'Memorandum on the Attrek, or Northern, Frontier of Persia' [‎113v] (2/50)

Content

The memorandum concerns Persia's northern frontier with Russian Turkestan along the Attrek [Atrek] River valley. It outlines Russian activities in the region (e.g. troop movements, fort construction, and meetings with local chieftains), along with British and Persian diplomatic responses to these activities; this includes British efforts to prevent Persia from ceding the region to Russian control. It covers British suspicions that the Russians are encroaching on Persia's northern border, and attempting to draw the local Turkoman tribes away from their relations with Persia.

The memorandum is illustrated with a number of map sketches, which show a number of different interpretations of the Persian-Russian frontier:

• Captain George Campbell Napier's Map 1876. Denoting supposed Persian border line (f 116);
• Arrowsmith Map. 1834 (f 117r);
• Zimmerman's Map. 1841 (f 117v);
• Vambery's Map 1863 (f 117v);
• Russian Map 1863 (f 119r);
• Arrowsmith Map 1872 (f 119v);
• Walker's Turkestan. 1873 (f 120r);
• Russian Map 1873 (f 122r);
• Kiepert's Turkestan 1876 (f 135v).

The memorandum includes a number of brief insertions in French; these insertions consist of recollections from diplomatic conversations, which have occurred in relation to Persia's northern frontier.

Extent and format

1 file (25 folios)

Arrangement

The file consists of a table of contents (folios 114-115), followed by a map (folio 116), which is in turn followed by the body of the memorandum itself (folios 117-137).

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at f 113, and terminates at f 137, as it is part of a larger physical volume; 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 and French in Latin script

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