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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [390v] (783/1814)
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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542
PERSIA
physician to the Vali-Ahd, or Heir Apparent, at Tabriz. Another,
Dr. Torrence, is well known in Teheran. The income of the Mission,
according to the latest published returns, is over 7,000L a year.
In addition to the American ministers and their wives or female
helpers, the organisation can boast of seventy ordained or licentiate
native priests, of 120 native lay missionaries, of thirty churches
and over 2,000 communicants, of 120 schools and 2,800 scholars.
It is pushed by all the means that an indefatigable propaganda
and large pecuniary resources can promote.
A number of Roman Catholic Chaldaeans had been for some time
settled upon the Salmas plain, to the north of Urumiah . 1 Alarmed
2 French P ros P ec l °f losing these adherents, owing to the
Catholics vigorous neighbouring crusade of the Americans, the
Papal College at Rome, urged by a very remarkable young
Frenchman, named Bore, who, having been sent out to Persia
on a scientific mission by a French society, became interested in
the Persian Christians, and developed a passionate missionary fer
vour—determined upon an energetic counter-effort, and sent out
a band of French Lazarists to take their part in the competi
tion for converts. The French Government has always patronised
this establishment, though it was not till the year 1858 that
the Primate of the Roman Chaldseans, with the aid of the
French Embassy at Constantinople, obtained a
firman
A Persian word meaning a royal order or decree issued by a sovereign, used notably in the Ottoman Empire (sometimes written ‘phirmaund’).
from the
Porte acknowledging his patriarchal supremacy. At the present
time the French missionaries have two stations in Azerbaijan—
one at Urumiah, in which place a Monseigneur or French bishop
resides ; the other at Khosrova, on the plain of Salmas, where the
Catholics have for long been in the ascendant. Their establishment
consists of seven priests and a nunnery of the Sisters of Samt
Vincent de Paul. In Turkey, but not in Persia, there is a
Dominican mission to the Papal Chaldaeans as well.
3 . Swiss About the same time a mission to the Nestorians
Protestants wag inaugurated by the Protestant Church of Basle.
1 At Dilman, in the Salmas district, to the north-east of Lake Urumiah, there
is a colossal Sassanian bas-relief sculped on a rock, which has been conjectured
to represent Ardeshir and Shapur I. receiving the submission of the Armenians.
(Texier’s I?Armenie, fyc., vol. i. pi. 40, and Flandin and Coste, Perse Ancienne,
vol. iv. pis. 204-5. Colonel Stewart also tells me of a rock-tomb 30 feet above the
ground, at a distance of hour from Suj Bulak on the road to Miandoab, where
a pillar carved in the cliff-face separates two doorways conducting into the
sepulchral chamber.
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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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- 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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