"١/١ المجلد I العلاقات الكويتية السعودية" [و‎‎١‎١‎٩] (٦٠٨/٢٤٨)

Personal letter
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From - Lieut* Col* Ii.R.P.DioIcson, Political Agent 3 Ruv:ai t ,
~o ~ His Majesty ULdul ’Asiz Lin T Abdur Ratmian al-Faisal
' as-Sa'ud, King of the Hijaz.Nejd and
Dependencies* Llecca*
Dated the 6th August 193^ (4th RaM f Thani 1351 }*
Your Majesty,
I have the honour to acknowledge Your Majesty’s
personal letter to me dated the 13th Safer 1351 (17-6-32) which
gave me veWgreat satisfaction.
The object of my writing this letter is to inform
Your Majesty of the sad anlsudden death of Sir Hugh Biscoo
Political Resident in the Persian Gulf*
Ye died on the 19th July last at 3.30 A.1*1. of a
sudden heart attach, whilst he was on board II.L.S. Bideford, and
tr
when he was proceeding to Shargah on the Trucial Coast to nego
tiate an agreement for an ^ir station there.
l:o doubt Your Majesty will be grieved to hear of
the death of such a High Officer of His Majesty’s
of such a great personal friend of Your Majesty’s
written by Almighty God cannot be altered, and no
Go ve rnme nt, an G
, but what is
doubt his time
had come.
It was indeed a great pleasure and honour to meet
no ole sou uis Rop wl iighnecs tiie Amir Faisal, and other wiembers
o- x0ur Majesty’s Royal Family, when they passed through Muwait
last month* I had never met Your Majest37-’s second son before
and was agreeably surprised and charmed to find him so well read
and with such full knowledge of world affairs* l.my God give
him long life*
Very little reliable news reaches us here of Ibn
Rifadah and events in the North of Hijaz. I pray God to grant
. May
the
Your Majesty victory over him and over all other enemies