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1. IOR/L/PS/12/128

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/128
Title:
PZ 704/1935 Arabia: Request for Financial Assistance for the ex-Amir of Mecca
Scope & Content:
The file mainly consists of correspondence between the India Office and the Foreign Office, and enclosed copies of Foreign Office correspondence, relating to the former Amir [Emir] of Mecca, Sherif Ali Haider. It includes a letter from Kenneth Johnstone, Foreign Office, to John Gilbert Laithwa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Jan 1935-25 Apr 1935
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/218

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/218
Title:
PZ 8747/36 ‘Tour of G.W. Rendel, C.M.G., Foreign Office, to the Middle East, 1937. Report by Mr G.W. Rendel’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of a report by Mr George William Rendel, Head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office in London, on his private tour to the Persian Gulf and also to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of King Ibn Saud, in February and March 1937. This personal account of his trip is...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Dec 1936-4 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (103 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/245

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/245
Title:
PZ 1115/1938 'Col. Dickson's visit to Riyadh and conversations with Ibn Saud.'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and other papers mainly relating to the private visit of Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his three private conversations with King Ibn Saud. It includes correspondence between John Charles Walton, India Office, and Dickson...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1937-26 Feb 1938
Extent:
1 file (48 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/410

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/410
Title:
PZ 4618/40 'Saudi-Arabia. Geographical Maps of -'
Scope & Content:
The file contains reproductions of a map of north-eastern Saudi Arabia and of a road map of Hasa Province, Saudi Arabia, originally prepared by the California Arabian Standard Oil Company. The file also contains correspondence between the War Office, the India Office, the Political Agent, Bahre...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Aug 1940-18 Mar 1941
Extent:
1 file (22 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/732

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/732
Title:
Ext 3508/42 'Report by Mr Bowlby, Petroleum Department representative, on his visit to Abadan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Basra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a report by Hugo Salvin Bowlby, Petroleum Department representative in Baghdad, on his visit to Abadan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Basra, forwarded by Petroleum Department to the India Office. The report describes visits to oil fields in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, in June 1942.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1942-6 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/12/752

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/752
Title:
Ext 4986/42 Destitute Yemenis and Hadhramis entering Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
The file contains a letter from the British Ministry at Jedda to the Foreign Office, informing them that Ibn Saud had asked for assistance in preventing destitute Yemenis and Hadramis from entering Saudi Arabia, requesting that only subjects with means of subsistence be admitted.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Aug 1942-16 Sep 1942
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/12/786

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/786
Title:
Ext 329/43 ‘Shipment of Food to Persian Gulf States’
Scope & Content:
The file is concerned with the supply of food – in the form of cereals and dried fruit – to the Persian Gulf States (Bahrain, Kuwait, Muscat, and the Trucial Coast) and eastern Saudi Arabia, during the Second World War (1939-1945) and its aftermath. This involves correspondence discussing the mi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Oct 1942-8 Jun 1948
Extent:
1 file (405 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/12/837A

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/837A
Title:
Ext 3518/43 'Pol. Resident's Request for Photograph of himself'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of letters between Graves Law, Ministry of Information, Roland Tennyson Peel and E W R Lumby, and the India Office which discuss photographing Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Geoffrey Prior, the Public Relations Officer in the Persian Gulf.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1943-4 Nov 1943
Extent:
1 file (8 files)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/838

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/838
Title:
Ext 3564/43 'Report on Saudi Arabia by Dr Storm and Mr Van Peursen of American Mission, Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
This file contains a report about the American Mission in Bahrain.The report is divided into six parts. Its contents include: • A summary of the medical tour in Saudi Arabia. • An account of the conditions of the city, food and people. • Public sentiment towards news of the war. • A discussi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1943-16 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/931

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/931
Title:
Ext 3323/44 'Sunni Moslem teachers for Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
This file contains papers that discuss to find suitable school teachers to work in Saudi Arabia at the request of the Saudi Government. The papers indicate that these efforts were conducted with the help of the British Council, which looked into finding possible candidates in both Sudan and India...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1944-30 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (26 folios)