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'File 53/32 III (D 53) Kowait - Miscellaneous' [‎129r] (262/486)

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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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This file contains correspondence related to a number of different matters all of which concern Kuwait. Of particular interest are the following:

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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