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Publications, Newspaper Cuttings, Photographs and Correspondence about Persia and the Persian Gulf [364r] (732/879)
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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REVIEWS.
81
‘ Recollections of an Old Mountaineer.’ By W. Larden. (London : Arnold.
1910. Pp. xv., 320. Illustrations. 14s.) To justify and make attractive a volume
of simple accounts of mountaineering holidays on well-known ground requires
a certain individuality of style. This author possesses that qualification, and
his book is pleasant to read, deeply appreciative of the natural beauties of Switzer
land, and instructive in mountain lore, whether on snow or rock, in winter or
summer.
‘ A Vagabond in the Caucasus.’ By Stephen Graham. (London : Lane.
1911. Pp. vii.,311. Illustrations. 12s. 6d.) Not only the Caucasus, but Moscow
and other parts of Russia find a place here. It is a book to dip into, taking an
incident or sketch here and there ; reading consecutively its chapters may leave a
somewhat disjointed impression, and one may confess to scanty interest in the
personal details. There is an appendix giving some little information for in
tending tourists.
' In the Rhone Country.’ By Rose G. Kingsley. (London : Allen. 1910.
Pp. x., 307. Illustrations. 10s. 6d.) This volume is well worth turning over
for the sake of a very beautiful series of photographs. The text by itself would
hardly justify the existence of the book. Private letters are a dangerous founda
tion on which to build a book ; they must be beyond the ordinary as regards
matter if they are to excuse even occasional grammatical lapses and the purely
personal impressions which are so apt to leave the casual reader unmoved,
ASIA.
Persian Travels.
' Wanderungen in Persien.’ Erlebtes und Erschautes von Hugo Grothe.
Berlin : Allgem. Verein fiir Deutsche Literatur. 1910. 6m.
An unpretending descriptive record of travel in Western Persia. Dr. Grothe
started from Baghdad eastward across the frontier and the Pusht-i-Kuh to
Kerman-shah. After excursions to view the ruined sculptures of Tag-i-Bostan
and the inscriptions of Bissutun, he proceeded to Hamadan, the “ City of Gardens,”
and from thence to Tehran, the capital, where he had an audience of the Shah and
paid a visit to a sitting of the Mejliss. The most important chapter treats of the
general subject of Russian and British policy in Persia, in which full credit is
given to the beneficial results of our telegraph lines and consular officials, our
missions, hospitals and schools. There is, however, little that is new or striking
in the author’s comments and observations, though his personal adventures are
now and then interesting. There is a fairly good collection of photographic
illustrations.
Ptolemy’s Geography of Eastern Asia.
Asiatic Society Monographs, No. 1. ' Researches in Ptolemy’s Geography of Eastern-
Asia (Further India and Indo-Malayan Archipelago).’ By Colonel G. E. Gerini,
m.r.a.s. Published in conjunction with the R.G.S. London : 1909.
The nucleus of this monograph is an article published in 1897 in the Journal of
the Royal Asiatic Society, which has grown in the interval from 26 pages to close
upon 1000, and embodies the work and devotion and thought of a lifetime.
In fact, if the monograph had no other value, its value would be great as a model
of constant and energetic pursuit of a purpose under difficulties and of vigilant
and ingenious collection and appraising of odd scraps of evidence. This
evidence is given in some 700 pages of the book, and will be almost appalling to the
ordinary reader in the variety and unfamiliarity of the authorities placed under
No. I.—JANUARY, 1911.] G
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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).
- Physical characteristics
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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