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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [506r] (1024/1814)
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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FROM TEHERAN TO ISFAHAN
49
resemblance to the crown and brim of a European hat, which was
occupied by some of Ouseley’s suite. It would appear that in the
last eighty years not a step has been taken to arrest the march of
decay in these once elegant and beautiful structures. The Nemek-
dan, after tumbling almost to pieces, has been pulled down. The
Am eh- Klianeh is in the last throes of dissolution, the pavement
being broken, the decorations peeled off, the chambers defiled, and
the whole place open to any loafer to camp in, or any vandal so-
minded to destroy. Almost touching it on the eastern side is a
solitary pine, sole relic of the vanished pleasure-ground. Its tufted
crown waves like a funeral plume over the scene of departed
grandeur.
At a slight distance below the Aineh-Khaneh, the Zendeh Hud
is spanned by the second of the historic bridges of the Sefavi kings.
Pui-i- This is variously known as the Pul-i-Khaju, from the
Kimju. quarter of the city of that name; the Pul-i-Baba Rukn,
from a famous dervish named Pukn-ed-Din, who was interred in an
adjacent cemetery; the Bridge of the Guebres (Krusinski), because
it led to the suburb of Guebristan, and was built by Abbas II., in
order that the Guebres might not pass across the main bridge to
Julfa; and the Bridge of Hasanabad, because it led to the Bazaar
of that name in Isfahan, which was restored by the Governor of
Isfahan under Path Ali Shah, who also replanted an avenue, like
- the Chehar Bagh, from the bridge to the city. The Pul-i-Khaju
is shorter than the bridge of Ali Verdi Khan, being only 154
yards in length, owing to a contraction in the bed of the river,
which here flows over a ledge of rock. The structure consists, in
fact, of a bridge superimposed upon a dam. The latter is built of
solid blocks of stone and is pierced by narrow channels, the flow
\ in which can be regulated by sluices. This great platform is broken
on its outer edge, the stones being arranged in the form of steps
descending to the river-level. Upon the platform or dam repose the
twenty-four main arches of the bridge, which is of brick, and the chief
external features of which are four projecting two-storeyed hexago
nal pavilions, one at each corner, and two larger pavilions of similar
shape in the centre, a third storey being erected upon the roof of the
more westerly of the two. As in the case of the Julfa bridge, the
basement is pierced by a vaulted passage, running the entire length
of the bridge through the piers on the top of the dam, and crossing
the successive channels by stepping-stones six feet deep. The main
VOL. II. E
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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).
- Extent and format
- 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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