Title:
Coll 37/106 ‘Travellers Arabia, etc:- Earl & Countess of Athlone in 1938’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the arrangements made for the private visit of Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, and Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, to Ibn Saud [Ibn Sa‘ūd] and the Sheikh [Shaikh] of Bahrain (also spelled Bahrein in the file) and his family. It also cont...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jan 1938-17 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (51 folios)

68. IOR/L/PS/12/4382

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4382
Title:
Coll 38/18 ‘Anglo-Saudi Arabian Defensive Treaty’
Scope & Content:
This file concerns the drafting process of an exchange of notes relating to the 1927 Jeddah Treaty. Issues discussed include United States interests in eastern Saudi Arabia in connection with the Dhahran airfield. It includes a ‘Draft for an Exchange of Notes between the British and Saudi Arabian...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Dec 1947-30 Jan 1948
Extent:
1 file (61 folios)

69. IOR/L/PS/12/4507

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4507
Title:
Coll 44/28 ‘Saudi Arabia: Attitude of Ibn Saud towards the European War, 1939.’
Scope & Content:
The papers relate mainly to a discussion held in July 1940 by the War Cabinet Official Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East on the neutrality of Saudi Arabia under Ibn Saud [Ibn Sa‘ūd, or ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] during the Second World War. The main iss...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1940-6 Mar 1945
Extent:
1 file (28 folios)

70. IOR/L/PS/12/4756

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4756
Title:
Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the Middle East (Official) Committee. It consists of: papers circulated to members of the Committee, received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); a few items of CRO correspondence with the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office,...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Mar 1949-13 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (468 folios)