Letters written during LSA's tour of the Middle East, on subjects including: meeting the Emir Abdullah of Transjordan [later King Abdullah of Jordan]; conferences in Iraq; accounts of the over-ambitious schemes of 1st Lord Lloyd [former Governor of Bombay, India]; touring ancient sites; improving the Iraqi army; talks with King Feisal of Iraq; negotiations in the League of Nations with the Turks over Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq].