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'File 82/1 IV (F 79) Anglo Persian Oil Company Arab Side (Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd)' [‎105r] (217/419)

The record is made up of 1 file (204 folios). It was created in 30 Oct 1925-27 Sep 1932. 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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Vy dear Sir Hugh, t- 1 ^
I thank you ""or your letter of the 22nd f T une which
I have received this minute and hasten to send a reply to
catch the outgoing nail today.
I a T n so sorry to learn that Col. Dickson was mistaken
and that you are not going hone until the end of July, which
will deny ne the opportunity of meeting you at ^.haiba in the
early future.
Unfortunately 1 am finding it exceedingly difficult
to get away just at the moment but I do not think that the
subject of Toweit oil development requires immediate discus
sion with you, although I am very anxious to consult you
before you go home and generally to place you fully au fait
with our proposals regarding Koweit.
The nosition at nresent, briefly, is this. I had
two long interviews with the Sheikh in which I was very soon
able to realize that our precipitous departure from H.E's
territory last Anril -/ithout havin ^ given him adequate reasons
to account for our rithdrawal, had created a very bad^imnres-
sion and led to a complete misunderstanding. I explained to
that it was due to a broad geological policy and that we
now had a certain amount of reolorrical indorsation about r owe it
but that it ras information which in itself was inconclusive
and we were anxious to correlate it -dth the information we
were obtaining from actual drilling in Kuh-i-Mund and the
unique -^ecloglcal information which we have accumulated over
many years of the whole of the surround!ag country. - added
that this was the reason we had asked for a short extension
of the oeriod, to give us the onpo^tunity to conclude our
research, and I offered the Sheikh ^5.20,000 n.a. ( and was

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The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Department, the Colonial Office and the Secretary of State at 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 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 Political Agents at Kuwait and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives. Main subjects are the negotiations for oil concessions mainly in Kuwait, but also in Bahrain and Nejd [Najd, Jubail, Saudi Arabia] against the competitor Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, represented by Major Frank Holmes, and a geological exploration of Kuwait by APOC.

The volume also includes a draft agreement on the oil exploration license in Kuwait, in Arabic and English, dated 13 August 1932, between Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, ruler of Kuwait, and APOC (folios 120-131), and a Map of 'Kuwait Bay' on folio 132A.

Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential and there are some documents in Arabic.

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1 file (204 folios)
Arrangement

The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the beginning of the volume, on folio 3, and notes at the end (folios 193-199).

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The main foliation is in pencil, encircled and 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 commences at the front cover with 1, then 1A and 1B; 2 and 2A; 3-128; 129 and 129A; 130, 131, 132 and 132A and then it carries on until 203, which is the last number given on the back cover. A second foliation sequence runs between ff. 3-190; these numbers are also written in pencil, are not circled and can be found in the same position as the main sequence.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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