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IOR/R/15/5/101

Record Id:

040-000242127

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-000241998

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000030

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100042848133.0x000002

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

IOR/R/15/5/101

Title:

File 8/C Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud; Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of British Blockade of Land Trade

Scope & Content:

The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, for the period April 1918 to August 1918 relating to the main topics:

Harry St John Bridger Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud.
Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of the British blockade of land trade.

The volume also includes an index (folio 192) listing key individuals and subjects mentioned in the correspondence including: the blockade; King Husain [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]; Ibn Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd]; an alleged Turkish agreement with Ibn Sa'ud; Imam Yahya [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn].

The principal correspondents in the volume include: the Political Agent, Kuwait (Gordon Percy Loch); Ibn Sa'ud; the Office of the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; the Viceroy; King Husain of the Hijaz.

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
038-000242119
040-000242127

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/15/5/94-108 : Miscellaneous Files

IOR/R/15/5/101 : File 8/C Philby's Mission to Ibn Sa`ud; Friction between Najd and Kuwait because of British Blockade of Land Trade

Hierarchy:

032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0005]/036-000241998[0001]/037-000241999[0027]/038-000242119[0008]/040-000242127

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume (191 folios)

Digitised Content:

https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000831.0x000030

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Languages:

Arabic
English

Scripts:

Arabic
Latin

Start Date:

1918

End Date:

1918

Date Range:

19 Apr 1918-2 Aug 1918

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 193; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 2-192; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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