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‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’ [27r] (64/608)
The record is made up of 1 volume (294 folios). It was created in 2 Mar 1929-9 Jul 1933. 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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PEIiSQN/iL & C0KF1 DEI^TIaL * Political
Agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
% Kuwait.
Dated the 23r& April 1921.
I have to apologize very greatly indeed
for not laving replied earlier to your charming and inter
esting letter of 10th Februaiy last which reached me early
in Larch and which gave me great pleasure.
2* I had intended writing to you a month ago,
hut three tilings came in the way, which successfully pre
vented me. Firstly, I went into camp at Araifjan for 10
days with Mrs* Dickson and the children, secondly, I had to
write up my Annual Administration Report on Kuwait which ran
into 52 pages of foolscap, and thirdly, I had to complete
and get off the Annual Kuwait Trade Report, which with its
tremendous amount of detail and figures, kept me busy for
the best part of a month.
I hope therefore you will accept the above
reasons as ray excuse for failing to wiite.
3* I am greatly looking forward to reading
your lecture on Arabia before the Royal Asiatic Society.
As I am also a member, I shall no doubt see it in the next
nournal. It is not surprising that people in England are
ignorant of the manners and customs of Arabs, and a lecture
on this subject from one speaking with authority will do
nothing but good.
4* I was keenly interested to hear about the
reception which you gave at the Hyde Park Hotel in honour
of H.M.King Bin Saud*s coronation day. Indeed I heard about
it from several other sources also, and was told it was a
great success.
5* I fully share your hopes about Colonel
Biscoe being able to visit the Fejaz before long to clear up
all misunderstandings for I am a great believer in the
saying that "More is accomplished in an hour’s conversation,
than in a year of letter writing".
Of course I shall make
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Papers concerning relations between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), and a trading blockade imposed on Kuwait by the King of Hejaz and Nejd (from September 1932, the King of the Arab Sa’udite Kingdom [Saudi Arabia]) ‘Abdul ‘Aziz bin ‘Abdur Rahman al-Faisal [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)].
The volume includes:
- Correspondence exchanged between British officials in London ( 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. , Foreign Office), 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 Kuwait (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson) 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe; Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle).
- Correspondence exchanged 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 Kuwait and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ].
- Copies of correspondence (translated into English) exchanged between the Ruler of Kuwait and the King of Hejaz and Nejd.
- Copies of food prices lists, issued by the Arabia Saoudiyah [Saudi Arabia] Government, and published in the Um-Alkura [ Umm-al-Qura ] newspaper in May 1933 (ff 280-283).
Some of the volume’s correspondence is in Arabic, accompanied by English translations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (294 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 294; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the six leading and ending flyleaves.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 3-294; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Reference
- IOR/R/15/5/109
- Title
- ‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:9v, 11r:21v, 24r:24v, 27r:40v, 42r:43v, 52r:59v, 65r:86v, 88r:88v, 99r:157v, 161r:166v, 172r:175v, 177r:194v, 197r:206v, 211r:216v, 221r:249v, 262r:279v, 284r:294v, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence