'Persia 1888. From Rishir to Bunder Abbas.'

Content

This volume is a report by Samuel Butcher, a superintendent and clerk in the Indo-European Telegraph Department, documenting the route from Rishir, a village near Bushire, to Bunder Abbas [Bandar-e ʻAbbās]. The report describes the different cities that Butcher went through on his way to Bunder Abbas. Each description contains information on supplies, water, fuel, cultivation, grazing and camping grounds.

Folio 2 of the volume contains a dedication from the author, Samuel Butcher, to George Curzon. The report was the property of Curzon.

The volume contains five lithographic A lithograph is an image reproduced from a printing plate whose image areas attract ink and non-image areas repel it. prints of drawings (folios 13, 16, 19, 21, and 25) and one map in a pocket at the end of the book (f 33).

Extent and format

1 volume (32 folios)

It is grouped into

'SHAH GIRAN, LOOKING SOUTH-WEST'

2 images

Ref: Mss Eur F111/70, f 13

'ZANGU MAMELAY, LOOKING NORTH IN THE MARZ HAFTAWAN VALLEY'

2 images

Ref: Mss Eur F111/70, f 16

'TOWN AND FORT OF GIRASH'

2 images

Ref: Mss Eur F111/70, f 19

'KUH KALA LAR, LOOKING N.-N. -W.'

2 images

Ref: Mss Eur F111/70, f 21

'NORTH OF PAS PAR DALUN CARAVANSARAI LOOKING E.-N.-E.'

2 images

Ref: Mss Eur F111/70, f 25

'SKECTH MAP TO ILLUSTRATE REPORT OF MR. BUTCHER'S SURVEY FROM BUSHIRE TO BANDAR-ABBAS DURING 1888.'

2 images

Ref: Mss Eur F111/70, f 33

Arrangement

The papers in the volume proceed in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates on a map with 33, 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.

Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

Mss Eur F111/70

Former external reference(s)

P15 S.A. No 6

History of this record

Date(s)

6 April 1888- 8 Jan 1894 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Travel writingReportsIran--Description and travel

Places

BushireBunder Abbas

People & organisations

Indo-European Telegraph Department

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