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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [391v] (785/1814)
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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544
PERSIA.
reception at the hands of the Christians, from Mar fehimnn down
wards The establishment, whose headquarters are also at Lrumiah,
under' the charge of Canon Maclean, has grown so rapidly that
it now consists of a College for Priests and Deacons at Uruimah,
which, at the beginning of last year (1891), contained seventy
students, a High School for boys, with a membership of fifty, the
same for girls with twenty, and an establishment of the Sisters
of Bethany. There is also a High School at Superghan, eighteen
miles north-east of Urumiah, with forty scholars, another at Ardi-
shai with the same number, and seventy-two vi age sc ools in
Persia and Turkey combined, with a total scholars list of nearly
fifteen hundred. There are five English clergymen engaged m the
work one of whom, the Rev. W. Browne, under circumstances of
great peril and prHation, spent the winter of 1887-1888 in Mar
^himnn’s village of Kochannis, and was thereby instrumental m
preventing a massacre of the Christians by the Kurds. In 1889 the
income of the Mission was one thousand pounds from subscriptions
and nine hundred from donations. ...
How far the laudable attempt to enable this archaic and inte
resting Church, which, in spite of persecution, ignominy, and
Results of desertion, has resolutely clung to its ancient faith, to stand
Missions again upon its own legs, is likely to succeed, or how far
regeneration can be kept divorced from organic and doctrinal
change, it is as yet too early to determine. There are some who
cling to the belief that reunion between the Anglican and Syrian
Churches is possible. There are others, and they are perhaps the
wiser, who look to education and moral nurture as the true field of
missionary enterprise among these peoples, and who either care little
for or have not much hope of, ecclesiastical communion or eccle
siastical reorganisation. One thing is certain, that immense benefit
has already resulted to the Christian populations both of Persia and
Turkey from the labours of the various missionary bodies, American,
French, and English. Persecution is much rarer; disabilities have
been removed; education, for which the Nestorians, even in the
wild, mountainous districts, clamour with avidity, has rendered
them docile, law-abiding, and industrious. They are a warm-hearted
people, prone to hospitality, fond of festivity, and neither so preco
cious nor so crafty as the Armenians. On the other hand, they are
very quarrelsome amongst themselves, are avaricious of money, and
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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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