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'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [191r] (396/651)
The record is made up of 1 file (322 folios). It was created in 28 Nov 1923-9 Sep 1925. 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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.*8. 8.H.
ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE OOMPANY.
OIL
LONDON, GLASGOW
AND MOHAMMERAH.
Telegraphic address i
"ANQLOPERS."
COOES USED(
BENTLEYS AND
MCNEILL'S CODS*
IVJOHAMMERAH.
P ersian G ulf.
.14..-...a..-..12.25
My dear Colonel Pricleaux
I thanl- 3^ou for your letter D.O. IIo. 24/s of the 3 r ^
of reVmary, written on your return from a tour round the
G-ulf.
My letter to you, ITo. 1159 i n ~"tant, v. T ill
have indicated to you that I was under a misapprehension when
writing you on the JOth ultimo. I now find that ay london
office forwarded me an extract from Colonial Office letter l r o.
27441/23 of the 22na of June, 1923, to them.
It is satisfactory to learn that you are of the
opinion t\at v 'e need not regard Sheikh Hamad 's reluctance to
open negotiations with the Company too seriously, and I can
only hope that he may he induced to pay us his promised visit
very early in March; failing the opportunit: of this visit I
do not see how we can hope to conclude negotiations with him
"before the "Jlst of March.
Mackie has now returned from his visit to Bali rain and
in his last interview with SheiMi Hamad on the 23rd of January
he states that the latter discussed the question of a conces
sion with him much more openly than he had done hitherto.
Sheikh Hamad's attitude to Mackie nas that, although his father
had civen Eolmes a promise of a concession shortly "before his
deposition, he would personally prefer the Company to ^et the
concession] hut that he did not feel himself to he in a posi
tion at the moment to go hack on "Lis father's act.. Sheikh
Hamad admitted that he was much struck with Holmes' inactivity
in connection with the Eassa Concession; this in spite of the
promise he had given to Ihn Saud in the summer that he and his
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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 Sharjah, local rulers, and Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) representatives on the negotiations for oil concessions in Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd [Najd, Jubail, Saudi Arabia], Qatar, Muscat, Oman and Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. against the competitor Eastern and General Syndicate Limited, represented by Major Frank Holmes.
The volume includes the agreement on the oil exploration license in Muscat and Oman, in Arabic and English, signed on 18 May 1925, between Saiyid Taimur bin Faisal, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, and D'Arcy Exploration Company limited (folios 281-296).
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- 1 file (322 folios)
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The documents in the volume are mostly arranged in chronological order.
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The main foliation is circled in pencil, 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 begins with the first item of correspondence, on number 1, and ends with the last folio of writing, on number 314.
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- IOR/R/15/1/620
- Title
- 'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman'
- Pages
- 93r, 105r, 108r, 118r, 132r:133r, 136r:137r, 173r:174r, 186r:187r, 191r:193r, 199r:203r, 210r:216r, 220r:221r, 225r, 226r, 232r, 243r:244r, 248r:251r, 270r:275r
- Author
- Jacks, T L
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