IOR/L/PS/10/1236

The volume concerns the mission of Sir Gilbert Falkingham Clayton in 1928 to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of the Hejaz [al-Ḥijāz] and of Najd and its Dependencies. The purpose of the mission was to conduct negotiations concerning the frontier between Ibn Saud's territories and Iraq and Trans-Jordan, and to discuss relations between the states.

In addition to India Office correspondence and memoranda, the file includes correspondence from: the Colonial Office, the High Commissioner for Iraq, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Foreign Office, HM Consul and Agent, Jeddah, and Ibn Saud.

The papers include: draft instructions to Clayton prepared by the Colonial Office; Air Ministry 'Memorandum on Air Matters in which Ibn Saud and His Majesty's Government are Mutually Interested' (folios 379-385), and 'Brief History of Negotiations with Persia' (folios 386-388); memorandum entitled 'Situation in Najd', by Captain John Bagot Glubb, Administrative Inspector, to the Ministry of the Interior, Government of Iraq, containing remarks on the character of Ibn Saud, and discussion of whether Ibn Saud had been the instigator of tribal raids on Iraq; correspondence concerning the inclusion in the mission of British officials in Iraq (Lieutenant-Colonel Kinahan Cornwallis, Adviser to the Ministry of the Interior, and Glubb); the defence of the frontier zone; and the export of ammunition to the Hejaz.

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 contained by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.