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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [852v] (1721/1814)
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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PEESIA
566
1,582 miles, of which. 214 are by caravan. The distance from
London to Tabriz, via Trebizond, is 5,176 miles, of which 520 are
by caravan. If we compare the Tabriz figures with the Trebizond
figures for 1889, as follows—
Trebizond Transit Trade
Tabriz. to and from Persia.
Total Imports
„ Exports
£ i £
. 853,891 Imports from England . . 574,040
. 389,456 ! Exports to England . . 36,100
Total Trade . £1,243,347
Total Trade , , £610,140
we see that nearly 70 per cent, of the Tabriz imports, and 11
per cent, of the exports, or half of the entire trade, is in British
hands, a result which appears even more satisfactory when it is
seen, as demonstrated in the chapter before referred to, that, in the
only fields where she seriously competes, Great Britain is practi
cally master of the field.
In the same period the figures of the Russian trade with Tabriz,
via Julfa, were returned as follows by the official ‘ Review of the
External Trade of Russia on her European and Asiatic Frontiers/
published at St. Petersburg : imports from Russia, 22,22(B. ; ex
ports to Russia, 120.035L
Two subordinate trade routes also find their objective in Tabriz,
One of these is the purely Russian line from the port of Astara, on
3 u , a Caspian, which is hardly as much used as its physical
Tabriz advantages would lead us to infer that it might be. The
Russian figures of trade by this route in 1889 were as
follows: imports from Russia, 52,404A; exports to Russia,
198,716Z.
The other is the
Levant
A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
route, via Aleppo and Mosul, from Alex-
4. Aiexan- andretta 011 the Syrian coast, which is still followed by a
dretta- few caravans. I have been unable to procure the figures
relating to the latter route, and they are probably not in
existence. They would not, however, be at all considerable. A
small traffic also exists between Baghdad and Tabriz via Suleima-
nieh, but this line scarcely deserves to be included among Persian
trade routes.
The second, or northern zone, has for its objective the capital
Teheran and the supply of the provinces which are fed from that
centre. Here the Russian monopoly of the Caspian and the pro
hibitory tariffs charged upon Russian railroads before reaching the
(
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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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