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261. IOR/R/15/5/94

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/94
Title:
'File 1/C Volume I. Miscellaneous'.
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, receipts and notes on various topics concerning the Kuwait Political Agency, January 1921 to August 1921. An index of topics contained in the volume is listed on folio 6. Topics discussed in the volume include: The presentat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1919-30 Aug 1921
Extent:
1 volume (230 folios)

262. IOR/R/15/5/57

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/57
Title:
File XX/9 THE AJMAN.
Scope & Content:
The file contains a set of manuscript notes by the Political Agent, Kuwait (Captain Stuart George Knox) on the Ajman [‘Ajmān] tribe. The notes include genealogical charts ('pedigrees'); estimates of numbers of fighting men; references to allowances received by shaikhs; and a table giving the di...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1908
Extent:
1 file (16 folios)

263. 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)

264. IOR/R/15/5/365

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/365
Title:
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part I: Historical and Political Materials: Précis of Nejd Affairs, 1804-1904.
Scope & Content:
The volume, marked secret, is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part 1: Historical and Political Materials: Précis of Nejd Affairs, 1804-1904, and includes the printing statement 'G. C. Press, Simla. - No. 817 F. D. - 5.11.04. - 30 0 M. D.' The volume opens with a preface by J A Saldana, dated 5 October 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:

1 volume (32 folios)

265. IOR/R/15/5/367

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/367
Title:
Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part II: Geographical and descriptive materials, Section III: Central Arabia.
Scope & Content:
The volume, marked confidential, is Persian Gulf Gazetteer, Part II: Geographical and descriptive materials, Section III: Central Arabia, compiled by John Gordon Lorimer, and includes the printing statement 'G. C. Press Simla - No. C-905 F. D. - 18.11.04 - 80 - C. G.'. The volume begins with not...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1904
Extent:

1 volume (125 folios)

266. IOR/R/15/5/79, f 119v

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/79, f 119v
Title:
SKETCH MAP OF ʿOMAN To Accompany Trade Report for 1913-14.
Scope & Content:
Sketch map of Oman, ranging from as far as Khasab in the north to just beyond Jaalan [Ja‘alān] in the south. Includes some indication of hydrology.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1914
Extent:
1 map

267. IOR/R/15/5/75

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/75
Title:
File 27/12 III Data for the Trade Report for 1921/22
Scope & Content:
This file consists entirely of data (in the form of handwritten notes and tables) that has been used to compile the tables of statistics that appear in the 1921-1922 trade report for Kuwait, which is included in the previous volume in this sub-sub-series (IOR/R/15/5/74). The file contains brief...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921?-1922?
Extent:
1 file (50 folios)

268. 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)

269. 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)

270. IOR/R/15/5/21

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/21
Title:
File 9/4 ‘Political Agency Koweit. IX/4. Civil Cases from 1909’
Scope & Content:
The file contains case correspondence, including several witness statements and a record of hearing proceedings held at the British Political Agency in Kuwait. These case papers relate to the investigation and resolution of 27 individual claims that were submitted to the Political Agent, Kuwait ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, Persian, and Tamil
Date Range:
29 Sep 1908-18 Jul 1913
Extent:
1 file (299 folios)