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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [77r] (160/1814)
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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some time enshrined the corpus of available geographical know
ledge about the country; and in the journeys and explorations of
several English or Indian officers, notably Grant, Pottinger, Christie,
and Monteith. Almost simultaneously, the French Mission of
General Gardanne, the emissary of Napoleon, canied with it
a train of emulous writers, amongst whom we may notice the
names of Truilhier, Trezel, Tancoigne, and Dupre, the latter being
responsible for the best book. Sir Harford Jones, in 1809, penned
the record of his own energy and misfortunes, and was accompanied
by Morier, who on this occasion, and again two years later, when
returning in a similar capacity with Sir Gore Ouseley, utilised his
opportunity to publish two w T orks of considerable authority and
careful research. No mission ever had more plentiful historians
than that of Ouseley, for, in addition to Morier s second work, its
record was written by Sir W. Ouseley, brother to the ambassador,
and a great Oriental scholar, and by W. Price. In 1817, Kotzebue
penned the narrative of the Russian Embassy of Count Y ermoloff.
In 1835, Colonel Stuart came out as secretary to Sir Henry
Ellis, and left an interesting picture of the administration of
Mohammed Shah. Later, Sir Justin Sheil, British Minister,
assisted his wife in the compilation of a serviceable and informing
work. The Comte de Gobineau utilised a diplomatic residence at
Teheran in the interests of France to issue more than one learned
volume ; while the junior branches of the various legations have
been creditably represented by the Baron de Bode, secretary to the
Russian Legation, who described an interesting journey to Bakhtiari
Land in 1840-1 ; by Eastwick, who filled an analogous position
in the British Legation twenty years later; and by M. Barbier de
Meynard, whose translations and annotations of Oriental writers
have placed him in the front rank of French scholars.
Attracted by the increasing noise that Persia was making
in the Western world, a number of English travellers of indepen
dent means selected that country, from the first decade of the
century onwards, as the arena of geographical or archaeological
research, and of subsequent literary enterprise. Scott Waring,
Buckingham, Sir R. Ker Porter, and J. Baillie Fraser, belong to
this class in the first half of the century, the last-named having
found in Persia a literarv mine which was not exhausted until he
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had given several admirable books of travel, as well as a number
of romances, to the world. Another class of writers has been
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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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