IOR/R/15/1/607

The volume’s contents relate to Anglo-Saudi negotiations over the extent of Saudi Arabia’s boundaries, and are a continuation of the contents of file IOR/R/15/1/606. The chief correspondents in the file are Andrew Ryan, British Minister at Jeddah, George Rendell, Eastern Department of the Foreign Office, Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Major Ralph Watts, Political Agent in Muscat.

The subjects related to in the volume include: conversations between Ryan and Shaikh Yusuf Yasin, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Saudi Government over the Saudi-Qatar border; British doubts over the existence of a pre-1916 territorial agreement between King ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) and the then Ruler of Qatar (Shaikh Jāsim bin Muḥammad Āl Thānī); correspondence between British officials and the Sultan of Oman Saiyid Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr] over the position of the Saudi-Oman border; Fowle’s précis of the Saudi negotiations to date, written on 20 February 1937 (folios 91-96); copies of correspondence and historical reports from 1904-06 discussing the status of Odeid [’Odaid] (folios 102-09); a record of conversations held during March 1937 between Ibn Sa‘ūd, Rendell and Sir Reader Bullard, British Minister in Jeddah (folios 153-56); a sketch map and elevation of Qasr es Salwa [Baḥr as- Salwā] (folio 165).