'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil' [116r] (240/422)
The record is made up of 1 volume (207 folios). It was created in 1 May 1934-1 Jul 1934. 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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TaAHSLATlOH ,
fid
iol/5S
Hi aletry of foreign Affaire,
Mecca,
29th iiuharram 1553.
13th -ay 1954,
Your Sxcellency f
After Gorapliiaents 9
fhe honour to receipt of
I have
e /
Your Excellency's note Ho,65 (1802/418/74) of the 28th
April 1964 ( 14 auhartfan 135S), which you addressed to
me in accordance with the instructions of your Qoyernment,
with its enclosures the 8 Anglo-Turkish ConrentionS
concluded on the 29th July 1915 and the 9th March 1914,
regarding the specification of certain "boundaries of
areas and territories in ^astern Arabia,
difference between the position at the time of the
aignature of the 8 Conventions mentioned above and the
position which came after and of the great developments
which have taken place in Arobia itself and which led to
the alteration of the frontier line laid down in the
Convention of the 89th July 1913 between the dominions
of His Majesty the King and Kuwait, There is no doubt
that the same developments ( besides the considerations
of which I had an opportunity of mentioning same to if our
Excellency during our friendly conversation of ednesday
last 3rd May) put the Government of His Majesty the King
in a position of being compelled to state their inability
"fiour Excellency is not unaware of the great
/ to
H ,S« the 3,B, M*F* of O.B,
Jedda.
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- Content
The volume contains correspondence between 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 Bahrain and the 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. at Bushire, the 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. in London, the Shaikh of Qatar, ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, and the Foreign Office in regard to the southern borders of Qatar, the Qatar oil concession and the relations of the Shaikhdom with ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd), King of Saudi Arabia. There is also correspondence regarding an air reconnaissance of Qatar to be carried out via RAF flying boats, which took place on 9 May 1934, including reports of the reconnaissance (folios 147-154).
Some of the documents in the volume are marked as secret or confidential.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (207 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume, (folios 196-202). The file notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the volume; they give brief description of the correspondence with reference numbers in red crayon, which refer back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation is written in pencil, circled, 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'. of each folio.The numbering begins on the title page, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 207.
There is another foliation sequence, incomplete.
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- IOR/R/15/1/629
- Title
- 'F.85 File 82/27-IV Qatar Oil'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1r:90v, 91v:118v, 121r:168v, 169v, 172v, 174v, 175v:206v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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