Author
year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
Publication Date
3 May 1933-15 Aug 1935 (CE, Gregorian)
Subject
1
Type
Document
Language
ara,eng
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Pages Count
488
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
IOR/L/PS/10/1003
Record ID
vdc_100000000419.0x000383
Library Location
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.
Date
3 May 1933-15 Aug 1935 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
The volume concerns correspondence and records of meetings to discuss questions relating to oil in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, including Kuwait and the Kuwait Neutral Zone, and also Bahrain and Qatar. This includes discussion of the history and status of the Neutral Zone between Nejd and Koweit [Kuwait] and its relationship to the Iraq Petroleum Company Group Agreement of 1928. Also discussed in the correspondence are the interests of the Arabian Development Syndicate and Standard Oil of California.
Documents included in the volume are:
(ff 227-244) a printed draft of an agreement between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Ruler of Kuwait
(ff 399-406) 'Note of interview with Mr Janson and Major Holmes on Friday, 2nd February 1934'
(ff 299-301) 'Note of conversation with Mr. Lefroy of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company on 20th April 1934, regarding the Koweit Neutral Zone'
(ff 263-266) Letter in Arabic with translations from Ibn Saud to Abdul-Ghani Adlibi
a map (folio 245) showing Kuwait and the neutral zone.
Correspondents include: 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.
(Trenchard Craven Fowle); the Secretary of State for the Colonies; the Secretary of State for India; 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.
, Kuwait (H.R.P. Dickson); and Abdul Aziz bin Abdur Rahman Al Faisal (Ibn Saud).
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
Erişim Koşulları
Unrestricted
Düzenleme
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2794 (
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
: Oil) consists of seventeen files and volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/989-1005. The files and volumes are divided into eighteen parts as follows: parts 1 and 2 comprise one volume; part 3 comprises the second volume; part 3A comprises the third volume; part 3B comprises the fourth volume; part 4 comprises the fifth volume; parts 5 and 5A comprise the sixth volume; part 6 comprises the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth files and volumes; parts 7, 8 and 9 comprise the eleventh volume; part 10 comprises the twelfth file; part 12 comprises the thirteenth file; part 14 comprises the fourteenth volume, part 15 comprises the fifteenth volume; part 16 comprises the sixteenth file; part 17 comprises the seventeenth volume. There are no parts 11 and 13.
Eski Harici Referans(lar)
P 2794/1921 Pt 15
