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IOR/L/PS/10/1003
- Record Id:
- 040-000546383
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000383
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100087667618.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/1003
- Title:
- File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.'
- Scope & Content:
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The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the Persian Gulf, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] and its relationship to the Iraq Petroleum Company Group Agreement of 1928. Also discussed in the correspondence are the interests of the Arabian Development Syndicate and Standard Oil of California.
Documents included in the volume are:
- (ff 227-244) a printed draft of an agreement between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Ruler of Kuwait
- (ff 399-406) 'Note of interview with Mr Janson and Major Holmes on Friday, 2nd February 1934'
- (ff 299-301) 'Note of conversation with Mr. Lefroy of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company on 20th April 1934, regarding the Koweit Neutral Zone'
- (ff 263-266) Letter in Arabic with translations from Ibn Saud to Abdul-Ghani Adlibi
- a map (folio 245) showing Kuwait and the neutral zone.
Correspondents include: the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Secretary of State for India; the Political Agent, Kuwait (H.R.P. Dickson); and Abdul Aziz bin Abdur Rahman Al Faisal (Ibn Saud).
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000546383 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/1003 : File 2794/1921 Pt 15 'Oil. Koweit Neutral Zone. On concessions in.' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[1006]/040-000546383
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (488 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000383
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Arabic
English - Scripts:
- Arabic
Latin - Start Date:
- 1933
- End Date:
- 1935
- Date Range:
- 3 May 1933-15 Aug 1935
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 490; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- P 2794/1921 Pt 15
- Arrangement:
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2794 (Persian Gulf: Oil) consists of seventeen files and volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/989-1005. The files and volumes are divided into eighteen parts as follows: parts 1 and 2 comprise one volume; part 3 comprises the second volume; part 3A comprises the third volume; part 3B comprises the fourth volume; part 4 comprises the fifth volume; parts 5 and 5A comprise the sixth volume; part 6 comprises the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth files and volumes; parts 7, 8 and 9 comprise the eleventh volume; part 10 comprises the twelfth file; part 12 comprises the thirteenth file; part 14 comprises the fourteenth volume, part 15 comprises the fifteenth volume; part 16 comprises the sixteenth file; part 17 comprises the seventeenth volume. There are no parts 11 and 13.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)