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[Un-numbered file] 'Diary of Colonel Hamilton's Visit to Nejd 1918' [‎63r] (125/206)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (102 folios). It was created in 19 Sep 1917-28 Dec 1918. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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to spend in Aneyaah. The Ameer invited us all
to lunch and dinner. Our Bedouins ate enor
mously the food being excellent. The Ameer has
been very good to us. Feeling in Aneyzah is,
I thin, strongly for us.
After dinner at 5 p.m, this evening 1 e
walked in the bazaars. I saw nothing worth buyi
ing, but was again struck with the picturesque
and truly imposing architecture of the pala-
zzos of the great ones with their adjacent gar
dens all highly cultivated,the walls being
covered with vines,and surrounded by fig trees
pomegranates,peaches,etc. Some of the gardens
looked as though they would afford delightful
retreats in sultry weather. On the whole,Aney
zah is a place to rave about when you come in
from the desert. It is quite unspoilt by con
tact with modernism. I should say there were nc
paupers: I waw no signs of suqualor. The state
of civilization of Aneyzah shows that the Arab
even when left entirely to himself and almost
isolated from the world of progress does not
altogether let himself go,but retains some
ideals and aspirations. He does not become
brutalized or insensible to the amehities of
life and social intercourse or generally to
the softening influences of comfort and ele
gance. Some of the rooms of the houses I was
shown through w r ere beautiful, one, a coffee-
room of Abdulaziz,the retired Ameer, was
particularly artistic. It was about 18 ft.
broad and 30 ft.long. Hound the room were
open corridors and the room itself had gallery
with^i grille under the roof, a sort of prome
nade for the ladies whocome to see and hear
what goes on in the coffee hall below. Some
texts from the Koran were artistically painted
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The file includes a printed copy (folios 16-41) of the diary of Colonel Robert Edward Hamilton's ( 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) visit to Najd in 1918 on a mission to Ibn Sa'ud. The file also includes the original typed copy (folios 43-102) of the diary.

The diary describes his trip from Kuwait to Najd and records the topography, distance travelled each day, temperature and barometric pressure and people encountered. The principal correspondents in the volume include: 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 (Robert Edward Hamilton); the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad (Percy Zachariah Cox); the Chief Political Officer, Baghdad; and the Ruler of Najd (Ibn Sa'ud).

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1 volume (102 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 103; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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[Un-numbered file] 'Diary of Colonel Hamilton's Visit to Nejd 1918' [‎63r] (125/206), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/5/104, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100049142626.0x00007e> [accessed 14 March 2025]

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