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File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud' [260r] (95/308)
The record is made up of 1 item (154 folios). It was created in 26 Dec 1915-12 Dec 1916. 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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Translation of a letter from Ibn Sand to Sir Percy Cox dated
3rd Septerrber 101o.
After C omp1iraent s.
With a cordial and respectful hand I have received your
letter dated the 15th July 1910 -14th Ramzan 1334 and was
pleased to hear of your good health. All that Your Honour
communicated to me has been understood by your sincere friend.
The August letter of His Excellency Lord Chelmsford,
the new Viceroy and Governor General of India,which Your
Honour enclosed together with the Arabic translation thereof
has reached me safely. I thank you very much. I am greatly
obliged and thankful for its highly valued contents. I prey
God that His Excellency's footsteps may be blessed with good
fortune and prosperity.
I beg to pepresent to you that I was tardy in answer
ing His Excellency's auspicious letter.As owing to my not
being acquainted with your ceremonial customs I was not sure
whether I should answer at once or after a short while,and
owing to my intimacy with Your Honour I was anxious to obtain
your advice on the point.
Your Honour informed me with regard to events and
news in a previous letter despatched through His Majesty's
Consul at Bahrain,all of which news I have understood thorough
ly. Your Honour also stated with reference to news from the
Hejaz that El Idrisi,assisted by the Sher±f,had captured the
town of Kunfudah,one of the worts of the Red Sea,with its
citadel and the troons there. This is very likely true because
the Idrisi has been disobedient to the orders of the Turks
from the beginning,and according to what I have heard,his
ideas are sound and he is zealous,bd»th for the Arabs and for
Islam: and truly one who possesses zeal for the Arabs and for
Islam is bound to fight the Turks.
You went on to inform me that the newspaner A1 Muk-
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Part 5 concerns Britain's relations with Bin Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], and, to a lesser extent, Britain's relations with the Grand Sherif [Sharif] of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī]. It includes the following:
- a copy of a treaty between the British government and Bin Saud, dated 26 December 1915, plus a copy of the ratified treaty, dated 18 July 1918;
- reports of an agreement between Bin Saud and Bin Rashid [Saʿūd bin ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Āl Rashīd];
- details of munitions that are to be given by the British to Bin Saud;
- translated copies of correspondence between the High Commissioner, Cairo, and the Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- discussion as to whether the British should press Bin Saud to take specific action to assist both the British and the recently deposed Grand Sherif of Mecca;
- details of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox's meetings with Bin Saud.
The principal correspondents are the following:
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (as both 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 Chief Political Officer, Indian Expeditionary Force D);
- Bin Saud;
- Viceroy of India [Charles Hardinge, succeeded by Frederic John Napier Thesiger];
- Secretary of State for India [Joseph Austen Chamberlain];
- High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Arthur Henry McMahon);
- Grand Sherif of Mecca [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī];
- Foreign Office;
- Secretary to 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. 's Political Department (Arthur Hirtzel).
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- File 2182/1913 Pt 5 'Arabia Nejd: Policy Bin Saud'
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- 213r:331v, 333r:362v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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