‘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...
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.
File C 7/9 Repatriation of persons convicted in Agency Courts in the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence sent primarily between the Kuwait Political Agent, the Persian Gulf Political Resident, and officials of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office. It is concerned with how deportations of prisoners from the Gulf States — under the Colonial Prisoners Removal...
This file consists of correspondence regarding the trade in enslaved people in the Persian Gulf, and particularly in Kuwait (where there was no anti-slavery agreement between the British Government and the Ruler of Kuwait). Much of the correspondence is concerned with the preparation of informat...
The Slave Trade sub-sub-series consists of one file containing correspondence relating to the slave trade in the Persian Gulf, and particularly in Kuwait. Much of the correspondence deals with requests for information about the Persian Gulf slave trade from the League of Nations' Advisory Commit...
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...
The Destruction of Documents sub-sub-series consists of one file, which lists a number of intelligence summaries, diaries and reports that were destroyed at the Kuwait Political Agency in February 1941, apparently as a matter of procedure. The file also includes a copy of a procedure, dated 19 D...
File 13/4 I 'American Mission in Arabia (Includes Acquisition of Land)'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to American missionaries in Koweit [Kuwait]. It largely consists of correspondence regarding: the Arabian Mission, Reformed Church in America (or American Dutch Reformed Church Mission in the Persian Gulf, or American Mission), e...
The sub-sub-series contains papers, mainly correspondence, of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to foreigners in Kuwait and the Persian Gulf. It includes files relating the following subjects: the American Mission and American missionaries in Kuwait (IOR/R/15/5/313 and IOR/R/15/5/314) forei...
