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and address was written on the cover. Certainly, the KOWEIT cancellers
were not meant to be used before January 1915; although one is
reported to have been seen with a 1914 date.
It has, fortunately, been possible to identify the office in the
Political Agency building which was used for postal business in
Shakespear’s time - and, probably, from the very beginning in 1904.
It is remembered as being the location of the regular Post Office from
1915 until April 1929, so its use spanned the whole quarter century of
the first Indian Post Office in Kuwait.

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From an original painting by Lieut. Col. H.R.P.Dickson, C.I.E.,
reproduced by courtesy of Mrs. V. P. Dickson, C.B.E.

The painting, done in about 1932, shows the Political Agency
building much as it was when Col. Knox rented it on August 13th,
1904, from Jasim bin Mohd. bin Ali ibn Asfur for Rs20 per month.
Knox subsequently incurred a bill of Rsl ,347 for repairs and alterations
and, with it, the displeasure of the Government of India; to such an
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