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‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’ [263r] (536/608)
The record is made up of 1 volume (294 folios). It was created in 2 Mar 1929-9 Jul 1933. It was written in English. 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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suitable translation that would make sense.
(b) The Shaikhs reply to the King, as sent to you,
has at the time of writing not been actually des
patched yet. The Shaikh on leaving for Bahrain
on 18.6.33. left the draft with his Secretary with
orders that he should
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
it to me, get any sug
gestions that I had to make incorporated, and send
it after him to Bahrain by the Air Mail of 22nd
June 1933, when it would be sent to Bin Saud after
the Shaikh had finally approved and signed it.
Actually the only advice I gave was to the effect
that the Shaikh should be extra careful of the wordin
of his letter, and that he would do well to point out
to the ring, that he could not raise his sea customs
without reference to His Majesty’s Government, owing
Cl/LUST?.
to the existence of a treaty, drawn between him and
His Majesty’s Government to this effect. I thought
it would be as well to let the King know this if in
deed he is not aware of it already.
(o) Letter ”0" has been included with fA” and ’’B”
above, because the Shaikh has referred to it in his
communication to the King.
The particular piece of history connected with
this letter is as follows:-
Immediately after the collapse of the Akhwan
rebellion in the Spring of 1930, and after the
meeting between the late Lt.-Col.Sir Hugh Biscoe
and the King at Khabari Watha, the latter, in evident
good mood at having got His Majesty’s Government to
assist him, and especially at having had the rebel-
leaders handed over to him, wrote to Shaikh Hafith
Wahba, who had repaired to Kuwait, and told him to
offer three conditions to the Shaikh of Kuwait,
anyone of which, if accepted, would be f
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Papers concerning relations between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd (later Saudi Arabia), and a trading blockade imposed on Kuwait by the King of Hejaz and Nejd (from September 1932, the King of the Arab Sa’udite Kingdom [Saudi Arabia]) ‘Abdul ‘Aziz bin ‘Abdur Rahman al-Faisal [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd)].
The volume includes:
- Correspondence exchanged between British officials in London ( 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. , Foreign Office), 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 Kuwait (Lieutenant-Colonel Harold Richard Patrick Dickson) 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. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Vincent Biscoe; Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven William Fowle).
- Correspondence exchanged 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 Kuwait and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Sir Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ].
- Copies of correspondence (translated into English) exchanged between the Ruler of Kuwait and the King of Hejaz and Nejd.
- Copies of food prices lists, issued by the Arabia Saoudiyah [Saudi Arabia] Government, and published in the Um-Alkura [ Umm-al-Qura ] newspaper in May 1933 (ff 280-283).
Some of the volume’s correspondence is in Arabic, accompanied by English translations.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (294 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 294; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located 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 foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers; nor does it include the six leading and ending flyleaves.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 3-294; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- ‘1/1 Volume I Koweit Saudi relations’
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:9v, 11r:21v, 24r:24v, 27r:40v, 42r:43v, 52r:59v, 65r:86v, 88r:88v, 99r:157v, 161r:166v, 172r:175v, 177r:194v, 197r:206v, 211r:216v, 221r:249v, 262r:279v, 284r:294v, iii-r:vi-v, back-i
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