IOR/L/PS/10/1166/1

The correspondence relates to the treaty negotiations which took place at Mecca between British Government representatives and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also written in the correspondence as Bin Saud], King of the Hejaz and the Sultan of Nejd from November 1926 until May 1927, when the Treaty of Jeddah was signed, thus replacing its predecessor, the Anglo-Najdi friendship treaty of 1915.

The main correspondents are the following successive chief negotiators: Stanley Rupert Jordan, British Consul and Agent at Jeddah (assisted by George Habib Antonius, translator); and Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, His British Majesty's Envoy to Ibn Saud.

The earliest document is a 1918 Foreign Office Memorandum on British commitments to Ibn Saud. It includes a detailed account of the treaty negotiations, 1913-1915, between Bin Saud and Sir Percy Cox, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf, as well as the drafts and final text of the friendship treaty between the British Government and Ibn Saud, as signed on 26 December 1915 and ratified on 18 July 1916.

There is one item of correspondence in French dated November 1930. It is a letter of enquiry to the Foreign Office, from the French Ambassador to London, regarding French treaty negotiations with Ibn Saud and the latter's demand for assistance in obtaining a renewal of the supply of revenues from the Haramain Waqfs, which are Muslim endowments for the upkeep and improvement of religious shrines in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.