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'Lord Curzon's Notes on Persia' [436r] (872/1386)
The record is made up of 1 file (692 folios). It was created in c 1880-1891. It was written in English. 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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Yezd.
The manufactured goods of Yezd are silk and cotton, muslin, gauze, Imports from
shawls made of lambs’ wool, "barak," a cloth made of lambs’ wool, India and
and used for men’s coats, felt carpets, and carpets of good quality. London.
The natural products are: 1, Almonds, about 200,000 batmans (500
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
); 2, leather and chamois leather; 3, dyes; 4, henna; 5, wax ;
6, wool and cotton wool; 7, logwood; 8, pistachios; 9, opium, about
20,000 batmans (58 tons), value of case of 22 batmans 230
tomans
10,000 Persian dinars, or a gold coin of that value.
;
10, corn and other grains, 200,000 charvars (66,000 tons) a year; 11,
cotton, about 100,000 batmans a year (232 tons); 12, sugar, 50,000
cases (mostly French); 13, pounded sugar, 10,000 cases; 14, green tea
is not used at all at Yezd, but from 5,000 cases to 6,000 cases pass
through each year for Khorassan and Bokhara ; black tea, about 5,006
cases; Batavia tea, about 2,500 cases; pepper, cinnamons, tin, dyes,
glass and china, cotton piece goods, oil, manufactured silk goods, ivory,
candles, sulphur, tobacco, and copper.
It is estimated that the total annual value of the imports amounts Total value of
to about 1,000,0004, and the goods are nearly all English, articles of imports.
Russian manufacture not having yet penetrated so far.
Up to the present cloth, naphtha, candles, matches, tobacco, and
furs are the only imports from Russia, and that to a very small extent
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This file consists of letters, notes, and printed material on Persia compiled by George Curzon in the course of conducting research prior to the writing of his book: Persia and the Persian Question . The papers' contents and type vary considerably, but consists primarily of handwritten notes, some of which are organised roughly for individual chapters of the book. The rest of the file includes newspaper clippings, official reports, printed maps, and other published material on the history and geography of Persia. The official government reports are primarily government of India balance of trade reports, while published material consisted mainly of academic and non-academic papers on Persian archaeology by members of the Scottish Geographical Magazine and the history of the telegraph published by the Indo-European Telegraph Department.
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 692; 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.
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- Mss Eur F112/611
- Title
- 'Lord Curzon's Notes on Persia'
- Pages
- 1r:1v, 3r:6v, 10r:12v, 15r:15v, 21r:21v, 38r:41v, 43r:43v, 47r:57v, 59r:60v, 62r:67v, 70r:191v, 194r:286v, 410r:442v, 446r:466v, 471r:504v, 594r:599v,
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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