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'File 53/32 III (D 53) Kowait - Miscellaneous' [129r] (262/486)
The record is made up of 1 volume (240 folios). It was created in 3 Sep 1912-4 Jun 1928. It was written in English. 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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HIS MAJE STY IHE KIH3-
With profound respect and the greatest of than.cs I beg to
express to Your Most Gracious Majesty, my appreciation of that
great honour and favour which Year Gracious Majesty has been
pleased to confer on me in inviting me to come here into Your
presence. Ihis great favour come from Your excessive Kindness
and it is the occasion of the greatest honour and presence to
me to be allowed to come into Your presence. Verily it is the
greatest of favours and honours I could get from Your Most
Gracious Majesty.
Likewise with profound respect and the greatest of thanks,we
beg to express to Your Most Gracious Majesty from the insiae of
our hearLs - from myself both personally and as representative
of my uncle the -rtuler of Kuwait, Shaikh Salim al Mubarak as
Sabah and all his subjects,our hearty congratulations on the
victorious termination of the fiercest of wars. This has given
us all the greatest pleasure and joy and happiness and we tharvc
God for this victory.
We request from the great kindness and mercy of Your Most
Gracious Majesty that we will always Insha Allah (D .V.) be the
receivers of the Kindness and mercy of Your Most Gracious
Majesty and of all your subjects. We asK God -oo preserve you,
to protect us and be Kind to us, and to enable us to give you
complete satisfaction.
.We request that Your Ma jesty will be graciously pleased to
accent;- as a tOKen of greeting from ShaiKh Salim
1 Sword (gold hilt and scabbard) the blade of which
belonged to a former Sultan (Shah) of Persia and
1 Dagger (gold hilt and scabbard).
Both these belonged to ShaiKh MubaraK; also a bay Arab horse
as a memento from ShaiKh Ahmad.
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- Content
This file contains correspondence related to a number of different matters all of which concern Kuwait. Of particular interest are the following:
- Correspondence between Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, the British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Paul Wilberforce Harrison of the American Mission, November 1912 (ff. 16-17).
- A sketch map of the area south west of Riadh [Riyadh], October 1913 (f. 22).
- Correspondence regarding William Henry Shakespear's desire to travel in Arabia and details of his subsequent trip, November 1913-March 1914 (ff. 23-26, f. 30, ff. 43-46).
- Discussions between British officials regarding whether or not the ruler of Kuwait should be addressed as 'His Excellency', May-August 1914 (f. 50 and ff. 54-70).
- A letter from William George Grey, British 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. in Kuwait that discusses reasons for remaining Arab support for the Ottoman Empire in the war, June 1915 (ff. 86-90).
- Information concerning Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ's visit to London, December 1919 (ff. 125-136).
- A report concerning an attack on two Kuwaiti subjects and four Najdis in which three of the party were killed by two assailants, March 1925 (f. 169). A list of items stolen from the party is also included (f. 170).
- A detailed briefing note compiled by James Carmichael Moore, the British 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. in Kuwait, December 1927. The note contains profiles of several prominent figures in Kuwait (and the surrounding region) and information on the state's schools, economy and trade (ff. 217-226). The note also contains a map of Kuwait and its neighbouring areas (f. 221) and details of the different types of shipping vessels used in the country with hand-drawn sketches of the different vessels (ff. 223-226).
- A letter from Lionel Berkeley Holt Haworth, the British Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. discussing Britain’s desire to keep Kuwait separate from Iraq and outlining the rationale behind such a policy, April 1928 (ff. 231-232).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (240 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of topics discussed in the file is contained on folios 4-6.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: Formerly a bound correspondence volume, the file's sheets have been unbound and are now loose.
Foliation: The file has an incomplete foliation sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete sequence, which should be used for cataloguing, is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 2, and ends on the last folio of writing, on number 237.
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- 'File 53/32 III (D 53) Kowait - Miscellaneous'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:12v, 13v:15v, 16v:19r, 20r:21v, 23r:47r, 48r:189v, 189ar:189av, 190r:214v, 214ar:214av, 215r:220v, 222r:237v, i-r:i-v, back-i
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