IOR/L/PS/12/218

The file consists largely of a report by Mr George William Rendel, Head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office in London, on his private tour to the Persian Gulf and also to Saudi Arabia at the invitation of King Ibn Saud, in February and March 1937. This personal account of his trip is preceded by a small amount of correspondence in 1936 relating to his travel arrangements, and is followed by post-tour correspondence in 1937 about the drafting and circulation of his report, on a confidential and limited basis, to the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Kuwait, the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India in the External Affairs Department and other British officials in London, India and the Middle East. The main correspondents are Mr George William Rendel of the Foreign Office and Mr John Charles Walton, Foreign and Political Secretary to the India Office in London.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.