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Annotated Copy of Persia and the Persian Question by George Curzon, with Inserted Papers [702r] (1420/1814)
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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three getting drunk. Next the murderers sat two green-turbaned
seyids, descendants of the Prophet, whose personal repute and
illustrious descent lent a sort of balancing odour of sanctity to the
proceedings.
Before 7 a.m. on the morrow I was on shore with my baggage,
but the mules which had been ordered to convey the latter to the
TheMirza * ® 11821 ? were not forthcoming; while the engineer was
loafing about, waiting for instructions from the Mirza.
Arousing this worthy, I requested permission to proceed
at once in pursuance of his promise of the previous evening. I
cannot relate in detail the incidents that ensued; but I may
summarise them by saying that the next three hours were con
sumed in frivolous objections by the Persian, who had either re
pented of his premature amiability, or was frightened at the
responsibility, or thought the occasion too good a one to be lost
for demonstrating his own importance. He now protested that
he had no authority to act without direct orders from the Nizam,
that he could not look at my letters to the latter, because they were
another man’s property, and that he must have a formal guarantee
testifying to my identity and absolving him from blame. A long
time was spent in composing this ridiculous document, which had
to be torn up after all, when I found that the Mirza had inserted
in it an order to him from Messrs. Lynch to despatch the ‘ Susa 5 —
an ingenious attempt to inveigle them into a false position—and a
statement that the permission was only granted because I had
official business to transact with the Governor, which I had not.
It became necessary for me to adopt a more peremptory tone, and
to insist either on compliance or refusal. This brought the Mirza
to his senses ; but another long interval ensued while the revised
declaration was being drawn up, and a letter of explanation written
to the Nizam; and it was not till eleven o’clock that I found my
self on board the ‘ Susa,’ and an hour later that she started under
way. Exactly five hours had been consumed in the diplomatic
caracoles of the Mirza, upon whom I was sufficiently human to vow
vengeance if ever I arrived at Shushter.
At one stage of the morning’s controversy the mat-hut pre
sented an even more curious scene than on the previous evening.
Dramatis only were the same dramatis jpersonce present—the
per some Mirza evolving interminable excuses, the pair of respect
able but melancholy fratricides, the two holy men, and ourselves ;
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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)
- Physical characteristics
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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