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IOR/R/15/5/66
- Record Id:
- 040-000242083
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000241998
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00000d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/5/66
- Title:
- 22/16 Mr Philby's Mission to Najd - 1918.
- Scope & Content:
-
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the Najd mission to Ibn Sa‘ūd by Harry St John Bridger Philby, Political Officer. Correspondence mainly concerns the dispatch and arrival of supplies for St John Philby: tea, tobacco, film, ammunition and arms, camping equipment, and medical supplies. After some correspondence (folio 64) St John Philby, signs his name and 'Pol Dept' thereafter. St John Philby also requests tents for Ibn Sa‘ūd. After St John Philby's mission is finished, arrangements are made to send his kit to his brother Ralph Montague Philby, Naval Transport Officer, Basra.
Correspondence also discusses the dispatch of geological and natural history specimens to the Bombay Natural History Society. The volume includes correspondence in Arabic with Ahmad El Jaber Es Subah and Abdullah en-Nafisi who were helping with the supply operation.
Correspondents include: Harry St John Bridger Philby, Political Department, the Political Agent at Kuwait; (Percy Gordon Loch; Daniel Vincent McCallum) Director of Sea Transport, Basrah; Deputy Civil Commissioner, Basrah Wilayet; Officer Commanding, H.T. Kalika.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000241998
037-000241999
038-000242075
040-000242083 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/5 : Political Agency, Kuwait
IOR/R/15/5/1-108 : Kuwait Agency, First Series subject files
IOR/R/15/5/59-71 : File 22: Kuwait's relations with other Powers
IOR/R/15/5/66 : 22/16 Mr Philby's Mission to Najd - 1918. - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0005]/036-000241998[0001]/037-000241999[0018]/038-000242075[0008]/040-000242083
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00000d
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1918
- End Date:
- 1925
- Date Range:
- 2 Feb 1918-2 Nov 1925
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 269; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-267; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
- Former External References:
- First Series: 22/16
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)