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This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the India Office, the Board of Trade and others, relates to ‘Arabia’. It contains letters, telegrams, minutes of meetings, reports and press cuttings on:

• Subjects raised between the Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, his advisor Colonel T E Lawrence, the India Secretary Edwin Montagu, the Viceroys of India Lord Chelmsford [Frederic Thesiger] and the Earl of Reading [Rufus Isaacs], the Foreign Secretary Earl Curzon [George Curzon], the High Commissioner for Egypt Viscount Allenby [Edmund Allenby]; HMG Representatives in Jeddah, Cairo, the Persian Gulf at Bushehr, Muscat and Baghdad
• Treaty of Sèvres and Treaty of Versailles, efforts to get the King of Hejaz Hussein Bin Ali Al Hashemi to sign them, as well as an impending settlement with Turkey
• Amir Faisal Bin Hussein Al Hashemi of Iraq's satisfaction after meetings with Churchill and Lawrence
• Relations between Amir Faisal and France
• Meeting between General G Haddad Pasha and Monsieur Berthelot of the French Foreign Ministry
• Subsidies for Arab chiefs, including for King Hussein, Ibn Saud, the Imam of Yemen Yahya Mohammad Hamid Al Din and the Ruler of Asir Ali Bin Mohammad Al Idrisi
• Recalcitrant behaviour of the Ruler of Sharjah Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmad Al Qasimi and the Ruler of Ajman Sheikh Humaid Bin Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi concerning loans for Indian pearl divers
• Kuwait trade report with detailed statistical information
• Suppression of arms trafficking in the Gulf
• Reports on the situation in Persia [Iran]
• Cessation of gold shipments to Bahrain
• Translation of letters concerning oil, dated in 1915 and 1913 from the Ruler of Bahrain Sheikh Isa Bin Ali Al Khalifa and the Ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah Al Sabah
• Anglo-Persian Oil Company concession, including its ambitions in Arabia
• Oil concession in Hejaz
• Relations with King Hussein and the negotiation of a proposed treaty
• Imperial Ottoman Bank
• Request from the Amir Abdulla Bin Hussein Al Hashemi of Transjordan for RAF pilot training in Cairo or Ramallah
• Tense relations between King Hussein and Ibn Saud and the regional outlook of Ibn Saud
• Questions of whether to supply an armoured car and combat aircraft for King Hussein
• Fears of King Hussein that Wahhabis are planning to attack
• Report on the political situation in Nejd
• Supply of arms to the Idrisi of Asir
• Employment of Captain Fazl Al Din as British representative in Hodedah [Al Hudaydah]
• Salif and Kamaran salt deposits and the interest of the Abyssinian Corporation and the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited; a map of the Nile Valley, and a chart of the Red Sea
• Repairs to Red Sea lighthouses
• Report on HMG's relations with the Imam of Yemen
• Cotton growing in South Arabia
• Geological mission to Sultanate of Makalla [Al Mukalla] with colour maps
• National status of the Sultanate of Lahej, and the Sultan Sir Abd Al Karim II Bin Al Fadl Al Abdali’s application for compensation
• Application for relief in the UK for Yemeni seaman Ali Abdul Hashady, and prisoner Abdul Saeed
• Subsidies to the Sultan of Muscat Taimur Bin Faisal, his desire to abdicate and his administrative reforms
• Report on negotiations between HMG and the Sultan
• Report on the Muscat Levies
• Guardianship of the Holy Places and the question of a Caliphate
• Visits to Mecca by HM's Muslim troops
• Quarantine at Kamaran
• Reports of a planned Wahhabi attack on pilgrims during the Hajj
• Re-employment of HMG’s late representative in Mecca Nasir Al Din Ahmad
• Article by Colonel Lawrence entitled ‘With Feisal at Court and Afield’
• Letter from W E Lee-Warner concerning Sayyed Mohammad Bin Aqil, partly in the Malay language