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'22/16 Mr Philby's Mission to Najd - 1918.' [265r] (529/538)
The record is made up of 1 volume (269 folios). It was created in 2 Feb 1918-2 Nov 1925. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Lr. x^hilby's exolsaiation on item Ko.46...
item 46 relating to the furchase of liquors etc.s-
I m inclined to agree vdth the Secretary of State that,
considering that the personnel of the Mission after the lirst six
reeks or so consisted of myself alone, the supply of spirituous
liquors charged for in my accounts was excessive. It is therefore
with pardonable satisfaction that I can assure him- and a reference
to p. 128 Vol. I of “The Heart of .irabia' 1 and other passages therein
bear me out in that assurance - that in point of fact the sum total
of spirituous liquor consumed by the Mission during twelve months
was only half a bottle of brandy. I would ask him nevertheless to
condone the supply of liquor laid in at the inception of the
Mission on the ground that the latter was originally desigiei to
comprise a British personnel of five or six members including Lr.
(after.’aria Brigadier (leneral and now oir Holand) Storrs. Ly
solicitude for the health of my colleagues amid the rigours of an
Arabian climate is the sole ground on which I can seek to justify
so generous a provision of comforts at the expense of His Majesty’s
Government and my only regret is that I am unable to throw light on
the ultimate fate of that cargo except that it was accidentally ,
discovered some time in 1918 in the cellars of the British
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
at Kuwait. For all I know to the contrary it may still be there.
The amount covered by this item is not Rs. 157/1/6 as suggested
in the Colonial Office comments but, I regret to say, as much as
Rs. 199/12/- and I may add that the charge would of course have
been set off against travelling allowances had the latter Deen
claimed.
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the Najd mission to Ibn Sa‘ūd by Harry St John Bridger Philby, Political Officer. Correspondence mainly concerns the dispatch and arrival of supplies for St John Philby: tea, tobacco, film, ammunition and arms, camping equipment, and medical supplies. After some correspondence (folio 64) St John Philby, signs his name and 'Pol Dept' thereafter. St John Philby also requests tents for Ibn Sa‘ūd. After St John Philby's mission is finished, arrangements are made to send his kit to his brother Ralph Montague Philby, Naval Transport Officer, Basra.
Correspondence also discusses the dispatch of geological and natural history specimens to the Bombay Natural History Society. The volume includes correspondence in Arabic with Ahmad El Jaber Es Subah and Abdullah en-Nafisi who were helping with the supply operation.
Correspondents include: Harry St John Bridger Philby, Political Department, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait; (Percy Gordon Loch; Daniel Vincent McCallum) Director of Sea Transport, Basrah; Deputy Civil Commissioner, Basrah Wilayet; Officer Commanding, H.T. Kalika .
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- 1 volume (269 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 269; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-267; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- '22/16 Mr Philby's Mission to Najd - 1918.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:156v, 158r:268v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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