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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [134v] (275/1814)
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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132 PERSIA
whether I was more incensed at the treatment I had received
tickled at the illustration it afforded of Oriental tactics. ' ° r
The most amusing episode, however, was yet to come • f or
arriving at Meshed three days later I found the Governor-General
Report at 1 11 a great state of excitement, having been informed 1
Meshed the faithful Khan that the new British Vice-C 0nsu l had
appeared at Kelat with an armed retinue, had tried to force 3 '
passage, and had drawn his sword upon the guard! The latte
had gallantly performed their duty and had expelled the intruder 1 '
October 19 .—Before I left the neighbourhood I determined to
make one more effort to see the interior of Kelat. I knew from
Attempt to MacGregor’s book that, besides the two main entrances of
chmb the Argawan Shah and Nafta, there were other oatWnva
by which it could be entered ; and at Ab-i-Garm a
hunter was found who said that he knew one of these very well
but was afraid to conduct me himself. He had a nephew, however'
who would act as his substitute, and would appear in the morning
I need hardly say that at the appointed hour the nephew was not
forthcoming. That my presence in the vicinity of Kelat was
beginning to be regarded with some suspicion, was evident both
from this and from an incident which occurred that evening. As
I was discussing plans in the mud hovel with Ramzan Ali and
Gregory, I heard a scratching in the roof overhead, and, looking
up, detected a man, who, it appeared, had come from Kelat, with
his ear to a hole in the rafters, eaves-dropping. As no guide was
procur able, I decided to go without one. I had noticed in riding
down the valley to Kelat that there was one place where the other
wise unbroken parapet of the southern wall dipped, and formed a
V-shaped indentation, which seemed to be accessible from below
by one of the sloping natural buttresses that swell up against it
from the plain. Any future visitor to Kelat who has read this
description will not fail to recognise the spot, about halfway
down the valley. I was called at 3.30 A.M., the mules were laden,
and we all moved out of Issurcha at 4.30 on a black cold morning.
Sending the camp on to Vardeh from the Herbend-i-Jaur, I rode
down the valley for the last time, and leaving my horse at tbe foot
of the hills began the climb. It did not take long to mount the
stony skirts, though the slope was very steep; and I easily arrived
below the craggy battlements. Here the rock, the natural con
formation ot which is in wavy horizontal bands, parallel with the »
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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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