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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [89v] (185/1814)
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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46
PERSIA
who passed from the Indian territories of the Great Moo* u } •,
Kandahar into Eastern Persia; and conversely, even in the fi ^
half of the present century, and down to as late a date as 1873
when Captain H. C. Marsh was the last to perform the tip /
journey, there were several Englishmen, such as Captain Arti
Conolly (1830), Mr, Mitford (1840), and Sir Lewis Pelly (IgGO ) 1
who left Persia on the Afghan side and rode from Meshed • '
Herat and Kandahar, into British Hindustan. But what these
could do with impunity, although not unattended with danger i s
forbidden to a later age, and the eastern flank of Persia and the
countries beyond are accordingly a terra incognita, except to the
privileged members of Boundary Commissions, or to those who
have laboriously made their way hither from other and less known
directions.
We thus come, in our circuit of the Persian border, to the
southern coast-line, and to the ports of the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. ' I shall
Tin. Per- ' i;We occasion later on to describe the various trade routes
bSAA which lead therefrom into the interior of the country,
Abbas and I will refer any traveller who contemplates landing
at Bunder Abbas to that chapter. The main trade routes
starting from Bunder Abbas are those which proceed to Kerman
and Yezd; but for such as contemplate a westerly march from
Bunder Abbas to Shiraz I may say that, although that method
o entering 01 leaving the country seems now to have been entirely
abandoned, it was once—during the time when the Sefavi dynasty
ie c capital at Isfahan, and when first Ormuz and afterwards
Gombrun were among the greatest marts in the East—the most
trave e route in Persia, and has been minutely described by a
succession of famous voyagers, culminating in Tavernier and
It heie concerns me rather to notice the main southern channel
entry, which I have in an earlier portion of this chapter indi-
sw 11 ' Cated a§ SeC ° nd ° nl y in P°Pular use to the Resht line-
Tehcraii Vlz - that which starts from the Gulf at the landing-place
. (again I am loth to use the word port) of Bushire. Tins
route that is taken by all visitors coming from India, by all
an fh 1 anC ^ nd ^ an merc handise going as far north as Isfahan,
d by some of that which feeds Teheran itself; and it has been
in Pers’ 6 ^ cen tnry and is better known than any route
s traversed it in the opposite direction, and shall
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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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