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111. IOR/R/15/5/305

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/305
Title:
‘File 7/7 Admission of Suits against the Ruling Chiefs’
Scope & Content:
The file consists largely of correspondence between the Kuwait Political Agent (Gordon Noel Jackson) and the Persian Gulf Political Resident (Sir William Rupert Hay). The subject matter is a dispute between Dr Akopiantz and the Shaikh of Kuwait [Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]; the former is clai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Mar 1949-23 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)

112. IOR/R/15/5/306

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/306
Title:
‘File C 7/8 Serving of Writs on Americans’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a request sent to the Political Agency by Clifton P English, United States Consul at Basra, asking the Political Agent to serve a writ against Thomas Wallace, an employee of the Kuwait Oil Company. It also contains the Agent's (Herbert George Jakins) reply.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Oct 1949-21 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (3 folios)

113. IOR/R/15/5/312

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/312
Title:
File 10/1 A DOCUMENTS DESTROYED
Scope & Content:
This file is comprised of a list of intelligence summaries and diaries which, according to the file, were 'destroyed by fire in February 1941.' The file lists over thirty intelligence summaries, diaries and reports, ranging in date from 1928 to 1939, which appear to have been destroyed at the K...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 May 1941-19 Dec 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

114. IOR/R/15/5/181

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/181
Title:
File 4/3 I Purchase of Saluting Gun, Aircraft, etc, by the Shaikh of Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the supply of arms and ammunition to the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. Contrary to the file's title, the majority of this correspondence concerns the Shaikh's purchase of several Lewis Machine Guns (and am...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
20 Jun 1929-4 Aug 1937
Extent:
1 file (221 folios)

115. IOR/R/15/5/183

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/183
Title:
File 4/5 Kuwait State: Shaikh of Kuwait, Status of and Salutes for
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning issues related to the number of official gun salutes that the British Government assigned to rulers in the Persian Gulf as well as the titles that should be used for them in official correspondence. Specifically, the majorit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 May 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (183 folios)

116. IOR/R/15/5/187

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/187
Title:
File 4/7 II Shaikh of Kuwait's Visit to Arab States, Europe , Etc
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding proposed and actual trips abroad that were made by the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. This includes details of plans that were made for trips to Egypt, India, Iraq and England that do not appear to have ultimately materialised, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
13 Jul 1937-31 Oct 1949
Extent:
1 file (171 folios)

117. IOR/R/15/5/160

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/160
Title:
File 2/8 Kuwait water supply from Shatt al-`Arab
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence relating to the supply of water to Kuwait from the Shatt-al-Arab estuary which lies within the territory of Iraq. The papers contain incidents relating to the payment of customs duties, the customary drawing of water from populations surrounding the estuary, and ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2 May 1932-17 Jun 1943
Extent:
1 file (232)

118. IOR/R/15/5/275

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/275
Title:
File 6/2 I Foreign Aircraft (K.L.M. Line)
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence regarding the passage of foreign aircraft through the Persian Gulf's various principalities. Most of the papers relate to Italian, Dutch or French passenger aircraft en route to South and East Asia, as well as new routes by Iraqi and Syrian Airways within the Mid...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1932-11 Jun 1949
Extent:
1 file (192 folios)

119. IOR/R/15/5/214

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/214
Title:
File 4/26 Izzat Jaffer
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning the activities and standing of Izzat Jaafar ['Izzat Jafar], the Secretary of the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah. Much of the correspondence concerns allegations that Jafar was an agent of the Italian Govern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1 Apr 1940-24 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (135 folios)

120. IOR/R/15/5/225

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/225
Title:
File 4/38 Supply of Saluting Gun for the Shaikh of Kuwait
Scope & Content:
This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the desire of the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, to purchase a three-pounder saluting gun [cannon] to affix to his recently-built motor dhow in 1932 (folios 2-41). Subsequently, the correspondence in the file...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Oct 1931-30 Nov 1949
Extent:
1 file (94 folios)