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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [835r] (1686/1814)
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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COMMERCE AND TRADE
535
of the mercantile jealousy that afterwards had such momentous
results.
The Russes are sorie that we doe trade into these parts. For wee
are better beloved than they are ; because they are given to be
drunkards, they are much hated by the people. It is to be wishe
that none should serve your worships in theese parts that oe given to
that kinde of vice; and that your chiefe agent and factor should be
able to rule and governe himselfe that no dishonestie shoulc e impu e
to him and us.
The fourth expedition consisted of Arthur Edwards, chief agent,
John Sparke, Lawrence Chapman, Christopher Eawcet, and Richar
Pringle, Arriving in Persia in August 1568, they found that a
change had come over the spirit of the scene. They received no help
in landing, in spite of the Shah’s former decree; Chapman, journeying
to Tabriz, found the market already overstocked by the competition
of Turks, Armenians, and Venetians ; in Kazvm no sale could be
procured; the king, notwithstanding his former affability, on the
strength of which 2,000 kersies had been ordered from England,
declined to take any cloth ; and the factors travelling in Gilan
found Turkish agents everywhere. It was but a poor consolation
that Chapman succeeded in extracting from Shah Tahmasp a
further decree which granted the English free passage tuougi
Gilan and all parts of Persia, ordered native assistance m the event
of shipwreck on the coast, and the safe custody and delivery of
goods in the event of the agent’s death, and conferred the rig t
to camel hire at the ordinary rate, to the protection of roadguards
the supply of quarters and victuals, and the purchase or erection of
The fifth voyage was fraught with even greater perils, anc was
more fatal to life than its predecessors. In the ‘ Thomas Bonaven-
ture,’ of seventy tons, there left Yaroslav, m July 1568, Thomas
Bannister, Lawrence Chapman, Geoffrey Ducket, Captain Lionel
Plumtree (the chronicler of the expedition), and others. On t leir
way down the Volga they were attacked by the Nagay Tartars,
who were only repulsed after a fierce fight, m which Bannister was
twice wounded. When at length they reached Persia, Ducket
made his way to Tabriz, where he stayed for two and a half years.
Bannister went up to Kazvin, where, finding the Shah m a most benign
mood, he succeeded in effecting a good sale and m securing most
of his requests, though he was unsuccessful m the attempt to
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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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