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'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous' [214r] (443/474)
The record is made up of 1 volume (235 folios). It was created in 29 May 1934-5 May 1937. 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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9. The ?o*n had meanwhile been d I t idea into two parties -
for and against Abdul Muttalib. In fayour of Huttalib were
the TlleiBa t owing to hie paet charity, and the local authorities
gradually dropped their interest in the case.
10. The affair was apparently engineered by the feyor of
Kuwait who t wishing in his prirate capacity to set up as a
restaurant keeper # proceeded to sweep a possible riral from his
path by spreading the base calumnies already referred to. It
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would seem not improbable that the Mayor haid/his confederate
in this sinister affair no less a personage than the Town
Lieutenant, whose attitude throughout was certainly open to
suspicion* He admitted y for inutance 9 the possession of no
less thun fourteen cats, surely a large number for a single
household, even including the quarters for his wives, and with
these as , oapital t the Mayor and himself could doubtless have
started a flourishing business in the restaurant line.
11. Iluttalib himself although officially cleared decided
that his business was bound to suffer from the base accusations
which had been made against it, wound up his afff irs ana
departed from Kuwait, whether with or without his eight cats
is not known*
I am sending a copj of this letter to Cleuson and
Stewart*
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» sent under Printed letter No .C /126 of 5th
May 1937.
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- Content
This file contains correspondence related to a number of different topics (all of which concern Kuwait).
The majority of the correspondence in the file discusses anti-Kuwaiti newspaper articles printed in the Iraqi press. A number of examples of these articles are contained in the file including some original cuttings (ff. 112a-112d).
The following topics of particular interest are also discussed in the file:
- The possibility of the Ottoman Bank or the Imperial Bank of Persia establishing a branch in Kuwait (f. 22, 26, 55, 60, 61, 97-99).
- The right of British subjects to trade in Kuwait (ff. 156-159, f. 164, f.168, f.171, f.181, f.187).
- A complaint made by the Government of Iraq concerning an incursion into Iraqi territory by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ and an armed escort (ff. 201-206).
- The education of Kuwaiti students in Iraq (ff. 122-23, f. 127).
- A proposed hunting trip by Shaikh Aḥmad to Amara in Iraq (ff. 188-189, ff. 192-193, ff. 197-200).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (235 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of the topics discussed in the file is included on folio 1B.
Serial numbers refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file: red for incoming, blue for outgoing correspondence.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound correspondence volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, and can be found 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.
The file contains the following foliation errors: 1, 1A, 1B and 1C; 112, 112A, 112B, 112C and 112D; 121 and 121A and the following omissions: 65; 179-181
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- IOR/R/15/1/506
- Title
- 'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1cv, 2r:3v, 4v:44v, 45v, 48v:57v, 58v:64v, 66r:70v, 72v, 73v, 76v:81v, 85v, 89v:93v, 96v:104v, 105v, 108v, 111v:115v, 117v:119v, 122r:124v, 126v:131v, 132v:137v, 138v:147v, 151v:155v, 157v:158r, 158r:159r, 159r:160v, 163v:178v, 182r:194v, 195v:215r, 215r:228v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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