IOR/R/15/5/59

The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to Kuwait relations with the British Government:

The discussion in the volume relates to:

• appointment of the Political Agent, Kuwait;
• visit of HM Consul, Basra;
• customs and railway negotiations;
• the Anglo-Turkish convention, 1912;
• the death of Mubarak [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], 1915, and succession of his son Jabir [Shaikh Jābir II bin Mubārak Āl Ṣabāḥ].

There are a number of letters in Arabic with their translations, for example, from Sheikh Mubarak to Percy Zachariah Cox, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (folio 83) and to Captain William Henry Irvine Shakespear (folio 90). It also includes the Arabic text and translation 'Secret Agreement Between the British Government and Shaikh Mubarak dated the 23rd January 1899' (folios 100-102).

The file also includes a copy of the 'Maritime Truce Treaty with the Shaikh of Kuwait, of 1841 [with English and Arabic versions]' (folios 130-132).

The principal correspondents in the volume include: the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon; the Secretary of State for India; His Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Percy Zachariah Cox; the First Assistant to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Under-Secretary to the Government of India; the British Consul to Basra, F E Crow; the Vali of Bussorah; Sadun Pasha, Seyyid Talib Pasha; the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Mubarak; the Political Agent at Kuwait, Captain Stuart George Knox; the British Consul at Mohammerah [Khorramshahr].