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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [133v] (273/1814)
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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130
PERSIA
down as I rode through the gate, though how they
guessed my nationality when they never saw me or ha^” ^ ^
all when they were fast asleep, I did not needlessly V g Ve ,, Sllot at
asking. They added that a Russian had come to KelaTl by
and had beaten a Persian, and been beaten by them a ] year
started to come with 300 Turkomans in revenge • brntl ^
had marched out, and the Russian and the Turkoman* h j Wt
back again. They also asked me if it was true that tl 1 ,T7? ed
Sultan, the eldest son of the Shah, had put off the P 6S '
costume, donned English dress, and sailed from r,,,,-
London. I interrogated them about their existence and s , ^ ^
Kelat. They said that the water was very unhealthT^ a ‘
pregnated with naphtha, and that they suffered from it Tl'’ 1 '
also complained that, though they were to have been relieved f
three months, they had already been there for five and ,
that time had received no pay. I could not help feelff! ^
poor wretches, who were about as like what one ordin Jfr
fc ” l<,ier “ ‘ “ ste " n “ ger ' s J “ le f»
retuned wit], the newt thet the Khm SeZ?to t“
tie Khan ^ 6 G Ovemoi -Genera] of Meshed, and that if
«.n Z HIILT !‘T" hh ZZ r- Tli
f'nlrmol Qf , , . ’ proceeded to write a telegram to
betaff o 'r ’ lg him t0 intervieW the Governor on my
ever n fi ° Wlr6 ^ & ^ There ^ «ome difficulty, how-
Charnel V g "7 ^ t0 transcribe message into Persian
characters. Few of the lower orders know the Pefsian alphabet;
The iT -T 1 ' 1 * 6 & Iette1 ' the y hire a scrib e to do it for thenr
inflnene 7 SCnbe ° f Kelat was re Ported to be asleep under the
ened 'V' °P lum > b,l( I insisted upon his being severely awak-
in trl 1 > & ,. eng 7 116 a PPeared, and spent exactly half an hour
comnof r g deSpatch Whicl1 ft had taken half a minute to
Persian 1 i * t° return to my camp, leaving the
sns-eelto i 6 7 d 1 an answer arrived from Meshed ; but Gregory
- gg &ted, from a more profound knowledge of the national
supposed to the p lat is notorious, whether it be due, as is generallv
found the ponuHt ei T P ? ly ° r n0t ' Wben Cornel Baker was there in 1873 he
the garrison is invariably'e""rbp • i n't'' typhUS ’ and the Proportion of sick among
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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)
- Physical characteristics
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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