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181. IOR/R/15/5/91, f 11

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/91, f 11
Title:
Sketch map of Pearl Banks between Koweit and Ras Tanura
Scope & Content:
The map shows the locations of pearl banks along the east coast of the Persian Gulf between Kuwait and Ras Tanura. The map is a rough, hand-drawn sketch. The pearl banks are numbered from 1-58 which correspond to a numbered list (in Arabic) which appears on the sheet. Also given are the names of ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
Nov 1906
Extent:
1 map

182. IOR/R/15/5/65, f 207

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/65, f 207
Title:
Annexe numero 5A. Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf and Arabian Coast.
Scope & Content:
The map shows the Persian Gulf and Arabian Coast naming the settlements, regions and bays; the map also indicates the Indo-European overland and submarine telegraph lines and roads. Some brief descriptions of topography are given. The map is signed in the bottom right hand corner by Edward Gre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1913
Extent:
1 map

183. IOR/R/15/5/100

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/100
Title:
File 5/C Kuwait Najd Boundary
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports, and notes for the period from November 1920 to February 1923 relating to the Kuwait/Najd boundary. The main topics discussed include: The attack on Jahra by the Ikhwan Bahrain Agency Mission to Ibn Sa`ud, 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1920-24 Feb 1923
Extent:
1 volume (231 folios)

184. IOR/R/15/5/42

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/42
Title:
File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and related political developments. Specifically, the correspondence in the file relates to tribal movements and disturbances in and around t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1929-5 Aug 1929
Extent:
1 file (187 folios)

185. IOR/R/15/5/208

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/208
Title:
File 4/22 I Construction of a Port in Kuwait Bay under Iraqi Control; Extension of the Iraqi Railway; Umm Qasr
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials in Kuwait, Iraq, Britain and India concerning the political implications and practical logistics regarding a proposal to construct a port under Iraqi control in Kuwaiti territory (and a related proposal to link the port to Basra by rail...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jun 1938-26 Oct 1941
Extent:
1 file (230 folios)

186. IOR/R/15/5/56

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/56
Title:
File XX/5 Botanical information about Koweit.
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence of the Political Agent, Kuwait concerning botanical matters. The form Koweit is generally used in the papers. Folios 4-5 contain correspondence dated 1905 between the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox) and the (Acting) Political Resident in the...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Nov 1905-11 Mar 1915
Extent:
1 file (80 folios)

187. IOR/R/15/5/90

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/90
Title:
File 32/12 Estates of British and British Indian Subjects
Scope & Content:
The file contains office notes and correspondence relating to a number of claims by relatives to the estates of individuals who had died in Kuwait. The papers include witness statements, lists of possessions, and correspondence that discusses arrangements for the transferral of property. The corr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1924-24 Oct 1924
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

188. IOR/R/15/5/134

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/134
Title:
File 2/2 VII Contraband Questions with Iraq. (Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling)
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Director of Customs and Excise, Basra and the Political Agent, Kuwait, related to a case of a Kuwaiti nakhuda who had been fined by the customs office for smuggling goods from Kuwait. In turn, the Political Agent, Kuwait, passed the case to the Shaikh...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1942-1 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 file (10 folios)

189. IOR/R/15/5/302

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/302
Title:
‘File 7/5 Appointment of Judicial Adviser to the Political Resident’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the appointment of a Judicial Assistant — Summer Hayes (also spelt Haines) — to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf for the purpose of providing relief to subordinate Political Agents in their judicial work. It also contains an incomplete copy (on folios 2-7) of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1948-14 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

190. IOR/R/15/5/304

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/304
Title:
‘File 7/3 Special Police Officers — Appointment’
Scope & Content:
The file contains two letters from F J McLintic, Chief Special Police Officer at Ahmadi, addressed to the Kuwait Political Agent. The letters concern the cancellation of Dudley Preston Lester's appointment as a Special Police Officer, and the appointment of Daniel Dudley Williams. The file contai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Oct 1949-15 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)