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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [172v] (347/1814)
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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170
PERSIA
have had any cause to be so represented in Meshed, are Great
Britain and Russia; and in both cases the appointment is quite
recent, and was effected under circumstances that had
Consuls in occurred a short time before my visit, and are worthy of
Meshed narr ation. It was Russia who took the initiative in the
latter part of 1888 . By the seventh article of the Akhal-Khorasan
Treaty of 1881 , she was entitled to keep agents at the Persian
frontier-posts. 1 But there was no mention therein of a Consul or
Consul-General; Meshed could not possibly be described as a
frontier-post, or as even remotely concerned with the Turkoman
question; and the Shah was known to be particularly averse to
any such intrusion at the religious capital of Khorasan. Both
Russia and Great Britain had for long maintained
native agents
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
at the latter place. But such British officers as had been specially
employed on political service in these regions, as, for instance,
General Maclean and Colonel Stewart, had been careful either to
reside elsewhere or to move from place to place, and had nevei
taken up permanent quarters in the capital, where they were
always assured that their residence would be attended with
personal risk.
Russia, however, had decided for some time that her interests
in Khorasan required direct and official representation in the city*
Accordingly M. Ylassof, Russian Consul at Resht, and
ment of M. a diplomatist widely known for his grasp of Persian
politics, was nominated Consul-General by the Czar, and
the Shah was informed that he must ratify the appointment. This
peremptory manner of proceeding was not calculated to soothe the
wounded feelings of the latter, and for some time the exsequatu'i
was withheld. Russia, however, is in a position on the north to
make it extremely dangerous for Persia to oppose any prolongec
or genuine resistance to whatever proposals she may threaten to
enforce, and accordingly, after a certain delay, the exsequat^ wa^
granted, and in the spring of 1889 M. Ylassof was installed a
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tions between the Russian and Persian authorities.’
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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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