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Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf [‎307r] (615/879)

The record is made up of 1 file (436 folios). It was created in 14 Oct 1891-Sep 1911. It was written in English, French 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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1909.] THE N
ATION. 61
TH, ELDER & CO.’S LIST
AUTUMN 6s. NOVELS.
By the Author of " The Waters of Jordan.”
THE PALADIN: as Beheld by a Woman of Temperament.
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A work that throws fresh light upon the career of Celes
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GREAT AND GREATER BRITAIN :
The Political. Naval, Military, Industrial, Financial,
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By J. ELLIS BARKER, Author of “Modern
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With 16 Illustrations. Sm. demy 8vo, 7s. 6d. net.
LONDON AT PRAYER. By CHARLES MORLEY.
Author of “ Studies in Board Schools,” &c.
A series of impressions of various places of worship in
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Ready October 12. With 2 Maps. Large Post 8vo, 6s. net.
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE CONGO :
The Pillage of the Congo Basin.
By E. D. MOREL, Hon. Sec. of the Congo Reform
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G. MANVILLE FENN. CLIVE FENN, H. J. A. HERVEY, and
others. Edited by Alfred H. Miles.
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True Stories of Courage and Heroism shown in Modern Life by
Women and Girls, by MARY E. WILKINS. E. EVERETT-GREEN,
ALICE F. JACKSON, &c. Edited by Alfred H. Miles.
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True Stories of real Peril by G. MANVILLE FENN, &c. Edited by
Alfred H. Miles.
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With cover design and original illustrations by George Fyffe-
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The Rose of Dauphiny. Philip L. Stevenson.
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Stolen Honey. Second edition. Ada and Dudley James.
Adventures of a Pretty Woman. Florence Warden.
Co-Heiresses. E. Everett-Green.
The Vortex. Fred Whishaw.
Tropical Tales. Dolf WYLLARDE.
Love Besieged. Charles E. Pearce.
Intimate Society Letters of the 18th Century.
By His Grace the DUKE OF ARGYLL, Author of ” Passages from
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a, autographs, and other interesting matter. 24s. net.
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gravure frontispiece and 16 full-page illustrations on art paper.
10s. 6d. net.
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half-tone illustrations, with tint, on art paper, including 4
coloured plates and 1 photogravure. Cloth, 25s. net.
The Appreciation of the Drama. Charles and
CAROLINE A. CAFFIN. In cloth gilt, with 16 illustrations.
7s. 6d. net.
A Child’s Guide to Mythology. Helen A. Clarke.
In cloth gilt, illustrated, 400 pages. 5s. net.
A Child’s Guide to Pictures. Charles H. Caffin.
In cloth gilt, 253 pages, fully illustrated. 5s. net.
Ballads of Brave Women. Alfred H. Miles. Large
crown 8vo, red limp, Is. net; cloth, gilt, 1s. 6d. net; paste grain,
gilt (boxed), 3s. net; Persian yapp, gilt top (boxed), 4s. net.
Drawing - Room Entertainments. Monologues,
Duologues, Dialogues, and Playlets for Home and Platform use.
By CATHERINE EVELYN, CLARE SHIRLEY, ROBERT OVER-
TON, and others. Edited by Alfred H. Miles. In crown 8vo, red
limp, Is. net; cloth gilt, is. 6d. net; paste grain, gilt (boxed),
3s. net; Persian yapp, gilt (boxed), 4s. net.
Cole’s Treasury of Song. A Collection of the most
popular songs, old and new. Edited by E. W. Cole. In crown
8vo, cloth gilt, 400 pages. 3s. 6d.
ABC of Collecting Old English Pottery. J. F.
BLACKER. Illustrated with about 400 line and half-tone illus
trations. In large crown 8vo, cloth gilt. 5s. net.
Quantities. George Stephenson, Author of " Estimating,”
" Repairs,” &c. In demy 8vo, cloth gilt. 7s. 6d. net.
The First Favourite Reciter. Edited by Alfred H.
MILES. Crown 4to. 6d. net.
Rambles of an Idler. Charles Conrad Abbott, M.A.,
in crown 8vo. 5s. net.
Home Occupation for Boys and Girls. Bertha
JOHNSTON. Small 8vo, cloth. 2s. net.
How to Train Children. Emma Churchman Hewitt.
Small 8vo, cloth. 2s. net.
Your Health I (A Book of Bright Toasts) Compiled by
IDELLE PHELPS. With coloured illustrations on each page by
Ellen Alden Knipe. 18mo. 2s. net.
Phazes. Mazes and Crazes of Love (as the Title
indicates). Compiled by MINNA THOMAS ANTRIM, with
coloured illustrations on each page by Clara Elsene Peck. 18mo.
2s. net.
Doscriptivo Catalogue sent on Application.
STANLEY PAUL & CO., CLIFFORD’S INN, LONDON.

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The file contains miscellaneous papers, mostly printed publications, newspaper cuttings and photographs, relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

It includes a few items of correspondence, including letters to George Nathaniel Curzon relating to the Trans-Persian Railway, and Russian influence in Persia, and handwritten notes by Curzon on topics including arms traffic in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and the Trans-Persian Railway.

