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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [382r] (766/1814)
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 NORTH-WEST AND WESTERN PROVINCES
527
also. Woollen goods to the value of from 30 : 00(H. to 40,000Z.
come from Bradford ; but a rather larger proportion (40,000/. to
50,000/.) hails from Austria and Germany, the bulk of these being
woollen cloths of stiff texture and lustrous surface, which are
manufactured in the former country. Tea to the value of 107,000/.
comes from London and Amsterdam, chiefly the former. Russia
sends half the glassware and crockery ; Austria and Germany the
other half. The two last-named countries share with France the
haberdashery, and with France and Italy the velvets and silks.
Bavaria supplies the gold lace and thread. Of the total of imports
above quoted for 1889, the proportions claimed by Russia and
other European countries are respectively as follows :—
From Europe
£792,340
From Kussia
£61,551
Roughly speaking, England may be said to take about 80 per
cent, of the import and 10 to 12 per cent, of the export trade.
The above figures represent the European import trade from Trebi-
zond, and the Russian import trade by the two routes of Tiflis and
Julfa, and, on a rather larger scale, via Ardebil, from the little
port of Astara, on the Caspian. European goods in small quantities
enter Azerbaijan from other quarters, viz. via Aleppo and Mosul
from Alexandretta, and via Suleimanieh from Baghdad, but the
returns of this traffic are not forthcoming.
If we turn to the component items of the export table, it is
not surprising to find that Russia, by virtue of her neighbourhood
Export an d the handy market thereby supplied to local produce,
trade claims a large preponderance—266,439/., as compared
with the 123,017/. of other countries . 1 Of the former total, by far
the largest item consists of dried fruits, raisins, apricots, and
almonds, which to the united value of nearly 200,000/. in 1890 (and
m 1888 of 222 , 000 /.) were exported from the plains of Urumiah
and Maragha by Russian Armenians through Ardebil and Astara,
for shipment to Baku. Of the latter, or European total, the largest
items are carpets, which to the value of 42,260/. were exported,
principally to England and America, and tumbaku, or Shiraz tobacco,
to the value of 36,290/., which goes to fill the hubble-bubbles in
The figures here quoted of Russian imports and exports are taken from the
British Consular Reports, and do not exactly tally with those given in the
official Reports published at St. Petersburg, where the total of Russian imports is
returned as 74,624Z., and of Persian exports to Russia as 318 7517
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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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