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'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [‎312r] (637/651)

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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D.O.No. 42
Office of Financial Adviser
Muscat State
27th August 1925.
■v? 1 ?
Dear AllDan,
This is to acknowledge receipt of my returned letter
and copy addressed to Sir Arnold Wilson A.P.0.0. under flying
seal. I am most worried ahout the whole thing. The letter inten
-ded to give our Oil Concessionaires advice semi-officially so
that they, could sound S.N.O. ahout the movements of a ship in
neighbouring waters "before approaching 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.
and you officially with their proposed programme . But it never
entered my head that this letter should issue without first
"being seen "by you. What happened as you may rememher is that
the letter was drafted and typed on the morning of my departure
for India. I "brought the draft round to your house "before "break
-fast and toldv hai: a letter I was most anxious for you to
see,"but the letter "being in manuscript and the hour "breakfast
time it was deemed "better to wait until typed.There were so
many letters to sign that day and so many people to see-you
will remeinber waiting lunch for me till 3.30 and it was touch
and go whether I caught the skip- that in the hurry and ezcite-
-ment the letter was overlooked and issued to P.E# 1 without
your having seen it. I feel sure you will recall the circum
stances and appreciate that I acted absolutely in good faith.
As regards the letter passing through P.H. under flying
seal I see now what did not strike me then that this course
may "be construed as not showing a proper regard on my part for
the F.R's office,"but I felt at the time that only in that way
would the object "be served conditioned "by my undivided respon-
-siMlity for the advice in the letter.
This is not written in a spirit of self justification :
"but it is worrying me a good deal to think that the Colonel
may harbour the impression that I consciously acted either in
a highhanded way vis a vis his office,or not in good faith

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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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'File 82/1 III (F 64) Prospecting licenses for Kuwait, Bahrain, Nejd, Trucial Coast and Oman' [‎312r] (637/651), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/1/620, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023603064.0x000026> [accessed 28 March 2024]

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