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  • … Portrait photograph of King Faisal of Iraq, seated. … GB/PERS/B/027 … Iraq … Photograph of King Faisal, taken 1921 …
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    GB/PERS/B/027
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  • … Portrait photograph of King Faisal of Iraq, seated. … GB/PERS/B/028 … Iraq … Photograph of King Faisal, taken 1921 …
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    GB/PERS/B/028
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  • … Duplicate portrait photograph of King Faisal of Iraq, seated used in Vol II of Florence Bell's … Bell?. … GB/PERS/B/029 … Iraq … Photograph of King Faisal, taken 1921 …
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    GB/PERS/B/029
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  • … available for this item. … Baghdad … Letter from Ghazi bin al-Feisal to Gertrude Bell …
    GB/1/3/2/21
    Letters
  • … Garbetts and Mrs Slater, and Officers at the Coronation of King Faisal in Sarai Courtyard - Government buildings. … … … Photograph of attendees at the coronation of King Faisal, Baghdad, 1921 …
    GB/PERS/B/017
    Photographs
  • … all along the frontier. So we took another road to Bin Kudra, crossed a hill and came down into the Diala [Diyala (Sirwan)] Valley. We got to Bin Kudra at 3.15 and camped near the village. I went off to …
    GB/2/12/3/26
    Diary
  • … to the 26th of June, 1921. … GB/1/1/2/1/17/19 … June 23 Faisal arrives in Basrah [Basrah, Al (Basra)] today. We've thrown our die - the next few days … for the Basrah area. They were ready to accept a common king, and in conversation they declared that Faisal would …
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    GB/1/1/2/1/17/19
    Letters
  • … vernacular paper which gave the first full account of Faisal's arrival at Basrah [Basrah, Al (Basra)] and the quite admirable speech which he made at a … to Mr Cornwallis he had spoken to Faisal, and he was the king they wanted and that was all right! Darling old thing. …
    GB/1/1/2/1/17/20
    Letters
  • … with extremely well-melted grease and Sir Percy and Faisal are scoring great triumphs. On Monday 11th the … than we could have hoped. They unanimously declared Faisal King and charged the Ministry of the Interior with the … of his faits et gestes since he landed in Basrah [Basrah, Al (Basra)]. The truth is one doesn't mind what sort of crowd …
    GB/1/1/2/1/17/22
    Letters
  • … out soon and spend the night at Shahraban [Miqdadiyah, Al], where the newly appointed Qaimmaqam is a Baghdadi whom I like very much. Today Sidi Faisal returned from Mosul [Mawsil, Al]. He arrived at 9 a.m. … diwan tent pitched outside the station in which the King stood and shook hands with all his subjects. Then he …
    GB/1/1/2/1/17/34
    Letters
  • … Ctesiphon abt 1922. King Faisal in dark uniform, Gertrude in centre. Gertrude Bell (centre, holding hat), Faisal and others in archway. … GB/PERS/B/019 … Ctesiphon … …
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    GB/PERS/B/019
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  • … way. Well, we've had a terrific week, but we've got our king crowned and Sir Percy and I agree that we are now half … presented to us at the last moment and the rejoinder of Faisal and Sir Percy. H.M.G. climbed down at once, I may say … Sa'dun chiefs who was sitting by him, said "Hadha al hachi! - that's the talk!" Well I suppose it is the …
    GB/1/1/2/1/17/29
    Letters
  • … last week in the agonies of Cabinet making - they're over; Faisal's first Cabinet is formed. On the whole we're well … energetic and well trained Xian doctor of Mosul [Mawsil, Al] who becomes Minister of Health, a new portfolio. I must … yesterday morning at the formal announcement from the King to the Naqib, appointing him Prime Minister. The Naqib, …
    GB/1/1/2/1/17/31
    Letters
  • … by S. Talib - that on the way down to Basrah [Basrah, Al (Basra)], when we went away, I had said to persons not named that the object of the Conference was to declare Faisal king. I alluded to this and told the Naqib it was entirely …
    GB/1/1/2/1/17/11
    Letters
  • … [Ramadi, Ar]. Fakhri Jamil Zadah and I left at 4 am but Faisal was a little in front of us. We caught him up at … that I might photograph his arrival at Fallujah [Fallujah, Al]. Outside that village a couple of big tents were pitched … and gave him fair warning that now that he was practically king he didn't intend to stand any nonsense and anyone who …
    GB/1/1/2/1/17/25
    Letters
  • … GB/2/11/3/24 … Wed March 24 [24 March 1909] Hussein has had 20 children, 12 of whom have died - not to … is thelleth - camels won't eat much of it. Muhammad, Hussein and I with a boy called Hussein as a guide set off at … Muhammad sang his ode to the motor and I God Save the King. Then we came to Bardawil which I mapped. It is an oval …
    GB/2/11/3/24
    Diary
  • … the lips of one of the leading notables of Basrah [Basrah, Al (Basra)]. "Wallahi!" he observed "Sir Percy Cox  has forty … currency to the word by announcing in the Council that Faisal should be king of a constitutional democratic state. He did this with …
    GB/1/1/2/1/17/28
    Letters
  • … to the rights of citizenship which I have acquired. The King is well again - I told you he had an attack of … "But I told them "he said "that you were min ahl al bait - one of the household - and if I wanted to see you I … Public Security, was announced. I said I would go away as Faisal would want to talk to him in private, but he wouldn't …
    GB/1/1/2/1/18/3
    Letters
  • … told tales and repeated verses the whole day. Fawwaz and Hussein listening with delight, repeating the last word and … Fehir[?] Ammaliyyeh Mukallfeh[?] Aridiyyeh Aminiyyeh … Al-Rahaliyyah … Diary entry by Gertrude Bell …
    GB/2/11/3/23
    Diary
  • … a delightful day. We motored to Mahmudiyah [Mahmudiyah, Al], half way to Hillah [Hillah, Al] where we found our … cultivation after an interval of so many hundred years. Faisal sent for me that day, but as I was out I telephoned a … has to come out into the open as an independent Islamic king for all the country to rally round him, Kurds as well as …
    GB/1/1/2/1/18/4
    Letters