IOR/R/15/5/314

The file contains papers of the Political Agency, Kuwait, relating to the American Mission.

It includes correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the following: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Dr C S G Mylrea of the American Mission, Kuwait, and Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah, Ruler of Kuwait; regarding the American Mission purchasing one acre of land adjoining their property.

It also includes:

• correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and Mylrea, regarding debts owed by the American dentist Dr Reasoner
• correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Bushire, and between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and Reverend John Van Ess of the American Mission, Basrah [Basra], concerning Van Ess’s request for the texts of certain agreements and treaties for the purposes of lecturing in America
• correspondence between the Political Agency, Kuwait, and L D Scott and others, relating to the presentation of a gift for Reverend Mr Barny, who is leaving the Gulf after forty years in the American Mission to Arabia
• correspondence between the Political Agent, Kuwait, and Dr P W Harrison, American Mission, Kuwait, concerning a petition received by the Ruler of Kuwait signed by a number of Kuwaitis, appealing against the return of Dr Mylrea as Mission Doctor

There are three folios of documents in Arabic in the file: a letter (for which there is a copy translated into English) and land deeds from Sheik Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah, Ruler of Kuwait. The text of two copies of Articles 5-7 of the Kuwait section of the Anglo-Turkish Agreement of 1913, also included in the file, is in French.