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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [846v] (1709/1814)
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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554 PERSIA
paid from the Indian establishment. No longer the employes of a
company, they safeguard the commerce ot a nation ; and the trade
reports which they send home with unfailing regularity once a year,
and which are published by the Foreign Office, afford the best
possible indication of the value of their labours, and of the extent
to which business has swollen under their fostering supervision.
The development of particular branches or channels of trade in the
present century will be noticed in the review of the modern com
mercial situation, to which I next turn. I shall consider the
historical retrospect in which I have indulged more than justified if
I have thereby persuaded any reader who has been patient enough
to follow me that Great Britain, by her traditions and her services,
has an inherited right to a commanding interest in Persian trade,
and that the claim which I advance on her behalf to retain it is no
offspring of national cupidity or desire for material aggrandisement,
but is a legitimate testament from a past of which we have no reason
to be anything but proud.
Part II 1
In proceeding from a retrospect of the past to a survey of the
present condition of Persian trade, we are confronted with an
Change in almost complete metamorphosis of physical conditions,
the scene ^ a ver ^ f pff erent cagt 0 f acto rs upon the scene.
With the exception of the single, or at the most the double, outlet
I he chief sources of icfereuce on the trade of Persia since the beginning' of
the present century are : A. Dupre (1808), Voyageen Perse, vol. ii. caps. Iviii., lix.;
J. B. Fraser (1822), Travels on the Shores of the Caspian, Appendix II. ; (Sir)
A. Burnes (1832), Travels into Bokhara, vol. iii. p. 356 ; J. H. Stocqueler (1832),
Tifteen Months’’ Pilgrimage, vol. ii. cap. i.; General F. It. Chesney (1835-7), Expe
dition to the Euphrates, vol. ii. cap. xviii.; Dr. 0. Blau (1858), Commercielle Znstdnde
Persiens ; Dr. H. Brugsch (1860-1), Iteise der h. Preuss. Gesandtschaft nach
Persien, 2 vols.; J. E. Polak (1865), Persien, das Land und seine Bewohner, 2 vols.
(Leipzig) ; (1873), Persien (Vienna); (1883), Notice sur la Perse au point de rue
commercial' Capt. M. A. Terentieff (1875), Russia and England in the Markets of
Central Asia (Russian); F. Stolze and F. C. Andreas (1874-1881),« Die Handelsver-
haltnisse Persiens ’ (Petermann’s Mittheilungen, 1885); A. Kitabji (1889), Etudes
Persanes ; Dr. P. F. Traubenberg (1890), Hauptverkehrswege Persiens ; and the
Diplomatic and Consular Reports in the Commercial, Annual, and Miscellaneous
Senes, published by the English Foreign Office, relating to Persia in o- e neral
and to the cities or ports of Trebizond, Tabriz, Resht, Astrabad, Meshed, Teheran.
Bushire, Mohammerah, and Bussorah.
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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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- Public Domain