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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [667r] (1350/1814)
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 SOUTH-WESTERN PROVINCES 309
great mound, brought so little to light, and left the larger spoil
for a later worker in the same field. This was the Frenchman,
M. Dieulafoy, who, having previously visited Persia in 1881—82
with his versatile wife, who became the historian of their travels, 1
and having inspected the mounds of Susa, returned in 1884, with
the permission of the Shah and the assistance of the French Govern
ment, to prosecute investigations upon a large and scientific scale.
The results of these labours have been given to the world in lite
rary shape by the explorer and his wife j 2 their visible outcome is
proudly displayed in a salon of the Mu see du Louvre at Paris.
It is at a distance of fifteen miles in a south-west direction from
Dizful that the prodigious mounds of Shush, or Susa, stand up
Mounds of against the sky. They are situated on the left bank of the
Susa little river Shaur (originally Shapur), which rises at no
great distance to the north and flows in a deep, narrow bed below the
Tomb of Daniel, and between the larger rivers Ab-i-Diz (Eulseus),
six and a half miles distant on the east, and the Kerkhah (Choaspes)
one and a half mile distant on the west. The latter river divided
the populous quarter of the ancient city from the citadel and palace.
The entire circumference of the mounds is from six to seven miles.
They consist of three levels : the lowest conceals the remains of the
ancient city; the second, which is a rectangular platform two and a
half miles round and 72 feet high, was the fortified enceinte that
contained the palace; the uppermost, 120 feet in height, 1,100
yards round the base, and 850 yards round the summit, was the
citadel, and is still known as Kaleh-i-Shush.
M. Dieulafoy discovered that the palace of Darius had been in
the main destroyed by fire, and that upon its ruins another and
more splendid edifice was raised, over a century later, by
M. Dieula- 1 7 . . * ^
foy’s dis- Artaxerxes Mnemon (405-359 B.c.). Of this edifice there
is a fancifully restored model by M. Dieulafoy in the
Louvre. 3 The principal relics of the original fabric that were
1 La Perse, la Chaldee et la Susiane, 1887.
2 Mme. Dieulafoy, A Suse ; Journal de fouilles, 1888 ; M. Dieulafoy, IJAcropole
de la Suse, 1890; Perrot and Chipiez, Histoire de VArt, vol. v. p. 757 et seq.
3 The Hall of Darius and Artaxerxes at Susa (for it appears probable that the
edifice was to a large extent a restoration of the older building) seems in shape
and design to have been almost a facsimile on a larger scale of the Hall or Throne
Room of Xerxes at Persepolis. There were three porticoes with twelve columns
each, of the simple order of Achsemenian capital. The central hall contained
thirty-six columns with the complex or triple bull-headed capital, of which
M. Dieulafoy transported a magnificent specimen to the Louvre.
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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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