The file also includes copies of printed publications relating to Persia, including: three pamphlets on Lake Urmi [Urmia] in North West Persia, by Robert Theodore Günther (two of which include duplicate copies of a map of the Lake Urmi Basin, Mss Eur F111/356, f 132); a paper entitled ‘Paper to be read before the Indian Section of the Society of Arts, Thursday, May 8th. 1902. The Past and Present Connection of England with the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . By Thomas Jewell Bennett.’; and an article from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (Volume 5, Number 8, August 1909) entitled ‘Some Persian Folk-lore Stories concerning the Ruins of Persepolis.’ by Captain Charles Monk Gibbon, Royal Irish Fusiliers.

It includes in addition: two issues of a French pamphlet entitled Bulletin de l’Union des Associations des Anciens Élèves des Écoles Supérieures de Commerce (Reconnues par l’État) [ Bulletin of the Union of Associations of Former Students of the Higher Schools of Commerce (Recognized by the State) ], dated 20 January and 5 February 1904, which include articles by M E Peschier on the Baghdad Railway; and a German bookseller’s catalogue entitled Indica et Iranica Teilweise aus der Bibliothek von Viggo Fausböll Professor der indischen Sprachen an der Universität Kopenhagen I. Literaturen und Sprachen Indiens und Persiens [ Indica et Iranica Partially from the Library of Viggo Fausboll Professor of Indian Languages at the University of Copenhagen. Literatures and Languages of India and Persia ].

Folios to 250 to 370 of the file mostly consist of cuttings relating to Persia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from various newspapers and other publications, including: The Times , The Morning Post , The Spectator , The Civil & Military Gazette , The Times of India , and The Standard . The cuttings concern topics including: British interests in Persia; the Russian influence in Persia, including the Persian Government signing a concession to a Russian company for the construction of a cart-road between Kazvin, Resht and Enzeli, and Anglo-Russian rivalry in trade with Persia; the cholera epidemic in Persia; and the events of the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-11.

Folios 386 to 433 of the file consist of black and white photographs, including:

  • Three photographs in an envelope entitled ‘Photos of Koweit [Kuwait]’, of Mabarak-bin-Subah [Shaikh Mubārak bin Ṣabāḥ Āl Ṣabāḥ], Shaikh of Kuwait, and his youngest son Naser (f 387), the foreshore of Koweit (f 388), and the residence of the Shaikh of Koweit (f 389)
  • Two photographs in an envelope labelled ‘Photos by Parkin (assistant at Brit[ish] Resid[ency] Bushire / of Koweit Muscat. Bushire. Sent to me by Col[onel] Meade. April 1899.’ of Seyed Faisal bin Turki [Sayyid Fayṣal bin Turkī Āl Bū Sa‘īd], Sultan of Muscat (f 392), and Seyed Mohamed bin Turki, half-brother of the Sultan of Muscat (f 391)
  • A set of photographs of the following: the South entrance of the Governor’s house, Bushire (f 395); the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. and British Consulate, Muskat [Muscat] (f 396); the watch tower on Samana (f 397); Major and Mrs Leigh in Camp in Samana (f 398); Major and Mrs Leigh and Lieutenant Creagh [possibly George Washington Brazier-Creagh] at Mastar [Māster, Persia] (f 399); entrance of Muskat Harbour (f 400); town of Muskat from the harbour (f 401); Fort Jelali, Muskat (f 402); Fort Mahrani [Fort Al-Mirani], Muscat (f 403); and the British Vice Consulate at Mohamerah [Khorramshahr] (f 404)
  • Printed images of the following: the British Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Manamah, Bahrain (f 407); Shaikh Khaz’ al of Muhammareh [Shaikh Khaz‘al bin Jābir bin Mirdāw al-Ka‘bī] (f 408); the view at Haz’-adh-Dhabi, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (f 409); salt rocks on Qishm Island near Namakdan (f 410); the Hindiyan River near Zaidan (f 411); a parade of British and Persian troops at Rishehr, 1905 (f 412); two views of Muhammerah Town (f 413); a creek near Basrah [Basra] from the Shatt-al-’Arab (f 414); a crowd at Ras-al-Khaimah (f 415); the Foreshore, Kuwait (f 416); the Hanaini well, Bahrain Island (f 417); ancient tumuli, Bahrain Island (f 418); Kumzar (f 419); Lingeh (f 420); the Tis Valley in Persian Makran (f 421); the West end of Masqat Town [Muscat Town] with the Sultan’s Palace and Fort Mirani (f 422); and the Eastern end of Masqat Town, with the British Consulate on the left, and the Sultan’s palace on the right (f 423).
Extent and format
1 file (436 folios)
Arrangement

The folios from folio 4 to folio 251 are arranged in rough chronological order. The newspaper cuttings are mostly between folios 249 and 359, and the photographs are at the rear of the file (folios 386 to 433).

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 436; 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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