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'File 82/27 III (F 84) APOC: Qatar Oil' [‎211r] (427/638)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (319 folios). It was created in 22 Feb 1934-30 Apr 1934. 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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m ranslatiOTi of a letter 19th '^bii KbJ i3!>2 (4th
A^ril 1934} £rtm Uiaikii x&x±s2±±3i Abdul lah bin ^anlsa
al r, hari, "^uler of vatar, to the Hon 1 bin Pmilti oel
In the T^ITiflM ^ilf. "\
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I 'ner to actoowledge the receipt of your kind
letter dated 3rfl >oril # equivalent to IPth ^hil llaj 135^,
the oontentw of #'id I have duly tmkm notice,
"''our Honour re^erttetf to ^he convrrnotioro whidh
took pl«ee net^pen us in the oreserce of Colonel Loch and
my two nom? -haikb Ali and lhaikh Haiaad In #iich you sriid
that I asked you to put in writing ifHat you told rae on
beh#?If of the Hi^h ^ritich Oovernnent. You a^raIn
referred to the arranrenenta vshi tin ytu preounec' that X had
made with Hie Hajeafcy -ling Ibn OahicT. I was nurprised to
»ee t, hat you had -nD^ed an opinion on these mat tens, which
has no shadow of truth, and haTe imarined thinrre which
have no foundation.
Then tou referred to ClauBe TV of the Traaty
"feetween me and the ' r iBritis^i Hovernnent, I a?a sure
that X have done nothing contrary to the t erwo of the
treaty referrec'. to. ^he fact that I entered into that
treaty wlicn I waa no* c^melle^ f Irrr ci rcumstances ) to
do eo, hut wade it of my own free will and faith in the
Hi^h ^ritieh Govermient, wJ-io are famous for giving freedom
and peace to all their allies and friends^ for the
Protect Ion of their rlfehtc end ^or treating then ^11, ie
evidence of my ho neat intentions and reliance on the
High Byitiafc <H>verm.ien t. I am eure that ny relal ions
with Hie Hajeaty Kin^ Ibn Sa'ud in no way infringe the
spirit of the "rea^-r or affects ray relations with the
High British Government; on the contrary I thinlt thgft it
is

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The volume contains correspondence and notes of meetings between 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 Bahrain and 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 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 and ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Shaikh of Qatar, the Foreign Office, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and H.M.'s Ministry at Jedda in regard to the southern borders of Qatar, the Qatar oil concession and the relations of the Shaikhdom with the King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). There are documents in Arabic, mainly letters to and from the Sheikh of Qatar. Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential.

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1 volume (319 folios)
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The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume (folios 305-311). The notes refer to documents within the volume; they give a brief description of the correspondence with a reference number in blue or red crayon or ink, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.

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The main foliation is in pencil in circled numbers, in the top right of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. The numbering starts starts on the first folio of writing with 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D; and runs through to 312, which is the last number given on the last folio of the volume. There is a blank page at the beginning and three at the end of the volume.There is also another sequence, which is incomplete, written in pencil, in the top right corner, starting with 39 on folio 37 and ending with 299 on folio 312.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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