IOR/R/15/2/43

This file contains correspondence between British officials at Bahrain, Bushire and Baghdad.

These papers concern arrangements for the visit of Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, British High Commissioner at Baghdad, to ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd) at al-‘Uqayr in September 1920. Included are arrangements for Cox’s stay in Bahrain and a possible meeting with Shaikh ‘Īsá bin ‘Alī Āl Khalīfah (folios 6 and 18), and the issues which Ibn Sa‘ūd is likely to raise during the visit, for example the border dispute with Kuwait (folio 26).

In addition, there is various miscellaneous correspondence concerning securing a doctor from the Arabian Mission for Ibn Sa‘ūd (folio 20); a steamer service for ports on the eastern coast of Arabia (folio 27); Cox’s return to Iraq visiting the Shaikh Sālim bin al-Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ, ruler of Kuwait, and Shaikh Khaza‘al bin Jābir al-Ka‘bī, ruler of Khorramshahr, at Fallujah (folio 28); and sickness among the Najd Mission at Mecca (folio 34).