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Name Emir of Kuwait, 1718- Place Kuwait, Middle East, Asia

1. 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)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/458

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/458
Title:
File 2877/1914 'Persian Gulf and Mesopotamia: survey operations of RIMS Palinurus'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to the survey of the Persian Gulf by RIMS Palinurus. The discussion in the volume relates to the objectives, route, and associated costs of the survey of the Persian Gulf. Further discussion surrounds t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1911-1916
Extent:
1 volume (254 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/991

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/991
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Koweit.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: The 'nationality clause' whereby any concession granted had to be to a British concern Corresponde...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 Jul 1931-30 Nov 1932
Extent:
1 volume (457 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/992

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/992
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3B 'Persian Gulf: oil; Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: A proposed visit by the Shaikh of Kuwait to the Anglo-Persian oilfields (ff 488-492) A report (ff ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1933
Extent:
1 volume (492 folios)

5. 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)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/278

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/278
Title:
PZ 467/1939 'Proposed visit of Iraqi Boy Scouts to Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of three telegrams: two from the Political Resident, Bushire, and one from the British Embassy in Baghdad. The Political Resident wrote to HM Ambassador, Baghdad, and copied his correspondence to the Political Agent in Kuwait, the Secretary of State for India and the Government...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Jan 1939-7 Feb 1939
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/295
Title:
PZ 4121/1939 'Visit of one Niall Rankin to Kuwait: question of unfulfilled promise to send film of visit to Shaikh'
Scope & Content:
This file contains drafted, handwritten letters with annotations, as well as formal correspondence, sent between British officials in the Persian Gulf relating to the visit of Niall Rankin to Kuwait and his unfulfilled promise to send a copy of his film, much of which was set in Kuwait, to the S...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1939-21 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/2066

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2066
Title:
Coll 6/5 'Relations with Ibn Saud. Proposed meeting between Col. Biscoe and Ibn Saud. Koweit-Nejd Relations.'
Scope & Content:
This volume consists largely of copies of Foreign Office correspondence (forwarded by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to the Under-Secretary of State for India) regarding relations between Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and Kuwait. In addition, t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 May 1929-21 Sep 1932
Extent:
1 volume (464 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/2864

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2864
Title:
Coll 17/11 'Iraq. Relations with Arab Sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf. Propaganda against Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence regarding Iraq's relations with other Arab nations, predominantly with Kuwait. The papers dated 1932-1934 discuss British concerns over moves to institute closer relations between Iraq and Kuwait, as well as smuggling, Pan-Arabism in the Gulf, and Ibn Saud's conc...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Mar 1932-19 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (303 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/2883

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2883
Title:
Coll 17/22(1) ‘Iraq: Iraq-Koweit Relations. Iraqi incursions into Koweiti territory’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to alleged incidents occurring on or near the border between Iraq and Kuwait (Koweit). It mostly concerns alleged incidents of Iraqi police in armed cars making incursions into Kuwait territory, and alleged incidents of violation of Kuwaiti territorial waters by...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1934-31 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (585 folios)