IOR/R/15/1/559

The volume contains letters, telegrams, memoranda, reports, and a newspaper cutting concerning the affairs of Ibn Sa'ud and the Najd. The correspondence is mostly between Percy Cox, the High Commissioner of Iraq; Arthur P. Trevor and then Stuart G. Knox, who were respectively, Political Resident and Acting Political Resident in Bushire; James C. More, Political Agent in Kuwait; Clive K. Daly, Political Agent in Bahrain; Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies (later the Duke of Devonshire, Victor Cavendish), in London; the Government of India, in Calcutta and Simla; the Foreign Office and India Office, in London; and Ibn Sa'ud.

The main subjects covered are the payment of Ibn Sa'ud's subsidy and the defining of the Najd-Iraq border and the Najd-Kuwait border, including the Mohammerah [Khorramshahr] and Ojair [Uqair] talks.

Other subjects include:

• the fall of Hail [Ha'il] to the Ikhwan;
• trouble in Bahrain between Najdis and Persians, including several papers to do with negotiations on this matter between Knox and Syed Hashim, Ibn Sa'ud's envoy;
• conflict between the Ikhwan and Ruweilah [Rawalah] tribe;
• enquiries into the business of a Dr Mann, visitor of Ibn Sa'ud;
• and administrative matters concerning Daly's leave and cover provided by Harold R. P. Dickson.