Offices: Foreign.

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the Foreign Office relates to ‘Arabia’, especially the affairs of the King of Hejaz Hussein Bin Ali Al Hashemi. 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 Foreign Secretary Earl Curzon [George Curzon], the High Commissioner for Egypt Viscount Allenby [Edmund Allenby] the High commissioner for Palestine Viscount Samuel [Herbert Samuel]; HMG Representatives in Jeddah, Cairo and Constantinople; and the Prime Minister of France Aristide Briand
• Future of Arab countries and the ‘Arab question’; contacts between King Hussein and the League of Nations; a report by Dr Alois Musil
• Mission by Colonel Lawrence to the Hejaz, his costs and expenses
• Negotiations between HMG and King Hussein and further drafts of a recognition treaty; reference to a treaty from 1915
• Planned visit by Edward Prince of Wales
• Meeting between Sharif Abdul Majed Bin Ali Haidar and HMG Representatives
• Fighting between Hejaz, Ibn Saud and Abdulla Bin Mutʿib Al Rashidi with attacks by Ibn Saud on Medina
• Military position of King Hussein
• Supply of Italian aircraft to Jeddah; King Hussein’s plan to use them in Al Khurma
• Raids into Sinai by Arabs from northern Hejaz
• Situation reports from Jeddah on the internal affairs of Hejaz; oil concessions; the Hejaz Railway
• Monetary advances to General G Haddad Pasha
• King Hussein’s subsidies and demand for gold
• Interview with Abdulla Araishi
• Closing of the Imperial Ottoman Bank branch in Jeddah and Ottoman public debt
• Geological mission to Sultanate of Makalla [Al Mukalla] with a report and maps
• Red Sea lighthouses at Abu Ali, Jebel Al Tair and Jebel Zubair
• Stewardship of King Hussein over the Holy places
• Collection of Haramein waqfs
• Hajj pilgrims from India; and a visit to Japan by Colonel Sheikh Siddiq Rasul Al Qadiri concerning pilgrims from China and Russia
• Opening of the Kamaran quarantine station