IOR/L/PS/10/1033

Correspondence, minutes, draft papers, and memoranda relating to the delineation of the boundary between the Kingdom of Nejd and Transjordan. The papers deal with matters such as the status of the Jauf [al-Jawf] region, the idea for a Baghdad-Haifa railway, numerous raids and counter raids along the border area, and the proposal and preparations for a conference in Kuwait to settle the boundary issue.

Correspondence is principally between officials at the India Office, Colonial Office, Foreign Office, and Admiralty. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, comes from the High Commissioner in Iraq, HM Consul in Damascus, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the High Commissioner in Palestine, and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] himself.

Documents of note in the volume include:

• 'Note on the Trans-Arabian Railway' by Major A C Griffin, Deputy Director of Railways, Iraq, 6 January 1922 (folios 385-405)
• Memorandum by Harry St John Bridger Philby on his visit to Jauf and his negotiations with tribal leaders there, 27 May 1922 (folios 367-375).

Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.