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This file primarily concerns British policy on the question of the Saudi-Transjordan frontier, specifically the frontier between Transjordan and Nejd, as initially outlined in the Hadda Agreement of 1925. The correspondence includes discussion of the following: The reported disaffection of cer...
File 2182/1913 Pt 2 'Persian Gulf Situation in El Katr Policy towards Bin Saud'
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This volume contains part 2 of the subject 'Persia Gulf'. It primarily concerns British policy towards Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] following the latter's occupation of Ottoman-ruled El Hassa [Al Hasa]. Included in the volume are the following: an account of a ...
Coll 6/48 'Oil: Concessions in Saudi Arabia. (Hasa)'
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This file relates to oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, particularly the Hasa [Al Hasa] concession between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal). It includes discussion of the following: Oil negotiations in Saudi Arabia during March and April 1933, and t...
Coll 6/63 'SOUTH EASTERN ARABIA AND QATAR BOUNDARIES.'
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This volume relates to the eastern boundary of Saudi Arabia and the southern boundary of Qatar. Much of the correspondence discusses the legal and international position of what is referred to as the 'blue line' (the frontier which marked the Ottoman Government's renunciation of its claims to B...
File 3516/1914 Pt 14 'German War: Persia; general situation'
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The volume concerns the situation in south-western Persia during the First World War. The main focus is the British occupation of Bushire. The volume covers: Attack on British Consulate at Ispahan, which resulted in the wounding of the Consul and the death of one of the Sowars employed as escor...
Enclosures nos. 2-71 to a dispatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 31 January 1840. The enclosures are dated 9 October 1839-27 January 1840. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf and in Sinde [Sindh]. Folios 286-353 ar...
‘Supposed designs of the Porte in the Persian Gulf’
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Enclosures no. 2-15 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Bombay [Mumbai] Castle, dated 15 March 1848. The enclosures are dated 14 December 1847-7 March 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to affairs in the Persian Gulf and the possible intentions of the Sublime ...
The Steam Ship Nitocris on the Rivers of Mesopotamia
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay [Mumbai] Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 102 of 1848, dated 30 November 1848. The enclosures are numbered 3-36 and are dated 13 January to 23 December 1848. They mostly consist ...
‘ENCLOSURES RECEIVED FROM THE PERSIAN GULF WITH INDEX. POLITICAL & SECRET DEPARTMENT’ Vol. 1
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The volume consists of despatches to the Marquis of Salisbury, HM Principal Secretary of State for India, from Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Ross, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, dated 9 January-11 December 1875, forwarding copies of his letters to the Secretary to the Government of India, F...
File 2960/1916 Pt 1 'Persia: salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers'
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This part contains correspondence relating to the salaries of HM consular and diplomatic officers, mainly those employed in Persia. The correspondence mostly consists of: letters from the Foreign Office to the India Office, including enclosed Foreign Office correspondence; draft letters from th...
