Offices: Individuals.

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the Foreign Office, India Office 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 T E Lawrence, the Prime minister David Lloyd George, the acting Foreign Secretary the Earl of Balfour [Arthur Balfour] and HMG Representatives including in Jeddah and Constantinople
• Tensions between the headman of Al Rams and the Shihuh Tribe and the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah Sheikh Sultan Bin Salem Al Qasimi
• Anglo-Persian Oil Company concessions, conventions reached with the Rulers of the Trucial States and exploration licences in Bahrain and Kuwait
• Request for the support of HMG from the Ruler of Qatar Sheikh Abdulla Bin Jasim Al Thani
• Agreement reached between Lawrence and Amir Abdulla Bin Hussein Al Hashemi of Transjordan on a draft treaty
• Draft treaty between HMG and Hejaz and the threatened abdication of King Hussein Bin Ali Al Hashemi over it
• Subsidies to King Hussein
• HMG’s refusal to allow a visit to the UK by Amir Abdulla
• Claim to the throne of Hejaz made by Sharif Ali Haidar
• French relations with Hejaz and the effect of the imprisonment in Syria of Arif Darwish
• Royal Navy actions against the slave traffic in Hejaz
• Rumoured sale of part of the Hejaz Railway
• French plan to build a railway from Jeddah to Mecca; a contract with Dr Naji Al Asil
• Jeddah situation reports
• Financial advances to General G Haddad Pasha and Amir Faisal Bin Hussein Al Hashemi
• Spread of Mudayyism in Hejaz
• Supply of aircraft and pilots to Hejaz from Italy
• Tense relations between King Hussein and Ibn Saud
• Attack by Ibn Saud on tribes between Asir and Hejaz
• Ill-treatment of British subjects and his advance on Mecca
• Expenses of the Nejd and Kuwait missions to the UK
• Agreement on a Salif salt concession between the Ruler of Asir Ali Bin Mohammad Al Idrisi and the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited
• Oil scheme in the Farasan Islands
• Ottoman public debt and the Idrisi’s contribution
• Hajj quarantine committee report, procedures at Kamaran Island and a sketch map
• Pilgrimages of HM's Indian soldiers
• Red Sea lighthouses
• Rebellion in Muscat by the Yal Sa'ad Tribe
• Peace negotiations between HMG and Turkey
• Levying of tax on French ships in British Arabia and India