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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [75v] (157/1814)
The record is made up of 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios). It was created in 1892-1924. It was written in English, Urdu and German. 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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18
PERSIA
1800-1891 A.D.
Capt. Puschin, 1877
M. and J. Dieulafoy,
A. Nikolsky, 1885
Mme. C. Serena, 1877-
1881-6
J. R. Preece, 1885
78
E. Stack, 1881
Hedin Sven, 1885
K. D. Kiach, 1878
Gen. Gasteiger Khan,
J. D. Rees, 1885
Dr. G. Radde, 1879-80
1881
Dr. A. Rodler, 1885
Gen. Grodekoff, 1880
(Col.) H. L. Wells, 1881-
Capt. A. C. Yate, 1885
Gen. Petrusevitck, 1880
91
G. Bonvalot, 1886
Gen. A. H. Schindler,
E. Orsolle, 1882
T. Stevens, 1886
1877-91
H. Moser, 1883
H. Binder, 1886
G. Riederer, 1879-81
S. G. W. Benjamin,
Col. A. Le Messurier,
A. Laessoe, 1880
1883-5
1887
Col. C. E. Stewart,
A. Riley, 1884
Lieut. R. E. Galindo,
1880-91
Col. M. S. Bell, 1884
1887
E. O’Donovan, 1880
Capt. R. H. Jennings,
Lieut, n. B. Vaughan,
A. Condie-Stephen,
1884-5
1888-91
1881-5
Fr. Houssay, 1885
J. T. Bent, 1888
H. de Windt, 1888
M. von Proskowetz
1888
Comte de Sabran, 1888
E. G. Browne, 1888
Capt. F. It. Maunsell
1888
H. F. B. Lynch, 1889
Dr. P. F. Traubenberg-
1889
Author, 1889-90
Major H.O. Sawyer, 1890
Mrs. Bishop (Miss
Isabella Bird), 1890
into
periods
A few remarks about some of the names occurring in the above
tables may not be out of place, whether as explaining their sequence
Division or( ^ er °f time, or as facilitating a classification in order
of merit. In the early centuries immediately succeeding
the Mussulman conquest, we have but few records of
Persian travel, though we may be grateful that the piety of some
pilgrims belonging to various persuasions, such as Pabbi Benjamin,
the Spanish Jew; Ibn Batutah, the Moor of Tangier; and the
Catholic Friars William de Rubruquis and Odoricus di Pordenone,
impelled them to perambulate much of the East. Almost simul
taneously with these the great figure of Marco Polo passes, none
too slowly, across the stage. At the latter end of the fifteenth
century, the commercial pre-eminence of Venice is attested by the
appearance upon the scene of a number of A 7 enetian merchants or
grandees; just as a century later the expanding mercantile
ambitions of England are represented by a similar batch of British
pioneers, opening up trade routes respectively in the Morth and
South. An example already set in the fifteenth century by the
Spanish envoy Don Buy di Clavijo—who kept an invaluable
record of the mission upon which he was sent by Henry III. of
Castile to the Court of Timur at Samarkand—is followed in the
seventeenth century by the ambassadors who flocked to the capital
of the illustrious Shah Abbas at Isfahan from the crowned heads of
Europe. The brothers Sherley, and Sir Thomas Herbert, who ac
companied Sir Dodmore Cotton, Ambassador from Charles I., and
wrote by far the most amusing work that has ever been published
on I ersia, represent the British point of view. Don Garcias de
* Va ’ Philip III., is the official mouthpiece of Spain;
Adam Clean us keeps the record of the Embassy from the Duke of
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These two volumes are George Curzon's own personal annotated copies of both volumes of his book Persia and the Persian Question , which was published in 1892. Alongside the volumes are various loose papers relating to Persia [Iran], consisting of the following: received correspondence; newspaper cuttings; publishers' press releases; cuttings from various booksellers' catalogues; various journal and magazine articles; two items of printed official British correspondence; several prints of photographs and sketches; and a few handwritten notes by Curzon.
In most cases these papers, which range in date from 1892 to 1924, relate to the chapters in the book where they were originally inserted, suggesting that they were kept by Curzon with the intention of using them to inform a revised edition of the book.
Of particular note among the small amount of correspondence are two letters received by Curzon in 1914 and 1915 from retired schoolmaster and Islamic scholar Sayyid Mazhar Hasan Musawi of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India (ff 5-9 and ff 44-53). These letters, which are written in Urdu and are accompanied by English translations, discuss in detail several inaccuracies found in the Urdu version of Persia and the Persian Question .
The various prints of photographs and sketches, which were originally inserted into volume two, are of different locations in the Gulf region. Several of these appear to have been produced in preparation for the publication of the second volume of John Gordon Lorimer's Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Oman and Central Arabia (i.e. the 'Geographical and Statistical' section) in 1908, as they are identical to the versions found in that volume.
Also of note among the loose papers are an illustrated article from Country Life dated 5 June 1920, entitled 'The People of Persia' (ff 36-37), and a printed family tree of the Shah of Persia [Aḥmad Shah Qājār], produced in preparation of his visit to Britain in 1919 (f 233).
Volume one of Persia and the Persian Question contains a map of Persia, Afghanistan and Beluchistan [Balochistan], which is folded inside the front cover (f 1).
The German language material consists of a publisher's press release for two books authored by German archaeologist Ernst Emil Herzfeld (ff 29-30).
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- 2 volumes with inserts (898 folios)
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Foliation: this shelfmark consists of two physical volumes. The foliation sequence commences at the first folio of volume one (1-463), and terminates at the last folio of volume two (ff 464-898); 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. Each volume contains a large number of loose leaves, which have been foliated in the order that they were inserted into the volume; for conservation reasons, these loose folios have been removed from the volume and stored separately. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers of the two volumes.
Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Mss Eur F111/33
- Title
- Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Questionby George Curzon, with Inserted Papers
- Pages
- 54r:135v, 147r:149v, 158r:180v, 183r:221v, 224r:224v, 227r:246v, 248r:257v, 259r:260v, 268r:362v, 364r:364v, 367r:388v, 390r:400v, 402r:416v, 419r:432v, 434r:444v, 448r:462v, 464r:471v, 475r:481v, 483r:513v, 516r:525v, 527r:544v, 546r:563v, 566r:598v, 600r:622v, 624r:656v, 658r:665v, 667r:675v, 678r:684v, 687r:688v, 691r:691v, 693r:693v, 695r:708v, 711r:721v, 724r:726v, 728r:729v, 731r:736v, 742r:742v, 746r:757v, 759r:761v, 763r:763v, 765r:765v, 772r:777v, 780r:789v, 793r:794v, 797r:809v, 811r:821v, 825r:840v, 843r:898v
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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