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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [381r] (764/1814)
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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deuce with a large commercial house in the City, who opened
direct communication by steamer with Trebizond. The first
experiment failed; but a second attempt, in which the English
goods were brought in transit through Constantinople, succeeded,
and this transit trade is said before long to have amounted to
1,000,000L At the same time cloth manufacture was introduced
into Persia by Mr. Armstrong, an Englishman, at the request and
cost of Abbas Mirza. Fulling mills were established at Khoi, and
spinning, carding, and weaving machines near Tabriz. After the
rupture between England and Persia consequent upon Mohammed
Shah’s expedition against Herat in 1888, this Anglo-Persian trade
collapsed abruptly ; and in the year 1839 an English traveller
wrote : c Of the British residents in Tabriz only three remain ; of
the British commerce I am not aware that there are any remains.’
The squabbles of diplomatists, and the humours of Courts do not,
however, permanently interfere with a trade well founded and
convenient to both parties ; and within a few years’ time British
imports were again to be seen in the ascendant in the bazaars of
Tabriz. There was the less necessity to adopt the long and arduous
overland route from Trebizond, because Russia for some time en
couraged international trade by allowing free transit through the
Caucasus, Poti being the port of debarkation usually resorted to on
the Black Sea. Under these conditions the value of imports and
exports for the province of Azerbaijan rose in theyears 1868, 1869,
and 1870 to the following high figures :—
1869
1870
1868
£1,575,776
901,218
£1,094,717
422,632 1
Imports . . £1,351,000
Exports . . 683,885
In explanation of these remarkably high figures of imports, it
must be remembered that the bulk of trade with Northern Persia,
both Russian and English, at that time entered the country by way
of Azerbaijan, the Russians not having as yet developed the Baku-
Enzeli route, and the English not having approached Teheran on
any large scale from the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
. The absolute command of
the market in cotton fabrics, possessed by Great Britain, is shown
by the following proportions of the totals above quoted :—
1870
£864,000
1869
1868
£1,123,211
£1,017,885
1 The great fall in the exports for 1870 was due to the lamentable famine of
that year. The growth and export of cotton all but collapsed.
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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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