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'THIM DAYS IS GONE' [67r] (133/248)
The record is made up of 1 file (124 folios). It was created in c 1980. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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your Honour had decided the case I returned his envelope to the
’"ht " And what? " said the Judge, appalled, "did you say to
him? I simply said" replied the clerk "I am sorry. It was not
enough!"
Let us not be too quick to judge.
The thought occurs that, whatever defects the present (1985)
priestly regime in Persia may have, it has never been accused of
corruption.
I was intrigued to discover, on this my last visit to Birjand,
that a local sir d a r had apparently solved the problem of middle
age. I had never been able to visit him because of the boycott
of foreigners, but had annually enquired after his health, and
had annually been told "Thank God he is well and vigorous; his
eye is bright, his beard is red, he spends his days hunting’, and
several sons are born to him every year" (daughters don't count!)
On this occasion I was told, "He is very old, very holy, his
beard is long and white, he has divorced all his wives, and he
prays five times a day!" He had progressed - in one bound - from
youthful vigour to venerable sanctity, and had eliminated
entirely that tiresome period - middle age.
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A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career in the Royal Artillery, Rajputana, Sialkot, Persia, North West Frontier Province, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Kuwait.
Typescript with manuscript corrections.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 124; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Mss Eur F226/28
- Title
- 'THIM DAYS IS GONE'
- Pages
- 1r:124v
- Author
- Tandy, Maurice Patrick O'Connor
- Copyright
- ©Major M P O C Tandy
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