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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [92v] (191/1814)
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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52
PERSIA
Chalclaea to the great Iranian plateau, which he does not again quit
until he leaves Persia. Secondly, he passes through the important
and flourishing Persian cities of Kermanshah and Hamadan, for
accounts of which I must refer my readers to Chapter XVI., and
which are situated in exceedingly productive tracts of country.
Lastly, at Bisitun and at Tak-i-Bostan (four miles trom Kerman
shah) he encounters some of the most celebrated remains of Persian
antiquity ; and in the rock carvings, sculptures, and inscriptions
which look down upon him from the chiselled surface of the moun
tain-side, he both reads a tale of bygone splendour and observes
the most important historical document, albeit in stone, next to the
Damietta Stone, that has been discovered and deciphered in this cen
tury. Here again let me invite any inquisitive reader to read on.
I have now, at some expense of space, and at a greater expense
of previous trouble than many would imagine, completed the tour
of the Persian frontier, and have supplied to the in-
Summary . . i-ii
tending voyager miormatron which he will not find
collected in any other volume, but which I have judged to be indis
pensable to a work that claims to be one of general reference upon
the country with which it deals. I have shown how Persia can be
approached from the north, south, east, and west, and have indicated
the routes and the means of doing so. It remains only for me,
before concluding this chapter, to furnish that information re
garding outfit and equipment which is as necessary to a traveller
in the East as is a ticket upon a European railway.
lor the requisite equipment for caravan travelling in Persia I
cannot do better than refer my readers to Appendix I. of the second
Caravan volume of Sir C. MacGregor’s 4 Journey through Khorasan/ to
equipment ^ xiii# of the second volume of m E> Stack > s < Six Months
in Persia, and to Appendix C of Hr. Wills’s entertaining work, 1 In
the Land of the Lion and the Sun.’ Few persons will commence
caravanning in Persia who have not tried it elsewhere, and al
ready formed their own conclusions as to the desiderata of camp life.
The size of tents, the structure of beds, the irreducible minimum of
furniture, the provision of ammunition, the extent of the camp, the
canteen, are matters dependent partly upon the taste or purpose of the
traveller, partly upon the fashion of the day ; and any too definite
instructions might easily be found superfluous or might soon become
obsolete. The case, however, is different with the chapar rider, who
probably leaves England without the slightest idea of what lies before
im, and who may be saved great expense and annoyance by knowing
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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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