IOR/R/15/5/35

This file contains correspondence related to the British Government's relationship with Ibn Sa'ud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd].

Specifically, the correspondence concerns the movements of the Awazim tribe, patrols of the neutral area between Kuwait and Ibn Sa'ud's territory, negotiations regarding the surrender of the Ikhwan leader, Faisal al-Duwaish [Faysal al-Duwaysh] and discussions concerning the status of the British Agency in Jeddah being raised to that of a Legation.

Much of the correspondence in the file is between the following: Sidney Webb, the Secretary of State for Colonies; British officials at the Political Agency in Kuwait; the Political Residency in Bushire; and the British Agency in Jeddah. However, the file also contains copies of letters, in Arabic with English translations, from the following: Ibn Sa'ud; the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah; Hafiz Wahba; Faisal al-Duwaish.

On folios 116-125 the file contains an account of relations between Ibn Sa'ud and Kuwait as narrated to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe in December 1929.