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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [94v] (195/1814)
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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56
PERSIA
bread and eggs, and sometimes a venerable fowl. Milk is not every
where procurable, as cows are not kept to any great extent; and I
Food and more often failed than succeeded in getting it. Goat’s milk is
cookmg on w i 10 i e more common than cow’s milk. A frying-pan
a tea-kettle, and a teapot must be carried, and can be bought in any
Persian bazaar. Japanned plates and drinking cups, egg cups, knives
and forks, and a small Etna spirit lamp, should be brought from Europe
(Baku). Tinned meats, soups, and biscuits can now be procured at
European or Armenian shops in Teheran, Isfahan, and Shiraz ; but it
is a wise precaution to take them. Crosse and Blackwell’s tinned
soups are quite excellent, and, besides being easily prepared, are almost
a meal in themselves. Soup in tablets or powders are good in their
way and economise space, but require more trouble and time in cookimr
Sardines, potted meats, chocolate or cocoa, Liebig’s beef tea, and good
tea or coffee, are useful adjuncts, which should be procured in Europe
Lump sugar can be bought in the humblest Persian village. I nearly
always cooked my own dinner. Firewood is easily and cheaply pur
chased ; a couple of bricks make a respectable fireplace ; and, though
there is frequently no exit for smoke but the door, the situation has
compensations which you must have ridden eighty miles in the day to
discover.
A small medicine chest or case should be carried • and the maladies
Medicine a S ainst which the stranger must chiefly provide are fever,
diarrhoea, and dysentery. Chlorodyne and quinine form the
nucleus of any such medical outfit.
If the traveller be a sportsman he will of course accommodate his
armament to whatever game he proposes to pursue. If he is merely
Arms and voyaging along the recognised highways in order to see the
tion 1Uni country, I do not recommend him to carry gun and cartridges ;
_ as game cannot easily be got at without time and trouble, and
y hese implements will add greatly to the weight of his baggage. In
° • ? ? wa y P a rts theie is a great deal of game, and a sportsman
we 1 provided with introductions and equipped for the purpose might
make a successful expedition. Round Teheran all the best shooting is
m the hands of the Shah ; but I have no doubt that should any sports
man encounter one of the royal keepers while in pursuit of game, the
1 resent of a shilling to the latter would turn him into a willing and
competent beater There are tigers in the north, lions in the south and
"? ow an< I partridges everywhere ; and on every mountain
from L 6 fl 6 f ° Un , d , Wild deer ’ sheep ’ 0r g° at - of description,
I? m ° U ° n an<: ^ e ^ ex the gazelle. Wild bears are seen in
r urz range, ami wild boars along the southern rivers. The way-
Thf , haS r, 6thal intent uscmlly and wisely carries a revolver.
mere nowledge that he is armed acts as a deterrent upon robbery
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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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