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'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous' [36r] (84/474)
The record is made up of 1 volume (235 folios). It was created in 29 May 1934-5 May 1937. 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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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
GoUx 1 dential. Department.
EXPRESS LETTER
'N. B.—This is an ORIGINAL MESSAGE, sent hi)post to save telegraphic
expense and undue use of the wires, hut intended to he treated, on
receipt, with the same expedition as if it had heen telegraphed. To
save time and formalities it is worded and signed as if it hadheen
so despatched.]
From
Political, Kuwait.
rji 0 Resident, ^anip Bahrain.
No. C-136 Dated ^ ^ 193 5.
,, Ottanian Bank" j
A
Heferenoe your Express Letter No. 356-S dated 30th
April 1935, in reply to my Printed Letter No .C/102 dated
12th April. / v
2. When Mr. KurfeyRetired. 1st Manager of the Ottoman
Bank)came to Kuwait on 2nd March, he quite rightly called
on me and asked if he could look round Kuwait and see the
Shaikh and various merchants, with a view to his principa^i:
deeiiing whether it was worth while thinking seriously of
opening a branch of the Ottoman Bank at a later date# (Mr#
Hammond and Mr. Pickering of the Imperial Batik of Persia
and Eastern Bank respectively had already done this).
3. I told him, I saw no objection, provided he recognized
that the last word always lay with His Majesty's Govemmait.
4. The Shaikh was out in the desert hunting when Mr.Kurkgy
arrived, so the latter could do nothing#
5# As Mr. Kurkgy did not know when the Shaikh irould return
he wrote
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- Content
This file contains correspondence related to a number of different topics (all of which concern Kuwait).
The majority of the correspondence in the file discusses anti-Kuwaiti newspaper articles printed in the Iraqi press. A number of examples of these articles are contained in the file including some original cuttings (ff. 112a-112d).
The following topics of particular interest are also discussed in the file:
- The possibility of the Ottoman Bank or the Imperial Bank of Persia establishing a branch in Kuwait (f. 22, 26, 55, 60, 61, 97-99).
- The right of British subjects to trade in Kuwait (ff. 156-159, f. 164, f.168, f.171, f.181, f.187).
- A complaint made by the Government of Iraq concerning an incursion into Iraqi territory by Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ and an armed escort (ff. 201-206).
- The education of Kuwaiti students in Iraq (ff. 122-23, f. 127).
- A proposed hunting trip by Shaikh Aḥmad to Amara in Iraq (ff. 188-189, ff. 192-193, ff. 197-200).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (235 folios)
- Arrangement
File is arranged in chronological order, from earliest at beginning of the file to most recent at end.
An index of the topics discussed in the file is included on folio 1B.
Serial numbers refer to entries in the notes at the rear of the file: red for incoming, blue for outgoing correspondence.
- Physical characteristics
Condition: A bound correspondence volume.
Foliation: The file's foliation sequence commences at the first folio and terminates at the back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, 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'. side of each folio.
The file contains the following foliation errors: 1, 1A, 1B and 1C; 112, 112A, 112B, 112C and 112D; 121 and 121A and the following omissions: 65; 179-181
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- IOR/R/15/1/506
- Title
- 'File 53/32 V (D 128) Kuwait Miscellaneous'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:1v, 1ar:1cv, 2r:3v, 4v:44v, 45v, 48v:57v, 58v:64v, 66r:70v, 72v, 73v, 76v:81v, 85v, 89v:93v, 96v:104v, 105v, 108v, 111v:115v, 117v:119v, 122r:124v, 126v:131v, 132v:137v, 138v:147v, 151v:155v, 157v:158r, 158r:159r, 159r:160v, 163v:178v, 182r:194v, 195v:215r, 215r:228v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence