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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [136v] (279/1814)
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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THE ROSS DEPENDENCY
3^5
Islands; and the sixth provides that “ the Governor is, and shall be
deemed always to have been, authorized and empowered to make and
. execute, in Our name and on Our behalf, grants and dispositions of any
Lands which may lawfully be granted or disposed of by Us within the
Dependencies.
Some points of interest will be noted. The British Settlement Act is
not invoked, though the islands and territory named were already part
of the British Dominions : Captain Cook had taken possession of South
Georgia in 1775 ; Captain William Smith had landed on King George Island
and taken possession of the South Shetlands in 1819 ; Captain George
Powell did the same for the South Orkneys in 1821 ; and Captain Biscoe
for Graham Land in 1832 . The Letters Patent of 1908 named these lands,
with the Sandwich Islands ; but did not cover anything else in the sector
specified, which comprises indeed the southern extremity of South America.
The extension of British rule over the area shown in the figure dates
from 1917. On March 28 in that year were issued Letters Patent, passed
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, providing for the further
Definition and Administration of certain Islands and Territories, including
“ Graham Land, otherwise known as Graham’s Land,” as Dependencies
of the Colony of the Falkland Islands.
The preamble recites that doubts have arisen as to the limits of the
groups of islands . . . and “ it is expedient that provision should be made
for the Government, not only of these islands and territory, but also of
certain other Our islands and territories adjacent thereto as Dependencies
of Our Colony of the Falkland Islands.”
Thereupon it is declared that these Dependencies “ shall be deemed
to include and to have included all islands and territories whatsoever”
between 20 ° and 50 ° W. south of 50 ° S., and between 50 ° and 8 o° W.
south of 58 ° S.
These Letters Patent of 1908 and 1917 were published in the Govern
ment Gazette of the Falkland Islands, but not in the London Gazette, so
that the above details are not quite easily found. We are indebted to
the courtesy of the Colonial Office for the loan of printed copies of the
documents.
We understand that the technical difference between the procedure
by Letters Patent under the Great Seal and by
Order in Council
A regulation issued by the sovereign of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Privy Council.
is that
the first is a direct exercise of the Royal Prerogative, whereas the second
is an exercise of a power of the King authorized or controlled by Act of
Parliament. To discover why in two cases so apparently similar it was
desirable to follow different paths may attract some student of political
geography in search of a subject for a degree-thesis, but the difference is
perhaps more curious than important, and may even be accidental. The
accomplished fact is likely to be of the first importance, and welcome as
an augury of determination to leave nothing to chance in the enterprise
that the Colonial Office Committee has taken in hand, of fitting out Scott’s
old ship the Discovery for scientif c research in Antarctic waters.
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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
- 136r:139v
- Author
- Tod, John Kelso
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